<div dir="auto"><div>Sharing with the wider community.  If you've not received ANC Commissioner Gove's email here it is.</div><div dir="auto">I'd like to point out a DDOT contradiction, they acknowledge the North Carolina Ave speeding problem by NOT considering the sharrow option ..."<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Sharrows are not considered a safe treatment for a street with this volume/speed of vehicles..." </span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">But exacerbate it by creating a wider one-way west bound lane. If you need a visual example of what their ineptitude will do look at 17th street south bound. It is a wide one-way with a chronic, seriously dangerous speed problem. </span><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear Neighbors,</span><br></font></div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For those who don't know me, I'm the Commissioner for the area that includes Lincoln Park and the 1300 block of North Carolina. Since several of you asked for additional information, I'm sharing a high level summary from the most recent public meeting. If you were not able to join us, the recording is available </span><a href="https://zoom.us/rec/share/O6TWIo1jdse0ErV7-x0xmggEC34J4_T9N8hp1BhqxvPBLsqq0P4ORTWEEkrpsXeW.fXAVr-qvLpaNvl1v?startTime=1626735621000" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. The agenda with slides from both the July and January meetings is <a href="https://anc6a.org/wp-content/uploads/TPSA0721.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">here</a> and detailed Q&A responses from DDOT are <a href="https://anc6a.org/wp-content/uploads/July-2021-TPS-QAs.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">here</a>. Minutes will be posted next month. </span></font></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><br></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Below are a few highlights from the July public meeting, in which DDOT shared SIX potential designs and reiterated their commitment to “filling in this missing segment in the bike network, improving pedestrian safety and reducing vehicular speeds.” </span></font>

<span id="m_477092866021758279gmail-docs-internal-guid-9b394ef0-7fff-b038-1c72-42687a23d60d"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">One set of designs (Options A1 and A2) would remove about 25 parking spaces on the south side of the block. The other four proposals (Options B through E) would retain nearly all parking but convert this block to one-way westbound, rerouting eastbound drivers to either East Capitol or Constitution. </span></span><font color="#000000"><br><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Clarification of Process. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">At the top of the meeting, TPS Chair Dundon and DDOT’s George Branyan provided an updated timeline and where we are in the process. We are still very much in the development phase, so now is the time to engage to ensure that the final design meets our needs and that of the broader community. We will have at least one more public meeting before the Notice of Intent and official public comment period.</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>C Street Project.</b>  DDOT is seeking to add bike facilities to this block because construction on the 1400-1600 blocks of North Carolina is scheduled for Sept 2022 as part of the C Street Project. </span></font><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">The $16M project will remove a vehicle travel lane in each direction, add raised crosswalks and greenspace, and install a fully protected bike path to connect the Anacostia River Trail to Lincoln Park. Or nearly so. At some point in the decade between initial concept and final designs, the 1300 block of North Carolina Avenue NE was dropped from DDOT’s plans. No one at DDOT has been able to explain to me how or why this happened. See project details here: </span><a href="http://www.cstne.com" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.cstne.com</a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">.</span></div><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Demand for Traffic Calming. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Residents reiterated their concerns related to speeding and requests for traffic calming measures, and DDOT committed to adding more calming measures to the designs. All designs narrow the vehicle travel lanes from 12 feet to 10 feet wide, which has been shown to reduce speeds, especially when physical barriers are used. They also all add a raised crosswalk mid-block-- a legal crossing that will allow better access to the triangle park. We also saw new designs for the intersection at the 1400 block of North Carolina that will eliminate the left turn lane and improve the bike connection for that block.</span><br><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Demand for Parking, including Accessible Parking. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">DDOT again presented a set of one-way designs that retain nearly all parking-- proposals B through E. Handicapped parking would also be retained on both sides of the block in the one-way designs.</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000"><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;ve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