At a recent ANC meeting, DDOT announced plans to speed up the West Virginia Avenue (WVA) road diet completing the 2-phase project about a year earlier than originally announced. Work will start in the spring of 2021 and finish up by summer. Phase 2 was to complete in 2022, but now will also be built this year.
The project will remove a travel lane from WVA in order to add the two 8' wide PBLs. Phase I will build the northern section from Mt. Olivet to New York Avenue (NYA) and Phase II will build south of there to Florida Avenue where it will connect to the new bike lanes on that road. In the middle, DDOT plans to add bike lanes heading west on Mt. Olivet. And someday they plan to build a bike trail along NYA, though maybe not as far east as WVA.
Very exciting stuff. As a former rail road corridor, WVA is a nice flat route making it perfect for biking and bike lanes have been something DC aspired to have there since at least the 2005 plan. They're calling these protected bike lanes, but it's unclear what the protection will be (barriers? flexposts? flexposts and curb stops?). Regardless it will be a step up from what's there now.
Between Florida and Mt Olivet there is only one travel lane each direction, with parking on both sides. Are they removing parking on one side in that section? I don't see how there would be room otherwise.
Posted by: Purple Eagle | February 11, 2021 at 10:24 PM
The Mt Olivet PBLs are nice, especially since the Brentwood Parkway lanes are already complete. Starting to look like a network!
Posted by: Jacob | February 23, 2021 at 08:48 PM