Posts tagged 15th Street
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Breakfast links: Good news for our streets
DDOT plans contraflow lane on 15th: After numerous public meetings and much listening, DDOT has decided to implement “Alternative 5” on 15th Street between Massachusetts and New Hampshire Avenues. (WashCycle) This alternative adds a standard northbound bicycle lane and a southbound contraflow lane between the parked cars and the sidewalk. Here’s… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Enhancements and losses
Bicycle safety enhanced: Among the many controversial items at Tuesday’s legislative session (like parking meters, bar hours, and handgun safety), the Bicycle Safety Enhancement Act sailed through the DC Council quickly and quietly. Once re-passed on second reading and once Congress gets its chance to meddle, motorists will have to pass cyclists with at least three feet… Keep reading…
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Doubts about cycle track, concerns about process
DC’s bicycle leaders aren’t as sanguine as I was about DDOT’s fifth option for 15th Street. WABA’s Eric Gilliland wonders if there’s enough room for the contraflow lane: Keep reading…
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DDOT proposes new option with cycle track for 15th Street
When a group of residents on 15th Street asked DDOT to find ways to slow traffic on their “urban highway” of a street, DDOT planners created four alternatives. 15th street is much wider than necessary, with four northbound lanes that suddenly funnel into only one after New Hampshire Avenue. One neighborhood historian told me that this road was meant to connect to the east-west… Keep reading…
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Speaking of circles: 15th and New Hampshire
Monumentality suggests a circle (technically a modern roundabout) for the intersection of 15th, New Hampshire, and Florida Avenues NW, at the bottom of Meridian Hill Park. The far-too-wide 15th meets these avenues in a giant intersection with too many lanes, long crossing distances for pedestrians, and hazardous bicycling. How about a circle? Keep reading…
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Pedestrian safety: Fines? Lights? Two-way streets?
Pedestrian safety is barnstorming through the discourse in neighborhood after neighborhood. Last night, residents of Dupont Circle debated making 15th Street two-way. This morning, the DC Council held a hearing on a bill to raise fines for failing to yield to pedestrians. And in Chevy Chase, debate is raging over a special pedestrian signal at Connecticut and Morrison. Keep reading…
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Support two-way 15th Street today
This evening is the DDOT public meeting about 15th Street. It’s from 6-8 pm at the 15th Street Presbyterian Church, 15th and R. The format will be an “open house” style, where you can peruse the materials and leave comments but don’t need to sit through a whole long meeting; there will be presentations at 6:15 and 7:15 about the options. Keep reading…
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Needed: leadership and management at DDOT
If there’s one constant among DC neighborhood activists and officials, it’s that everybody complains about DDOT. Part of this is inherent in being the transportation agency: as Chris Ziemann said at Wednesday’s Dupont ANC meeting, everyone is a consumer of DDOT’s product, the streets. Keep reading…
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Are Maryland drivers the “devil incarnate”?
Jim Graham says so. Whether excessive hyperbole or not, his comment led to an ABC News story about speeding commuters, especially on 15th Street, and even a mention of the proposal to make it two-way. Via DCist (who thinks Graham was spot on). Keep reading…
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Another good project and annoying press
DCist covers DDOT’s proposal to convert 15th Street to two-way operation which I covered when it was first announced in January. DDOT presented it to the Council yesterday. Keep reading…