The DC Low Stress Network

Business owners are an important stakeholder for street safety redesigns. Join our campaign to remind business owners on Connecticut Ave that their customers get there by bike.

Action Alert

The Connecticut Ave NW bike lane needs to happen this year.

RIP Concept C

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Letter: K Street NE Protected Bike Lane NOI

This project needs to move forward, and it should include protected intersections.

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Letter: Union Station Expansion Bike Infrastructure

Upgrades to Union Station must include connectivity improvements for people on bikes.

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Letter: Arizona Ave NW Protected Bike Lanes NOI

The design for Ward 3's first protected bike lane needs some improvement at intersections.

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Letter: Bike Lane Design in Connecticut Avenue Deckover

Proposed bike lanes are too narrow to be safe.

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DDOT Strategic Bikeways Plan – Ward 7 Public Workshop

Jan 1, 1970

Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church

Hosted by DDOT

This event took place on Jan 01, 1970

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DDOT Strategic Bikeways Plan – Ward 6 Public Workshop

Jan 1, 1970

Southwest Library

Hosted by DDOT

This event took place on Jan 01, 1970

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DDOT Strategic Bikeways Plan – Ward 4 Public Workshop

Jan 1, 1970

Raymond Recreation Center

Hosted by DDOT

This event took place on Jan 01, 1970

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DDOT Strategic Bikeways Plan – Ward 3 Public Workshop

Jan 1, 1970

UDC

Hosted by DDOT

This event took place on Jan 01, 1970

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DDOT Strategic Bikeways Plan – Ward 2 Public Workshop

Jan 1, 1970

MLK Library

Hosted by DDOT

This event took place on Jan 01, 1970

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Jan

DDOT Strategic Bikeways Plan – Ward 8 Public Workshop

Jan 1, 1970

RISE Demonstration Center

Hosted by DDOT

This event took place on Jan 01, 1970

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Jan

DDOT Strategic Bikeways Plan – Ward 1 Public Workshop

Jan 1, 1970

St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church

Hosted by DDOT

This event took place on Jan 01, 1970

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Marshall Heights Community Listening Session

Jan 1, 1970

Marshall Heights Community Development Organization

In partnership with Marshall Heights Community Development Organization

This event took place on Jan 01, 1970

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Jan

Washington DC Bicycling Advocates Social

Jan 1, 1970

Nanny O’Briens, 3319 Connecticut Avenue NW

This event took place on Jan 01, 1970

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Action Alert

Bikes Belong in Ward 8

In partnership with Ward 8 Bike Alliance

Today, many Ward 8 residents bike all over Ward 8—for commuting, for exercise, and for fun—but their lives are threatened by unsafe road designs and reckless driving behavior.

Action Alert

Related Campaigns:

Advocacy

WABA fights for a region where biking, walking and transit are the best ways to get around.

We educate policymakers and organize grassroots advocates for to speak up for safer places to bike and walk; and for laws and policies that protect people who are walking and biking, reduce dangerous driving, and facilitate changes to the built environment.

Complete Streets

Complete Streets are streets designed to accommodate all users, and that prioritize historically underinvested modes of transportation like transit, walking, and biking. An incomplete street might lack adequate sidewalks, low-stress bike infrastructure, or safe and comfortable access to transit.

Effective Complete Streets policies change the way a jurisdiction plans and builds transportation infrastructure—sidewalks, low stress bike infrastructure, and transit should be included in any new or rebuilt street by default, rather than as an add-on when there's space or demand.

While most regional jurisdictions have a Complete Streets policy of some sort, they lack teeth and permit transportation departments to continue to build streets that put cars first and squeeze other modes into the margins.

Connecticut Ave NW

Connecticut Ave NW is a busy corridor that connects downtown DC to Bethesda, Maryland. It's a high-speed, multi-lane road without adequate infrastructure for safe biking and walking. In 2019 The District Department of Transportation began studying ways to make the corridor safer. Working with Ward 3 Bike Advocates and a host of grassroots volunteers, WABA organized broad support for a variety of safety improvements, including protected bike lanes from Woodley Park to the Maryland border. In December of 2021, Mayor Bowser announced that the District would move forward with a design concept that included protected bike lanes.

Despite this broad support, and the 2021 announcement, in the spring of 2024, DDOT announced that it would be moving forward with a bike-lane-free design for the corridor, apparently because of concerns about parking. WABA is working with local advocates, business owners, and the DC Council to move the project forward.

Q and R Street Protected Bike Lanes

The painted, unprotected bike lanes on Q and R Streets Northwest are the longest east-west bike corridor in DC's core.

Bicyclists who use these lanes must navigate stopped vehicles, drivers veering into the bike lane, inch-close dangerous passing, and the constant threat of being “doored.” Unsurprisingly, these lanes do not meet DDOT’s own low-stress bikeway design standards.

WABA is working with group of grassroots advocates to persuade DDOT to convert these lanes to protected bike lanes.