DDOT Traffic Advisory: Temporary Closure of Beach Drive NW on March 3 and March 4, 2022

District of Columbia sent this bulletin at 02/24/2022 01:33 PM EST

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 24, 2022

Media Contacts:

German Vigil – (202) 306-1668, german.vigil@dc.gov

Mariam Nabizad – (202) 359-2678, mariam.nabizad@dc.gov

Temporary Closure of Beach Drive NW on March 3 and March 4, 2022

(Washington, D.C.) —The District Department of Transportation (DDOT)will close Beach Drive NW to vehicular and pedestrian traffic between Rock Creek and Potomac Pkwy NW and Tilden Street NW from 8:00pm Thursday, March 3, 2022, through 5:00pm Friday, March 4, 2022, weather permitting.

This temporary closure is necessary to deliver and install bridge girders for the new pedestrian bridge along Beach Drive NW as part of the Rock Creek Park Multi-Use Trail and Pedestrian Bridge project.

Traffic controls, including signage, will be in place to detour vehicle traffic around the work zone. Northbound Beach Drive NW vehicular traffic travelling past Edgewater Stables will be detoured left onto Shoreham Drive NW. Southbound Beach Drive NW vehicular traffic travelling past National Zoo Drive NW will be detoured right onto Tilden Street NW. Beach Drive NW Southbound will remain open to local traffic to National Zoo Drive NW, Piney Branch Parkway NW, and Porter Street NW.

Traffic controls, including signage, will be in place to detour trail users around the work zone. Northbound trail users will be detoured left onto Shoreham Drive NW. Southbound trail users will be detoured right onto Harvard St. NW. Park Police will be stationed at each end of the detour to ensure trail users are directed around the work zone.

Once completed, the Rock Creek Park Multi-Use Trail and Pedestrian Bridge project will improve accessibility and connectivity to Rock Creek Park with improvements such as new and reconstructed trails, and a new 110-foot pedestrian bridge south of the Zoo Tunnel.

For more information about this project and to stay up to date on traffic related impacts and construction progress, please visit https://rock-creek-trail-dcgis.hub.arcgis.com.

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