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After more than a year of construction and bumpy car and bike rides across Columbus Circle, it looks like streetscaping improvements to the Union Station front entrance are approaching an endpoint.
The Hill is Home snapped a picture of the upgraded crosswalk and roadway this morning.
It looks a lot smoother than the hodgepodge of potholes and manhole cover bumps made during construction.
The project’s estimated price tag is $7.8 million once all is said and done, according to the District Department of Transportation project site.
The National Park Service says the improvements will help serve traffic flow in the busy thoroughfare, used by many drivers, taxi cabs, tour buses, bikers and pedestrians.
The project design will include improved pedestrian safety, separation of vehicles and pedestrians at critical bottleneck locations, creation of new intersections to improve vehicular flow, the re-design of lane widths and traffic signalization patterns, and the rehabilitation of the interior of Columbus Plaza.
And maybe the X8 will once again stop in front of Union Station instead of blocks away … useless.
Let’s not get too ambitious now 😉