Eastern Downtown Protected Bike Lanes

After 7 impossibly long years, DDOT is finally ready to build the 9th St. NW Protected Bike Lane & Safety Project. Take Action to give one final push!

Join ANC 2F (Logan Circle) for a final presentation and vote on the 9th St. NW protected bike lane project!

Join us for a quick recap of the project, a brief history, and to get directly involved in actions coming up this month.

The 9th St. protected bike lane project is moving ahead! See the plans & show your support

Using a street safety project as a proxy for concerns about neighborhood change has real, physical consequences that are measured in ambulance rides and lives permanently changed. We don’t think that’s okay.

What happened: On Tuesday, the DC Council considered Emergency Legislation introduced by Councilmember Brianne Nadeau (Ward 1) to restart the long stalled Eastern Downtown Protected Bike Lane project on 9th Street NW. After considerable discussion by the full Council, Councilmember Nadeau withdrew the legislation because it lacked the supermajority necessary to pass. What we think: […]

The DC Council will vote on March 3rd emergency legislation to complete the 9th Street NW protected bike lane between Florida Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue. This project has been stalled for more than four years, and the District’s inaction has consequences. More than 60 people walking and biking have been hit by drivers on the […]

It just takes a few minutes to call your Councilmembers. Our patch through calling tool will connect you to the right offices. The vote is on Tuesday, so call now!

Join WABA’s advocacy team for a Better Bicycling Advocate Training and dive into the Eastern Downtown project.

After months of delay, the District Department of Transportation continues to slow-walk a decision on proposed protected bike lanes in Shaw. We need this project to be built on a faster timeline. Or, we need DDOT to build both of the final alternatives not just one.

DDOT has recommended one of the four build alternatives and is ready to move forward, but the project has been sitting in the Mayor’s office waiting for a green light.

A big thank you to WABA members and supporters who turned out big for safe streets. Together, we have shifted the conversation from “Should we do this?” to “Which alternative makes most sense?”

11 businesses in Shaw support protected bike lanes and traffic calming for safer streets for all.

More than 1700 people have urged city officials to move forward with plans to calm traffic and install protected bike lanes from Florida Ave to Pennsylvania Ave on 6th or 9th St NW. Unfortunately, not everyone in the community is on board yet. If we want protected bike lanes through Shaw, we have to show […]

DDOT held a community open house last night designed to share information and garner feedback about protected bike lanes connecting Shaw to Downtown DC. It was not the respectful public discussion that we might have hoped for.

There’s been a lot of press in the past few days about a local church’s threat to sue the city over proposed protected bike lanes on 6th Street NW.