Posts tagged Ddot
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Breakfast links: Look out for drivers
Look both ways; DC and Maryland drivers worst?; Parking under the Mall?; Trail connected to bridge; Trash bin case dumped; Managing Tysons transportation; Highway Trust Fund dwindles; And…. Keep reading…
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Four big questions for a Georgia Avenue streetcar
As plans crystallize for a north-south streetcar in DC, four big questions will drive what the line ultimately looks like: How will the line snake through the center of the city? Will it reach Silver Spring? Will there be dedicated lanes, and if so, where? Is there any money to actually build anything? Planners from the District Department of Transportation (DDOT)… Keep reading…
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Honor Frederick Douglass and DC with a worthy new bridge design
The Federick Douglass Bridge, which carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia, will soon be rebuilt. It’s on one of DC’s main axes from the Capitol and honors a singular champion of the rights of all people regardless of race, ethnicity, or sex. But the result, so far, is an anticlimactic highway bridge that hunkers down instead of soaring. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Triggers
Maybe no tax cuts?; Eventual traffic calming; No streetcar referendum; Alexandria stems flooding; Chickenshare; #1 for walking; Women attacked on Met Branch; See the Blue Line; Florence and the interchange; And…. Keep reading…
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Maryland Avenue will get safer, but must someone always get hurt before temporary fixes can happen?
After a driver hit a DC librarian on a dangerous stretch of Maryland Avenue NE, DC will install temporary barriers to expand sidewalks at the corners: Keep reading…
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Four tweaks to further improve the First Street NE cycletrack
Cycletracks are such new additions to the repertoire of American street infrastructure that the most progressive DOTs around the country are still experimenting with how to best design them. DC’s latest experiment, on First Street NE, is a still-evolving laboratory of design options. Here are four ideas to make this excellent bike facility work even better. Keep reading…
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Next up for NoMa bicycling: Fill in the gaps
Last Month, Mayor Gray and DDOT cut the ribbon on DC’s newest protected cycletrack on First Street NE in NoMa between G and M Streets. This is a part of the Metropolitan Branch Trail (MBT), which will eventually connect Union Station to Silver Spring. Next, they plan three short extensions to fill in some important gaps. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Political shake-up
Beyer wins in the 8th; Cantor’s swan song; Carol Schwartz returns; Bowser would keep Henderson; When will Maryland Avenue get safer?; Four alternatives for North-South streetcar; Traffic? What traffic?; CaBi helped bike businesses; And…. Keep reading…
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Will DC’s streetcar weary council embrace the ambitious moveDC plan?
In this second installment of Streetsblog’s interview with DDOT officials about moveDC, the conversation steered to the practicality of congestion pricing, implementation of the plan, and the elephant in the room: Whether a DC Council that just dramatically cut streetcar funding has the appetite to fund progressive transportation. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Silver Line cause and effect
Will Silver bring blue?; What can Green teach about Silver?; Back to school for mixed use; Virginia tells Uber to cease; EPA rule’s impacts will vary; A utility model for funding transit; New bus adjusts to riders; Voters gain development veto power; Seattle gives street space to kids; How the battle was won. Keep reading…