AWI Transportation Projects
A host of District Department of Transportation (DDOT) transportation projects chronicled on this website will serve as the spine that supports the overall Anacostia Waterfront Initiative. By providing better mobility – for walkers, cyclists, transit riders and drivers – these projects will reconnect communities on both sides to the river and to each other.
See below to learn more about each of the transportation projects included in the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative:
11th Street Bridge Park
The 11th Street Bridge Park, a project of the nonprofit Building Bridges Across the River, will be Washington, DC’s first elevated public park located on the piers of the old 11th Street Bridge spanning the Anacostia River.
11th Street Bridge
By far the largest DDOT project completed to date, the 11th Street Bridge Project is critical to improving travel and achieving the larger vision of the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative.
Anacostia Metro Pedestrian Bridge
The Anacostia Metro Pedestrian Bridge project includes the design of a pedestrian bridge between the south entrance site at the Anacostia Metrorail Station and the Barry Farm development.
Anacostia Riverwalk Trail
The Anacostia Riverwalk Trail serves as a backbone of the Anacostia Waterfront, connecting residents, visitors and communities to the river, one another and numerous commercial and recreational destinations.
Arboretum Bridge and Trail
The Arboretum Bridge and Trail will be a key route designed specifically to provide the missing passageway between the Anacostia Waterfront and the U.S. National Arboretum, which alone garners over 500,000 visitors annually
Interstate-295/Malcolm X Interchange
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) relocation onto the St. Elizabeths Campus requires substantial improvements to the I-295/Malcolm X Interchange and widening Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE to accommodate the expected increase in traffic.
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens Trail
This much-anticipated segment of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail is now complete and provides the missing link in an almost 60-mile network of bicycle and pedestrian trails between the District of Columbia and Maryland.
Lincoln Connector Trail
The Lincoln Connector Trail Project will provide an important connection in Wards 5 and 7 by providing a bike and pedestrian trail connection from Fort Lincoln and surrounding neighborhoods across the Anacostia River to join the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens Segment of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail.
M Street SE-SW Transportation Study
This study identified existing and future transportation challenges and ways to address them within a roughly 1.7-square-mile area along M Street SE/SW.
Parkside Pedestrian Bridge
Provides 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.
Pennsylvania and Potomac Avenues SE Intersection Improvement Study
The Study proposes to enhance safety at these street intersections for neighborhood pedestrians and transit users of the Potomac Avenue Metrorail Station and the numerous area bus stops.
Shepherd Branch Trail
The Shepherd Branch Trail is a proposed 3-mile-long, shared-use path that will extend from the intersection of Firth Sterling Road SE and South Capitol Street SE to E Street SE. The trail would connect the South Capitol Street Trail (currently in the design phase) to the Greenway neighborhood in Anacostia.
South Capitol Street Corridor Project Phase 1 (Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge Project)
This project calls for replacing the 68-year-old bridge and reconstruction of the Suitland Parkway/I-295 interchange.
South Capitol Street Trail
The South Capitol Street Trail Project will extend the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail into the southernmost areas of the District of Columbia, filling a bicycle and pedestrian travel void for local communities.
South Capitol Street Phase 2 Segment IV and V
The South Capitol Street Corridor, located in Ward 6 and Ward 8, serves as a vital access point to and from downtown Washington, DC. This corridor has historical significance, dating back to the L'Enfant Plan, and is a symbolic gateway to the city.
Southeast Boulevard and Barney Circle
DDOT and FHWA are required to conduct studies under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 to understand the environmental impacts of any changes proposed to Southeast Boulevard.