Maryland

Avenue
Update Meeting

May 12, 2015

District Department of
Transportation
Tonight’s Agenda:
1. Recommended Concept Plan
2. Process and Approach
3. Continued Incremental
Improvements
4. Timeline and Next Steps
Maryland Avenue Project Overview:
• Key issues from planning study:
– High speeds & relatively low traffic volumes
– Pedestrian crash history
– Lack of bike facility connectivity
• Recommended Alternative- Road
Reconfiguration (Road Diet), with curb
extensions, landscaped median, left turn
pockets, and bike lanes
 31-45 MPH
26-40 MPH 95th percentile
85th percentile
Crash Trend on Maryland
Avenue, 2005-2012
80

72
70

60
56
54

50 48 47
Crashes per Year

40 38
35
33

30

20

10

0
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
 A Brief History of Maryland Ave. NE
• 12th Street & Maryland Ave. NE, 1909-1932 photo
Maryland Avenue in 1951: Two
travel lanes and wide median

Maryland Avenue at
7th and D Streets, NE
Maryland Ave. between
14th and 15th Streets NE
4 ft. wide
concrete
median

Original wide
planted
median

1947
 Concept — Typical Section
• Existing:

Sidewalk/ Sidewalk/
tree zone tree zone

• Recommended Alternative:

Sidewalk/ 5-6’ 5-6’ Sidewalk/

tree zone tree zone
Concept — Stanton Park
Concept — th
7 /D St./MD:
Concept— th
7 /D/MD Rendering:
Rendering prepared for Historic Preservation
discussion (SHPO, CHRS).
Concept — E th th
St./9 /10 /MD:
Park/Plaza concepts at 9th/10th/E /MD

Design illustrates the uninterrupted “view- Rendering prepared for Historic Preservation
shed” of historic L'Enfant plan. discussion (SHPO, CHRS).
Concept – th
12 /F St./MD
Concept — 14th/G St./Elliott
St./MD
Refinements in Design
• Curb Extensions
– Safety needs (turning vehicle speeds)
– Stormwater management opportunities
– Historic Preservation Stakeholders
• Design of parks/plazas
• Utility locations/needs
• Final lane widths/median dimensions
Process and Approach
• Implement corridor-wide streetscape as
typical capital project using FHWA funds
• Address site-specific locations with interim
treatments
• Design – Bid – Build to resolve detailed design
issues
 Process and Approach
Community
Design Stage Focus Engagement Cost Estimates
Concept - Basic layout, design goals, - Extensive, iterative - Order of
key issues and potential magnitude unit
environmental/historic costs
impacts
Preliminary - Refined layout, utility - Focused on key - Detailed
Engineering locations, landscape issues estimates of unit
treatments quantities/costs
Final Design - Construction Bid - Limited - Construction cost
documents, construction estimate for bid
staging and Traffic Control evaluations
Plans
Construction - Safe, efficient project - Construction - N.A.
completion process
Continued Incremental Improvements
• 7th / D / Maryland (last summer)
• Stanton Park (this summer)
• 9th/10th/E/Maryland (this summer)
7th St./D St./Maryland Avenue- Problems
with former existing conditions:

Where librarian was

struck and injured,
June, 2014
7th St./D St./Maryland Avenue Temporary
Treatment. Installed, July, 2014
Near Term Bike lane gap filling on 4th
and 6th Streets, May/June, 2015
Medium Term 9th/10th/E and Maryland
Summer, 2015
New traffic pattern
New
for 800 block of E St.
Traffic
Signal

Areas closed to motor

vehicle traffic
Timeline and Next Steps
• Preliminary review by FHWA of “Categorical
Exclusion Document” with no major issues
Next Steps:
• Finalize Documented Categorical Exclusion and
obligate FHWA funds for Preliminary Engineering
(June)
• Preliminary Engineering & Detailed Cost Estimate
for programing, Summer 2015-Spring 2016
• Final Design Spring 2016-Spring 2017
• Construction 2017