Waterfront park at The Yards. Photo via NCPC.

[Autoposted while I’m in France]

GGW launched in February, just before the New Partners for Smart Growth conference at the Marriott Wardman Park. And the first panel I attended featured Harriet Tregoning (Director of the Office of Planning) and reps from GSA and Forest City talking about the public-private partnership that is making development in this waterfront brownfield a reality.

But as Washcycle had noticed, the park’s design seems to detour bicycles on the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail along a narrow and sharply-turning path at the edge.

Is that true? Would park designers really just reconnect a trail as an afterthought? I asked the panelists, who only replied that since their landscape architect was a cyclist, they couldn’t possibly have done something like that. But the plans suggest otherwise. Were the officials wrong, are the plans wrong, or were we reading them wrong?

I haven’t seen anything on the park in the meantime. Anyone know?

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.