Barney Circle Southeast Boulevard Public Meeting Presentation 11/21/13

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Barney Circle and Southeast Boulevard

Transportation Planning Study

Revised Design Concepts Meeting

November 21, 2013

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Agenda

1. Meeting Purpose

2. Program and Project Goals

3. Public Comments Received

4. Revised Design Concepts

5. Questions and Answers

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Module 1

Meeting Purpose

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Meeting Purpose

Recent Work: Share with you the results of ourwork since the last public meeting, February 21,2013.

What were your comments at the last public meeting?

What did we do to address them?

How did your comments change the design concepts forthe project?

Moving Forward: We need your feedback!

Please review the revised design concepts and provideus your feedback on the comment form.

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Module 2

Program and Project Goals

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Anacostia Waterfront Initiative

Program Goals Provide continuous pedestrian and

bicycle access along the entire waterfront.

Aggressively promote a modal shift to

public transit.

Create Great Urban Boulevards with

mixed uses, landscaping, and great civic

spaces.

Redesign highways and freeways to

reduce barriers between neighborhoodsand waterfront parks.

Reconnect the city street grid to

waterfront parks.

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What Are the Future Projects

Adjacent to this Project?

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Barney Circle and Southeast Boulevard

Transportation Planning Study Goals

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Transform the Southeast Freeway into a boulevard thatis integrated with adjacent neighborhoods betweenthe new 11th Street Bridge and Barney Circle and the

Anacostia Waterfront.

Reconstruct Barney Circle to accommodate vehicleturning movements.

Improve pedestrian and bicyclist connectivity to theAnacostia River Waterfront.

Considered design options that include multi-modaltransportation uses.


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What Process is Used to Make a

Decision for the Project? Final Design and

Right of Way

2015/2016

Construction

2017/2018

Comments received

at our meeting tonight

will determine our

next steps for theschedule of the

project

Tonight

Winter 2013

Spring 2014

Spring 2014

Summer 2014


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Module 3

Prior Public Comments Received

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How Did We Address Your Comments

After the First Public Meeting?

Compiled and reviewed all public comments.

Evaluated how to address the questions we received.

Traffic scenarios were evaluated using the traveldemand model.

Applied travel demand model to the development of

the revised design concepts.

Share results of our work with you tonight.

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Traffic Analysis Confirms 4 Lanes

Necessary for Southeast Boulevard

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Concepts Analyzed

That Will No Longer be Studied

Vehicular street connection from 13th, 14th, and 15thStreets SE to Southeast Boulevard, as it had the potentialto induce cut through neighborhood traffic.

Southeast Boulevard constructed immediately adjacent

to L Street Southeast.

Southeast Boulevard as a 2-lane road as it had thepotential to induce cut-through neighborhood traffic.

Southeast Boulevard eliminated, as it had the potential toinduce cut-through neighborhood traffic.

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Addressing Your Comments!

Pedestrian and Bicycle Connections to the Waterfront

Create pedestrian and bicycle connections from 13th, 14th,and 15th Streets SE to waterfront.

Allow pedestrian and bicycle access through Barney Circle.

Kentucky Avenue Included in Study Area Expand the study area to include 700 and 800 blocks of

Kentucky Avenue SE to evaluate potential cut through trafficthat may result from the improvements to Barney Circle.

Southeast Boulevard Design Do not provide vehicle connections to 13th, 14th, and 15th

Streets SE.

Do not locate Southeast Boulevard immediately adjacent tohomes along L Street SE.

Parking FacilityAn underground parking facility is quieter and allows green

space on top.

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Module 4

Revised Design Concepts

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Revised Design Concepts

Presented Tonight

Concept 1: No Build --- Do Nothing Option.

Concepts 1 and 2 for Barney Circle.

Concepts 2, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B for Southeast Boulevard.

Reference the Concept Guide.

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Southeast Freeway

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Module 5

Community Questions and Answers

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Tonight: Tell Us What You Think!

Fill Out Comment Form!

Email Distribution List:www.anacostiawaterfront.org/BarneyCircle

Email: [email protected]

Mail: Mr. Sanjay Kumar, P.E.District Department of Transportation

Anacostia Waterfront Initiative55 M Street, SE, Suite 400Washington, DC 20003

DDOT is committed to ensuring that no person is excluded

from participation in, or denied the benefits of its projects,programs, and services on the basis of race, color, nationalorigin, or gender, as provided by Title VI of the Civil Rights

Act of 1964 or on the basis of disability as provided by theAmericans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

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