Streets and Sidewalks Get a Facelift
The District’s Department of Transportation (DDOT) is investing approximately $7.6 million in street improvements in NoMa this fiscal year. Two important projects are underway and will be complete by June 2008: reconstruction of Second Street, N.E. between Massachusetts Avenue and M Street, and reconstruction of four underpasses that run beneath the CSX railroad tracks at Florida Avenue, M Street, L Street, and K Street, N.E. Improvements include new street surfaces, new brick sidewalks, historic-style globe lighting, traffic signals, pedestrian safety measures and a dedicated bike path that will become part of the eight-mile Metropolitan Branch Trail. Later this year, DDOT will begin a $5 million upgrade to the intersection of New York and Florida Avenues, N.E. including pedestrian and vehicular traffic improvements.