Friday, March 25, 2022
Re: Notification for the Installation of Park Pl NW Protected Bike Lane, Park Rd One-Way Westbound Conversion
Notice # 22-121-PSD
Dear Chairpersons Wray and Mansaray,
Pursuant to the “Administrative Procedure Amendment Act of 2000” D.C. LAW 13-249 (48 DCR 3491 April 20, 2001), the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is required to give a written notice of our intent to modify traffic and /or parking requirements. This letter is being forwarded to you for the purpose of notification and solicitation of comments on our intent to implement the following in your jurisdiction.
DDOT proposes to:
The existing condition of 5th St NW is one southbound one-way travel lane with Resident Permit Parking on both side of the street and an unprotected bike lane. The existing condition of Park Pl NW is two southbound one-way travel lanes with Resident Permit Parking on the west side of the street and an unprotected bike lane. The existing condition of Park Rd NW is an eastbound and westbound travel lane with Resident Permit Parking on the north side of the street. The type of parking on 5th St NW, Park Pl NW, and Park Rd NW will not be affected by the installation of the Protected Bike Lane or counterflow bike lane.
This segment is an important step in expanding the protected bike lane network, now also used
by scooters and other personal mobility devices. It will connect the Crosstown Cycletrack to points north and south along 5th and Park Pl NW. This follows from the 2016 Crosstown Multimodal Transportation Study, which recommended closing a major gap in the bike network by building a safe north and south bound bikeway along the Park Pl/5th St and Warder/7th St NW corridor. In 2017, DDOT initiated a project to conduct safety, traffic, parking analysis, and public outreach to determine the alignment for this bikeway. This plan was developed with extensive public and interagency input, including a public open house and pop-up event that demonstrated the proposed protected bike lane on Kenyon NW. ANC commissioners were invited to (and many attended) the public meeting and pop-up event. A full timeline of outreach events is below:
We anticipate the following benefits:
All comments on this subject matter must be filed in writing, not later than Monday, May 9th 2022, thirty (30) business days after the date of this notice, with the District Department of Transportation Planning and Sustainability Division, 250 M Street, SE, 5th Floor, Washington, DC, 20003 or via email at aaron.goldbeck@dc.gov. If you would like to check the status of this Notice of Intent (NOI), please visit DDOT’s website at http://ddot.dc.gov/service/ddot-notice-intent. If you are having any trouble accessing the NOI site or are unable to do so, please contact the DDOT Customer Service Clearinghouse at 202-671-2800.
Sincerely,
Aaron Goldbeck
Bicycle Program Specialist
Planning and Sustainability Division
Project Delivery Administration
Cc: Hon. Brianne Nadeau, DC Councilmember, Ward 1
Hon. Janeese Lewis George, DC Councilmember, Ward 4
Rashida Brown, Commissioner ANC 1A10
Kent Boese, Commissioner ANC 1A08
Clara Haskell Botstein, Commissioner ANC 4C08
Nyasha Smith, Secretary to the Council of the District of Columbia
Anna Chamberlin, DDOT Associate Director
George Branyan, DDOT Active Transportation Branch Manager
Garrett Hennigan, WABA Community Organizer
Kelly Jeong-Olson, DDOT Community Engagement Manager
Migon Bowie, DDOT Ward 1 Community Engagement Specialist
Moises Del’Rosario, Ward 1 MOCRS Liaison
Anthony Mitchell, Ward 4 MOCRS Liaison
Oscar Montiel, Constituent Services Director for Councilmember Nadeau
Tamira Benitez, Constituent Services Director for Councilmember Lewis George
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