The District Department of Transportation has issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) for proposed changes to 3rd and Kennedy Street NE (NOI-25-159-MSD). Submit comments to miheret.dirirsa@dc.gov by September 4, 2025.

Proposed changes

• Add a 15-ft wide crosswalk on 3rd St NE at the intersection of 3rd and Kennedy St NE
• Add no-parking zone per DDOT’s Design and Engineering Manual (DEM) to provide visibility
• Install one speed hump and safety signages on Kennedy Street
• Install RRFB (Rectangular Rapid-Flashing Beacon) at the new crosswalk

This is years overdue. There are three schools in this tiny section of the neighborhood. School staff and parents often park along Kennedy as it curves around to 3rd Street creating a blind curve that is dangerous to people in cars, people on bikes, and pedestrians. A school bus was hit at the end of the school year.

Residents have been asking for years, literally, for DDOT to address this issue. We knew it was going to be a problem when DDOT requested that the Cafritz Foundation pay to open up 3rd Street and three charter schools opened up years ago. DDOT shrugged and insisted everything had to be funneled through their ever-changing 311 system. Glad this is finally being addressed, but city officials really need do a lot better about not waiting years to address foreseeable and known problems created by DDOT and development projects.