This post was written by Hatchet reporter Sara Amrozowicz
The city will add three Capital Bikeshare stations near campus, a newly elected member of Foggy Bottom’s top advocacy group announced Wednesday.
The District Department of Transportation will install stations at 20th Street and Virginia Avenue, 23rd and E streets and 21st Street and Constitution Avenue, junior and Advisory Neighborhood commissioner Patrick Kennedy said. The stations will be installed between February and March.
The posts are part of a 53-station expansion across D.C. and parts of Virginia, he said, and will be ready in time for the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
The bike rental launched in D.C. in 2010 and now has more than 175 stations around the Beltway.
Good write-up, Sara. Couple of things:
I misstated the number of new Bikeshare stations in the District at the meeting: There will be 54, as opposed to the 53 that I had ventured.
Additional bits of information: The stations are slated to have between 15 and 19 docks each. Another station is being considered for installation at the intersection of 18th and C Streets, N.W., by Constitution Hall, but that won’t be online with the three mentioned above.
A map of all new (in green), existing (red), and planned (yellow) stations can be seen on this map:
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=204260464431711913240.0004d0d6dcf1369abfffd&msa=0&ll=38.901537,-76.993539&spn=0.009418,0.026071