[Lincolnparkdc] Traffic calming

[Marche Maine]

Lynn,
I poised three questions for Will Handsfield a neighbor and DDOT employee
who has been on calls with the neighborhood about this issue.
There is relevance for all of our blocks here.
Three important questions for DDOT's Will Handsfield which I hope he can
answer:
1) Option B says "two-way protected bike lanes", can you tell those on this
email what makes them protected vs. advisory bike lanes? - DDOT
nomenclature has not been consistent.
2) Can you please tell us how narrow the proposed lane North Carolina Ave
will be *and* how much more narrow is that then the current (and unsafe for
bikers) 17th St. S.E. lane? - Amber wrote that all of the proposed options
for North Carolina Ave. are to have a much more narrow travel lane than
what is currently on 17th ST S.E.
3) How will the proposed change for North Carolina Ave. *not* repeat the
same speeding problems that 17th St. S.E. and Independence Ave S.E. have? -
People on Independence Ave have been reduced to dragging plastic cartoon
characters out onto the road to slow traffic and the speeding / unsafe for
bikes and pedestrians issue on 17th St. S.E. is a long standing problem
that DDOT continues to study.
Many of our Lincoln Park blocks are experiencing speeding issues and we are
not being heard.

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:04 PM Lynn Hart <lynnhart52 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I support any effort to slow traffic in our neighborhood.
> We live on 11th St SE between Lincoln Park and Independence Ave SE and
> despite 5 years of effort, meetings with Charles Allen and DDOT no effort
> has been made to slow the speeding traffic ( up to 50mph to make a green
> light) on our block.
> We’ve had two meetings in our home with neighbors & Allen & DDOT and then
> filed traffic count & speed surveys they suggested we do with no good
> result. Nothing - no traffic calming, no electronic traffic advisory sign,
> no camera. Only one verbal report that “they didnt see a problem”.  Some
> residents moved to get away from the traffic - out of state!
> It seems our council member has moved on to issues he’d rather tackle and
> that moving commuters is more important. However I must thank our ANC
> representative who has tried several times help us to bring this to
> councils attention.
> Lynn Hart
>
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Mark R. Grace
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