Parkside Pedestrian Bridge Fact Sheet
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PARKSIDE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE Project Overview The Parkside Pedestrian Bridge will provide safe, well lit, disabilitiesaccessible pedestrian travel between neighborhoods and a local Metrorail station now separated by DC 295 and two sets of railroad tracks just north of the Benning Road interchange. Specifically, the bridge will more directly and safely connect the Mayfair neighborhood and proposed Parkside development to the west with the Minnesota Avenue Metrorail and Bus Transfer Stations, Downtown Ward 7, and the Deanwood Community to the east. Currently planned to be advertised for contractor bids in the Winter of 2014/2015, the bridge will be 400 feetlong with three spans and arches at each end. Sides of the bridge will be enclosed with a mesh screen. In addition, to reduce longterm bridge maintenance, repair and cost, the bridge will include sustainable design features, such as weatheringsteel trusses with a natural brown patina that will never need to be painted, a metal roof, and a low maintenance deck. Bridge Access On the west, or Kenilworth Terrace side, the bridge will touch down on public property but travel through the private property of the Parkside development with stairs and a roughly 350footlong disabilities accessible ramp. Milestones Milestone Date Advertised for Construction Winter 2014/2015 Contractor Bids Due Spring 2015 Issue Notice to Proceed Summer 2015 Project Investment $22 million
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Transcript of Parkside Pedestrian Bridge Fact Sheet
PARKSIDE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
Project Overview The Parkside Pedestrian Bridge will provide safe, well-‐lit, disabilities-‐accessible pedestrian travel between neighborhoods and a local Metrorail station now separated by DC 295 and two sets of railroad tracks just north of the Benning Road interchange.
Specifically, the bridge will more directly and safely connect the Mayfair neighborhood and proposed Parkside development to the west with the Minnesota Avenue Metrorail and Bus Transfer Stations, Downtown Ward 7, and the Deanwood Community to the east.
Currently planned to be advertised for contractor bids in the Winter of 2014/2015, the bridge will be 400-‐feet-‐long with three spans and arches at each end. Sides of the bridge will be enclosed with a mesh screen.
In addition, to reduce long-‐term bridge maintenance, repair and cost, the bridge will include sustainable design features, such as weathering-‐steel trusses with a natural brown patina that will never need to be painted, a metal roof, and a low maintenance deck.
Bridge Access
On the west, or Kenilworth Terrace side, the bridge will touch down on public property but travel through the private property of the Parkside development with stairs and a roughly 350-‐foot-‐long disabilities-‐accessible ramp.
Milestones
Milestone Date
Advertised for Construction Winter 2014/2015
Contractor Bids Due Spring 2015
Issue Notice to Proceed Summer 2015
Project Investment $22 million
Updated: 10/21/2014
On the east, or Minnesota Avenue side, it will touch down and travel through both public and Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (WMATA) property with stairs and a roughly 350-‐foot long disabilities-‐accessible ramp.
The project is being conducted in partnership with real estate developer City Interests, which is funding up to $3 million of the cost of the bridge and providing a 45-‐foot-‐wide property easement for west-‐side stairs and ramp.
More Information The Parkside Pedestrian Bridge project is one of a series of transportation, environmental, economic, community and recreation projects included in the District of Columbia’s larger Anacostia Waterfront Initiative, or AWI Program. From the Tidal Basin to the city’s northeast border with Maryland, the 30-‐year, $10 billion AWI Program is transforming the shores of the Anacostia River into a world-‐class waterfront.
For more information and to follow this projects’ progress, please visit anacostiawaterfront.org/ ParksidePedestrianBridge. To join the project’s community contact list or ask questions, please email [email protected] or call 202-‐741-‐8528.
On the east side of DC 295, the access ramp and stairs between the pedestrian bridge and Minnesota Avenue will be adjacent to the WMATA Bus Station.
On the west side of DC 295, a ramp and stairs will provide access between the pedestrian bridge and Kenilworth Terrace.
In an aerial view of the new pedestrian bridge, the access ramps and stairs on the left are to Kenilworth Terrace and on the right are to Minnesota Avenue and the WMATA Metrorail and Bus Transfer Station
