A conceptual study released earlier this spring would add new options for alternative modes of transportation between the neighborhoods of Columbia Heights and Brookland in Washington, D.C.
Kent Boese reports on the Crosstown Multimodal Transportation Study, completed recently by the District Department of Transportation, which develops a plan to build pedestrian and bike connections between Columbia Heights and Brookland.
The study "focuses on an area defined by Kenyon and Harvard Streets between 16th and Park Place; Irving Street and Michigan Avenue around the Washington Hospital Center; and Michigan Avenue from the hospital center to South Dakota Avenue," where cars "zip along" but people on bikes or on foot lack safe paths for travel.
After a public workshop that elicited almost 700 comments, DDOT released three concept plans for the corridor in April, according to Boese, as a result of the study. The article includes the pedestrian, bike, and transit improvements included in those three concepts—everything from removing the Michigan Avenue overpass, creating a new streetgrid, adding off-street and protected bike paths, and adding dedicated bus lanes.
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