This morning Mayor Gray, Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells and local business leaders, Anwar Saleem of H Street Main Street and Julia Christian of CHAMPS joined forces to celebrate the substantial completion of the H Street Northeast Streetscape reconstruction. Substantial completion refers to all street and sidewalk surfaces being complete; no traffic lanes being blocked […]
DDOT is asking for your feedback on the proposed placement of 25 new Capital Bikeshare stations. Our friends at Greater Greater Washington have, as ever, given us a useful introduction to the topic. If you’re really interested, the comments are also quite enlightening, though I hope some of those people also sent their comments to […]
Today WUSA 9 reported on the pothole-fixing blitz the Governor announced today in Virginia. Which got me thinking about last year’s Potholepalooza in the District. Potholepalooza is a month long campaign to proactively and aggressively repair thousands of potholes throughout the city. In an effort to repair as many roads in our fair city as quickly […]
Anyone even remotely familiar with the H Street NE development is aware that rails are being laid for the what is likely to be DC’s first streetcar line in half a century. But this is just the first leg in a system that may someday span the District, connecting areas currently difficult to reach by […]
This article, by David Holmes, originally appeared in the September, 2010, newsletter of the Capitol Hill Restoration Society. Change may be in store for 11th Street, SE. At a meeting called by ANC Commissioner Kristen Oldenburg and Councilmember Tommy Wells, the District Department of Transportation (DDoT) presented proposed changes in street parking and new bike […]