Posts tagged C Street
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Speedy C Street NE will become more transit- and cyclist-friendly
After several years of design and redesign, DDOT finally seems ready to transform C Street NE from a commuter mega-street to a calmer road with more space for transit, walking and biking. This month DDOT presented the final design for the road. Keep reading…
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On C Street they paved a pair of tracks, put up a parking lot
The DC Streetcar expansion is still up in the air, and the current H Street line and Benning Road extension are only a small fraction of the extensive system that once ran through the region. Nonetheless, they can still evoke memories of the glory days of streetcar travel in the region, which fostered quirky things like the tiny C Street tunnel that went under Senate Park. Keep reading…
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Huge improvements for safety, cycling, and walking on C Street NE are back on (cycle) track
C Street NE near RFK Stadium is a mega-street with fast-moving traffic. A project to calm traffic and make it better for walking and bicycling is moving forward, after transportation officials almost cut back the project but reversed course in the wake of community uproar. Keep reading…
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Events: Safer biking, better connectivity, and…tacos!
Making it easier to get from Columbia Heights to Brookland, making Capital Crescent safer, art and taco bike ride, bike hack night, and more in events this week. Keep reading…
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Plans envision a “green street” for C Street, NE
Capitol Hill residents recently reviewed traffic-calming options for C Street, NE including separated bike paths (“cycle tracks”), reducing lanes, bulb-outs, “chicanes” where the road curves from side to side, reconfigured intersections, medians, stormwater bioretention araes, and more. C Street, NE through northeastern Capitol Hill serves… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Happy New Year
A growing city; Charles County sprawlway; The ridership is right; C for yourself; Busted!; Is that multi-state inter-agency cooperation I see?; What’s driving business?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Things are going very Wells
Give me a C: Councilmember Tommy Wells (Ward 6) has endorsed the C Street, Northeast neighbors’ suggestion to narrow C west of RFK Stadium. Previously: we looked at C Street proposals. Keep reading…
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Positive resident activism: C Street, NE
Like Dupont’s 15th Street and many others around DC, C Street, NE in the Rosedale section of Capitol Hill is a neighborhood street that traffic engineers turned into a high-speed traffic raceway. After crossing the Anacostia on East Capitol Street, the freeway-like road passing RFK Stadium dumps traffic onto C Street. According to the 2005 Capitol Hill transportation study… Keep reading…