The DC government is planning to implement a radical restructuring of Connecticut Avenue that will damage it, and the neighborhoods surrounding it, irreparably.

The bike plan will remove two multi-use lanes and replace them with single-use bike lanes protected by concrete barriers. The bike lanes will run along the curb, meaning that pedestrians will have to cross into the bike lanes to cross the street or board a bus. 

The bike plan will remove most parking on the avenue and what remains will be separated from the curb by a four foot bike lane. Cars and delivery vehicles will no longer have any curb access and drivers will have to drop off passengers who then have to step over the concrete barriers through the bike lane to reach the curb.

The small businesses that make Connecticut Avenue livable, walkable and vibrant will, in their own words, be so challenged that they might have to close. 

Perhaps the worst effect of the bike plan is that by reducing the volume that the avenue can handle by 33% a large percentage of the 32,000 cars and trucks that traverse it daily will reroute themselves to neighborhood streets. 

DDOT estimates that approximately 100 cyclists use Connecticut Avenue per day and that fewer than a dozen ride all the way from Nebraska to Calvert.

Residents overwhelmingly oppose this plan that was forced through during the pandemic when residents were unable to meet with their representatives and were as a result disenfranchised. Please sign this petition which we can then present to the mayor, the city council and DDOT to implore them to stop this destructive plan.