The D.C. Council is expected to decide the fate Tuesday of a long-planned makeover of K Street NW, weighing whether to defund the project in defiance of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D).
, as well as on road safety initiatives. Council member Robert C. White Jr. said the funding should support housing programs.“Transportation needs will be different in 2030 than they were in 2020,” White said. “Let’s plan for the future of downtown, and invest in housing and homelessness prevention so that we don’t waste money on a project that doesn’t fit the future or end up with a new transit way lined with tent encampments.
be built in the center of K Street, providing dedicated space for more than a dozen bus routes that would be separated from other traffic. The corridor carried about 20,000 transit users daily before the pandemic, according to DDOT.The proposed redesign of the mile-long corridor would eliminate K Street’s decades-old service roads, which transportation officials say confuse motorists, slow traffic and leave pedestrians scrambling between medians.
Lott said last month the city was eliminating the one-way cycle tracks that had been part of the plan. Instead, he said, the city is looking to improve the bike lane one block north on L Street NW. Six weeks earlier, Lott had told the council the design had been completed and the project was on track with a center busway, a cycle track in each direction and pedestrian improvements.“We’re really excited this project is still moving forward,” he said at the time.
“Over the last few years they have been going around town promoting this project, talking about the bike lane, only to drop it at the 11th hour,” he said. “This game DDOT is playing of ‘pick and choose’ on which street you want to be safe — that’s not a good thing.”As Bowser blasted the council’s funding move as a “downtown killer” earlier this month, Lott said that moving the bike lane to L Street was part of a compromise.
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