On March 20, the National Park Service announced that it would dismantle a critical piece of Washington, DC’s bike network. Federal officials are targeting a short section of protected bike lanes on 15th Street NW that traverses the National Mall, connecting downtown with neighborhoods in the city’s southwest quadrant, as well as the Tidal Basin and Northern Virginia. The cycle track, which NPS installed on federal land five years ago, would be sacrificed to pursue the Trump administration’s stated goals of reducing traffic congestion and “returning common sense to city planning,” as the Federal Highway Administration put it.
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