The D.C. Department of Transportation will slow traffic along a 2.7 mile-stretch of Connecticut Avenue NW, make room for cyclists and reduce space for parked cars in a project scheduled to be completed in late 2025, city officials said Tuesday.
The $7.7 million project, extending from Calvert Street NW in Woodley Park to Legation Street NW in Chevy Chase, initially launched in winter 2020 as DDOT reviewed the impact of reversible lanes along the busy corridor — lanes it deactivated at the start of the pandemic and ultimately opted to remove permanently as part of its Vision Zero initiative meant to eliminate traffic-related crashes, injuries and deaths.
In December, DDOT and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser selected “Concept C,” a plan to replace the reversible lanes with two northbound and two southbound travel lanes, one-way protected bicycle lanes on the east and west sides of the street, new intersection turn lanes, and a corridor-wide speed limit of 25 mph. Parking will be reduced,…
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