DC Strategic Bikeways Plan 2025: Ward 1 Opportunities
Let’s make sure key Ward 1 needs are included as District Strategic Bikeways Plan (SBP) priorities!
The District Dept. of Transportation (DDOT) states that “the Bike Lane Program plans to build an additional 50 miles of bicycle lanes across the District over the next 5 years.” Please communicate your bicycling, safety concerns, network gaps, and project ideas to DDOT via the Strategic Bikeways Plan Public Comment Map.
Here’s our take on priority Ward 1 needs. We hope this list is useful!
- A protected bicycling connection between Mt. Pleasant and the Kenyon St. NW two-way cycletrack that runs from 11th St NW, east (which then connects to the Irving Street NW cycletrack north of the McMillan Reservoir).
- Irving St. NW, Columbia Road NW, and Harvard St. NW are also candidates for protected bikeways between 16th St. NW and the McMillan Reservoir area.
- A protected Mt. Pleasant connection to the 15th Street cycletrack, whose current north end is at Euclid St. NW. This could involve two-way protected bike lanes on 15th St. NW between Euclid and 16th St. NW and on Mount Pleasant St. NW.
- Converting painted bike lanes on 14th St. NW to protected bike lanes, continuous protected bike lanes on 17th St. NW, and protected bike lanes on 19th St. NW, location of the Oyster-Adams School’s Adams campus. Note that the recommended alternative for the DDOT DOT) 14th St. NW bus priority project, between Newton Street and Arkansas Avenue NW, calls for protected bicycle lanes (PBLs). That recommendation dates to October 2023 and needs to be reinforced, and the PBLs should be extended.
- Protected bikeways on Calvert St. NW between Adams Morgan and Woodley Park, to 29th St. NW.
- AND you could also reiterate your support for protected bike lanes on Connecticut Ave. NW, a project that was set to go before being canceled in 2024 for political reasons.
You can provide your comments NOW via DDOT’s Strategic Bikeways Plan Public Comment Map.