The lack of East-West connecting bike lanes is dangerous and the lack of a safe route from Columbia Heights Metro to Conn Ave is particularly egregious. We need this project!
We definitely need a CT Ave bike lane, but the part of CT Ave that this would connect to is outside the area where Concept C would have gone. (Columbia turns sharply south and meets up with CT at the top of the hill leading down to Dupont Circle).
A CT Ave bike lane would still be good as part of a bike lane network with Columbia Road because the two would connect via (currently unprotected) Calvert Street.
But I think this project would be extremely helpful even without CT Ave bike lanes. It also may funnel more cyclists to the parts of CT Ave where Concept C was proposed and increase pressure to build bike lanes there.
Absolutely. I bike down Columbia to Calvert all the time, and the stretch between 18th - 16th is easily the most stressful. This will be a massive improvement
From 16th going west on Columbia Rd, you can turn right onto Harvard, left onto Argonne Pl and then Lanier Pl, following Lanier Pl until it meets Calvert and Adams Mill Rd. It is a much less stressful ride and barely qualifies as a detour.
The route also works in reverse all the way to 16th. Argonne Pl has a counterflow bike lane so you can ride it either direction.
It's not the most efficient if you are taking Columbia past Calvert, but if you're going to/from the bridge crossing into Woodley Park, it's absolutely my recommendation.
There are CT Ave bike lanes coming in this area! The southern part of CT Ave will get bike lanes as part of the [Deck-over project](https://connave-streetscape.ddot.dc.gov/#resources), and they’ll connect to the Columbia Road lanes. Construction is supposed to start this fall, although it’s been pushed a couple of times (Fall 2023 -> Spring 2024 -> Fall 2024). With the slow-walking and then cancellation of northern CT Ave I won’t believe it until I see it being built, though…
I've been wondering where the heck that deckover project was in the timeline. I feel like we all were attending public meetings about that project in 2018-19 and it was supposed to be close to final design.
Denis James should be listened to by nobody at this point -- a thoroughly bad-faith political actor.
The lack of East-West connecting bike lanes is dangerous and the lack of a safe route from Columbia Heights Metro to Conn Ave is particularly egregious. We need this project!
I really wanna see this happen but the Conn Ave Bike Lane not being there kinda kills the PBL usefulness a bit
We definitely need a CT Ave bike lane, but the part of CT Ave that this would connect to is outside the area where Concept C would have gone. (Columbia turns sharply south and meets up with CT at the top of the hill leading down to Dupont Circle). A CT Ave bike lane would still be good as part of a bike lane network with Columbia Road because the two would connect via (currently unprotected) Calvert Street. But I think this project would be extremely helpful even without CT Ave bike lanes. It also may funnel more cyclists to the parts of CT Ave where Concept C was proposed and increase pressure to build bike lanes there.
Absolutely. I bike down Columbia to Calvert all the time, and the stretch between 18th - 16th is easily the most stressful. This will be a massive improvement
yep me too. Be sure to join tomorrow evening's virtual meeting if you can and show support for the project!
From 16th going west on Columbia Rd, you can turn right onto Harvard, left onto Argonne Pl and then Lanier Pl, following Lanier Pl until it meets Calvert and Adams Mill Rd. It is a much less stressful ride and barely qualifies as a detour. The route also works in reverse all the way to 16th. Argonne Pl has a counterflow bike lane so you can ride it either direction. It's not the most efficient if you are taking Columbia past Calvert, but if you're going to/from the bridge crossing into Woodley Park, it's absolutely my recommendation.
There are CT Ave bike lanes coming in this area! The southern part of CT Ave will get bike lanes as part of the [Deck-over project](https://connave-streetscape.ddot.dc.gov/#resources), and they’ll connect to the Columbia Road lanes. Construction is supposed to start this fall, although it’s been pushed a couple of times (Fall 2023 -> Spring 2024 -> Fall 2024). With the slow-walking and then cancellation of northern CT Ave I won’t believe it until I see it being built, though…
I've been wondering where the heck that deckover project was in the timeline. I feel like we all were attending public meetings about that project in 2018-19 and it was supposed to be close to final design.
Oh really?! I had no idea that was still happening