DDOT Selects Projects for Public Space Enhancement
The District Department of Transportation on Wednesday announced the ten projects that have been selected to receive funding through DDOT's Transportation Enhancement Program. The funding includes grants ranging from $50,000 to $579,500 that go toward making improvements on a variety of transportation related projects. Funding for the program is provided through the Federal Highway Administration. A full list of the selected projects from the DDOT announcement is after the jump.
- Cultural Tourism DC: Planning, design, fabrication and installation of self-guided neighborhood historic and cultural trails and signs.
- Friends of Hardy: Conversion of current public alley, located between Q Place NW and Q Street NW, into a publicly accessible alley rain garden. The alley rain garden will absorb stormwater runoff and accompanying pollutants that flush through the alley into the stormwater drains and Potomac River, and provide a safe and educational public walkway.
- DDOT/District Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR): Landscaping of Carter G. Woodson Park and creation/installation of public art.
- National Museum of Women in the Arts: Development of an allée of major contemporary sculptures and related improvements in the median of New York Avenue between 9th and 13th Streets NW.
- Tivoli North Business Association: Installation of iron tree box fences from 3400 - 3900 blocks of 14th Street NW.
- Mount Pleasant Main Street: Streetscape and safety improvements as called for in the Mt. Pleasant Streetscape Study.
- NOMA Business Improvement District: Landscape design and implementation to enhance the roadwork occurring on and around the New York/ Florida Avenue intersection.
- Barracks Row Main Street: Stabilization of three historic murals along 8th Street SE.
- Downtown Business Improvement District: Improvements to Chinatown Park, bounded by 5th Street, Eye Street, 6th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW.
- Washington Area Bicyclist Association: Bike parking & valet services, creation of a “Room to Breathe” poster, and bike outreach.
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