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Residents, commissioner press DDOT on outreach, traffic diversion and potential business impacts
Summary
During DDOT’s presentation on the Pennsylvania–Minnesota improvements, multiple residents and an ANC commissioner criticized the timing and scope of outreach, requested crash and bus-test data, and warned that traffic diversion and parking changes could harm local businesses and narrow streets not built for heavy buses.
Residents, neighborhood representatives and an ANC commissioner pressed DDOT staff on community outreach, data transparency and the likely effects of traffic diversion from the Pennsylvania and Minnesota Avenue redesign.
Miss Marsh told the meeting she felt the agency was presenting a "done deal" and demanded the feasibility study and dates for crash data collection. Christine Mayer, DDOT associate director for multimodal safety engineering, said the MPD crash data shown covered February 2021 through February 2026 and that DDOT would post a dashboard with detailed crash records; she also said WMATA had run bus…
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