Posts tagged One Way Streets
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Breakfast links: More transit, please
Purple power; Courting the corridor; Ecodistrict will bloom; Ride hailing welcome; Greener pastures; Wilson School is history; The long game; No u-turns. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Drive safe
The stats on crashes; The crashiest intersections; Make one-way two; Check out no parking; Heliport or not?; Andy Harris, fix my pothole; Construction kills fish; The Bike Lobby brainwashes reporters!; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taxi tactics
Taxi access; Uber fights at home and abroad; Food trucks out of Rosslyn; Vacant lot transformed; How big is White Flint?; Two-way New Hampshire; Political pieces; Solar comes to Blue Plains?; And…. Keep reading…
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New Jersey Avenue streetscape plans change slightly
DDOT has made a number of changes to its design for New Jersey Avenue NW between H and N Streets from its previous draft in late July, but the main elements remain — making the road two-way and adding bike lanes. Keep reading…
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New Hampshire Avenue latest to get 2-way and bike lanes
DDOT is on a roll changing roads from traffic sewers to multimodal neighborhood streets. It’s remaking New Jersey Avenue, and now you can add New Hampshire Avenue in Foggy Bottom and the West End to the mix. An upcoming streetscape project will add bike lanes between Washington Circle and Dupont Circle, bulb-outs at some corners, and change the one-way segment north of… Keep reading…
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New Jersey Avenue will become 2-way with bike lanes
Much of New Jersey Avenue NW through the Mount Vernon Triangle area has essentially been a one-way off-ramp for I-395 for years. DDOT wants to turn this broad avenue back into a 2-way neighborhood street, add bicycle lanes, and have the bike lanes cross the intersection in a way that would be new to DC but is common in the Netherlands. Currently, New Jersey Avenue NW is a 2-way street… Keep reading…
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Then & Now: Valley Place, a slice of 19th Century Anacostia
Valley Place SE stretches only two blocks in Anacostia, but the street maintains 5 houses (4 of which are occupied) that date back to Frederick Douglass’ early morning walks through the neighborhood. Keep reading…
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Should Mount Vernon Square become circle-like?
Cars and streetcars could flow counterclockwise around a Mount Vernon Square enlivened with retail, seating and events in the park and along the Convention Center’s façade, under draft recommendations the DC Office of Planning unveiled last night. Mount Vernon Square resembles Dupont Circle in many ways. It carries just as much car traffic and sits at… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Changing before our eyes
Two approaches to downtown; Two more crashes, two fewer people; Pedestrians? We’ll take a quick look when we widen; Don’t forget education; Turbo building. Keep reading…
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Sidewalks, median, and two-way streets among Glover Park recommendations
DDOT is recommending pedestrian improvements, bike lanes, consolidating bus stops, two-way streets, a Wisconsin Avenue median, performance parking and more in their recently-completed Glover Park Transportation Study. Toole Design Group conducted the study on behalf of DDOT. They conducted a survey of residents, which found that 33% commute by bus compared to 20% by car,… Keep reading…