The 18th St NE bicycle/mobility lanes are a set of painted lanes on 18th St NE running in some form for the half mile from Montana Ave NE to Rhode Island Ave NE
Learn more about 18th St NE here
The lanes are inconsistent; running on only one or the other side of the roadway (with sharrows on the other side), and jumping laterally across intersections without guidelines or good visibility
This is confusing and unsafe for bikers and drivers alike; the double-yellow median frequently jumps around with the bike lanes
A number of nearby infrastructure improvements, geographic constraints, and family-centric amenities make it especially important that we protect the infrastructure we have as we seek to extend it from Montana to Michigan
✏️Send an email to DDOT’s Community Engagement Specialist for Ward 5, Dalando Baker dalando.baker@dc.gov
☘️CC Commissioner VJ Kapur 5c07@anc.dc.gov
🗣️Include Conor Shaw cshaw@dccouncil.gov of Council-member Zachary Parker’s office
You can help make 18th St NE Safer!
When emailing, mention any of these points and/or add your own:
Ward 5 is underrepresented in bicycle lanes and overrepresented in crashes and fatalities
18th St (combined with a segment of Montana Ave) is the middle of only three connections over the railyard and tracks extending east from the Metropolitan Branch tracks/trail
The 18th St corridor is home to nine schools, many daycares, six parks, two rec centers, a library, a public pool, a large senior assisted living facility, a pediatric rehabilitation center, two forest patches, large institutional facilities, and several anticipated large-scale developments, making safe and corridor-long connectivity crucial.
DDOT’s MoveDC Bicycle Priority plans include plans for future improvement along all of Montana Ave, and 18th St north from the existing lanes to South Dakota Ave NE. 18th St provides a uniquely necessary north-south route parallel with the existing (and now finally complete) MBT/8th St route.