by Larry Janezich
Posted September 16, 2025
ANC6A Transportation Committee with DDOT’s Chris Berg, center.
Monday night, ANC6A’s Transportation Committee, chaired by resident commissioner Patrick Bloomstein, received an update on DDOT’s Strategic Bike Plan. The report came from DDOT’s Bicycle/Pedestrian Program Specialist, Chris Berg.
The Strategic Bikeways Plan will establish priorities for development of the city’s bikeways. The plan will update the moveDC bicycle priority network, following up on projects completed since 2021, to identify gaps and missing connections and reflect community needs. The effort will entail identifying key corridors and neighborhood bikeways and Berg stressed the call from bikers for protected bike lanes.
(Last week, ANC6B voted unanimously to write a letter to DDOT supporting Hill Family Biking’s proposal from Sam Moghtaderi and Christopher Forinash to encourage the city to put a protected 2-way bike lane on 11th Street, SE, from Lincoln Park to M Street, SE.)
As shown in the timeline above, the project is in the Public Meetings stage. Delivery of a final Strategic Bike Plan is scheduled for April – July 2026. That will be followed by decisions on the details of a five year work plan for Fiscal Year 2026 – Fiscal Year 2030.
DDOT will have a table at the H Street Festival next Saturday, September 20, to interact with bikers and answer questions. A proposed Ward 6 public workshop on the Strategic Plan has been scheduled for December 4 at a location TBA.
For more info and to provide feedback via a survey, go here: https://bikelanes.ddot.dc.gov/pages/strategicbikeplan
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