Posts tagged Contraflow Lanes
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Some LeDroit Park residents want to remove bike lanes. Tell DDOT not to do that!
If you live, work, walk, bike, or drive in LeDroit Park, please thank DDOT for adding bike lanes to the area and ask them not to consider removing them. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: That wasn’t so bad
#Blessed; Pope traffic every day?; Widen I-66 now or later?; We want the shoulder; Voter suppression?; Contraflow Columbia Heights; Change of plans; No money for FBI. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Peaks and valleys
Blossoms blooming; Not the best velodrome time; With spring, new bike lanes; Don’t blame bike lanes; Numbers up and down; Who will plan Montgomery?; Parking saps vitality (and tax revenue); 10,000 map maniacs; And…. Keep reading…
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Striping will start soon for contraflow bike lanes on G and I Streets NE
Now that spring is around the corner, DC is getting ready to install new bike lanes around H Street NE. Signs have started going up on G and I Streets NE for bicycles to legally travel in both directions on each street. For cars, I Street remains one-way eastbound, while G Street is one-way westbound. According to an email from the District Department of Transportation… Keep reading…
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DDOT lays out its plans for new bikeways in 2014
It may be snowing today, but spring is approaching. With construction season therefore around the corner, DDOT has released its list of planned bike projects for 2014. Keep reading…
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New Hampshire Ave bike lane has some flaws
Last year, DDOT opened innovative new contraflow bike lanes on New Hampshire Avenue near U Street. But a few design problems remain. Three cyclists created this video to illustrate some of the issues: Keep reading…
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Virginia Senate kills bad anti-livability, WMATA board bills
The Virginia Senate’s finance commmittee killed three bad transportation-related bills, all of which would have transferred decision-making over transportation in Northern Virginia to Richmond and away from the region’s counties and cities. HB2000 would mandate that Governor McDonnell’s representative to the Northern Virginia Transportation… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The expansive, expensive parking lot
70 percent empty? Mission accomplished; Parking policy goes mainstream; Making payment a pleasure?; Live Free and Stop on NH; Dumbstruck; VDOT chooses parking and riding over TOD. Keep reading…
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Contraflow lanes open on New Hampshire Ave
DDOT just activated the new contraflow bike lanes on the two blocks of New Hampshire Avenue connecting from U Street. Cyclists traveling against the flow of car traffic now have separate lanes in which to travel all the way to the crossroads of U Street, 16th Street, and New Hampshire Avenue. Keep reading…
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16th & U getting contraflow lanes, bike boxes
DDOT’s long-term plans for U Street include major bicycle improvements at the corner of 16th and U. While a full reconstruction is not scheduled soon, the agency isn’t waiting to implement some improvements for cyclists at this location. The changes, which are being studied through FHWA’s experimentation process, include contraflow bike lanes on New… Keep reading…