While most Washingtonians prepared for Hurricane Sandy, DDOT crews were hard at work over the weekend installing the L Street cycle track.

The cycle track will run from New Hampshire Avenue in the west to 12th Street in the east. Workers began marking it on Thursday near New Hampshire Avenue, and have been moving east block by block. As of Sunday they reached just past 17th Street.

L Street near New Hampshire Avenue by Zach Rausnitz (left),

and near Connecticut Avenue by Dan Malouff (right).

On Sunday, DDOT’s “green lane flash mob” was out, painting a high-visibility green coating where the cycle track approaches Connecticut Avenue.

Photos by Andrew Heining (left) and Scott Thomasson (right).

When Sandy is safely past and DDOT begins to work again, share your photos with us via Twitter and on the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool.

Dan Malouff is a transportation planner for Arlington and an adjunct professor at George Washington University. He has a degree in urban planning from the University of Colorado and lives in Trinidad, DC. He runs BeyondDC and contributes to the Washington Post. Dan blogs to express personal views, and does not take part in GGWash's political endorsement decisions.