Still on DDOT’s Connecticut Avenue safety to-do list: Left-turn lanes and curb extensions. No longer on the list: bike lanes.
DDOT Director Sharon Kershbaum revealed the new plan during the DC Council’s budget hearing for the agency, under questioning by Ward 3 Council member Matt Frumin.
Kershbaum reiterated the change in plans in an interview with NBC4’s Adam Tuss.
“The decision right now is to do the safety project without a bike lane,” she said.
So, the next designs we may see for the three-mile stretch of Connecticut between Chevy Chase Circle and Calvert Street are for curb extensions that shorten the crossing distances for pedestrians, lanes for left-turning vehicles, and 24-hour parking that will reduce Connecticut Avenue rush-hour travel lanes from six to four.
The 24/7 protest at the Israeli embassy. “Outside the embassy’s main entrance, the protesters have dug in,” writes a reporter for Forward. “Each night, a new shift arrives.”
Help a new local news outlet choose a name. It’s been seven weeks since WAMU/American University announced the immediate shutdown of DCist.com, and let more than a dozen reporters and other staff go. Now, some former WAMU and DCist reporters are forming a new worker-led news outlet, and they’re asking the public for help in naming the organization.
“We’re committed to representing what it really means to live in D.C. Our coverage will serve the whole city: every ward, and each community that lives in and loves the District. Our reporting will be guided by justice and equity, tackling the complex issues facing our city, like housing, safety, and education, from the perspective that all residents deserve these fundamental rights. Of course, we’re also going to be funny, curious, and irreverent at times… honoring the DCist tradition.”
So DCist… but also not DCist. DCish springs to mind, and indeed, that is one of the five options on the survey form. And if none of the five floats your boat, the team is welcoming other suggestions.
Three weeks after DCist’s demise, WAMU.org gave the site a more fitting sendoff, with DCist’s co-founders, former staffers, and readers sharing their memories.
In other news
“CVS stores that should have apartments above them, ranked” – Greater Greater Washington
“Apartment dwellers plagued by secondhand smoke have little recourse” – The Washington Post (no local mentions but of relevance to the neighborhood’s many high-rise residents)
“Students get UDC campus ready for big ceremony” – WUSA9
“I Toured Metro’s ‘Newly Renovated’ Bathrooms. Here’s What I Found.” Washingtonian
“What would you name your Single Member District? We mapped our ideas for all 345 of them” – Greater Greater Washington
Social media mentions
Goodbye to Reno Road’s northbound exit onto 36th Street. The small-scale speedway is being closed off, as cars leaving Reno Road often did so at non-residential street speeds.
And for those looking to make that right turn, Warren and Windom Streets are still open for business. pic.twitter.com/Yk89fSiHBN
— Tenleytown & Around (@Tenleytown411) April 4, 2024
Technology looked a bit different back in 1971. Here, a student in the computer science program at Washington Technical Institute works with an early IBM computer. #UDC1851 #UDCFirebirds #OneUDC pic.twitter.com/4nNBvUabnO
— UDC Library (@udc_library) March 22, 2024