The District’s ambitious plan to reconfigure K Street NW through downtown to ease traffic congestion, prioritize buses and better accommodate cyclists and pedestrians is advancing ever closer to construction.
The K Street Transitway is in the final stage of its $6.3 million design process, which should wrap up by the end of July, the D.C. Department of Transportation recently told the D.C. Council in public documents. DDOT expects to deliver the engineering documents needed for construction procurement in September, according to the agency’s responses to the D.C. Council’s fiscal year 2022 performance oversight questions.
Construction is expected to cost $110 million, DDOT director Everett Lott said in an email to the Washington Business Journal.
“The construction procurement timeline of September 2022 is correct,” Lott said. “We expect construction on this project to start on or around March 2023.”
Under the plan, a two-way dedicated bus lane would occupy the center of K Street between…
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