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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DDOT)
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PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED D.C. CIRCULATOR MAJOR SERVICE CHANGES
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 2018
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The Public Hearing was held in the Miracle Theater, 535 8th Street, SE, Washington, DC, at 7:30 p.m., Sean Egan, Deputy Associate Director of Transit Operations, DDOT, presiding.
PRESENT:
SEAN EGAN, Deputy Associate Director for Transit Operations, DDOT DAVID KOCH, Transportation Analyst, DDOT CIRCE TORRUELLAS, Citywide Planner, DDOT SAM ZIMBABWE, Chief Project Delivery Officer, DDOT
ALSO PRESENT:
RACHEL LESNIAK, Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning DAVID MILLER, Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning
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2 7:31 p.m.
3 MR. EGAN: All right. If everyone
4 could please take their seats, we'd really like
5 to get started. So, good evening, everyone.
6 On behalf of the District Department
7 of Transportation, I'd like to welcome you to
8 tonight's public hearing for the major service
9 changes that we're proposing.
10 So, my name's Sean Egan. I'm the
11 Deputy Associate Director for Transit Operations
12 at DDOT, and I have some other DDOT colleagues
13 that I'm joined by here tonight, that some of you
14 met during the Q & A session.
15 So, I'm joined by Circe Torruellas,
16 there, who's the Manager of the D.C. Circulator
17 Program, as well as Sam Zimbabwe, who's the Chief
18 Project Delivery Officer for DDOT.
19 So, if you have additional questions
20 after the presentation and speakers, please come
21 and see us. We'll also be supported by our
22 planning team from Foursquare Integrated
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1 Transportation Planning, who will be facilitating
2 the event for us tonight.
3 So, just to give you a quick
4 understanding of what we're going to be doing
5 tonight, we're going to give a brief overview of
6 the Circulator system.
7 We're going to talk about the 2017
8 transit development plan process. We're going to
9 explain the major service changes, and then, the
10 public hearing process.
11 So, after this brief presentation,
12 there will be an opportunity for public comment.
13 So, the DC Circulator has six easy to understand
14 routes.
15 We provide high frequency service, so
16 that's service every 10 minutes, all day. We
17 have a simple and affordable $1 fare structure,
18 and we have distinctive, comfortable buses for
19 our riders.
20 So, our goals for the system are to
21 provide high quality service to maximize the
22 financial and operational return on investment,
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1 to promote economic activity in existing and
2 developing activity centers, and support a
3 transit-oriented lifestyle, and to strengthen the
4 surface transportation network across the
5 District for all users.
6 So, the recommendations that you see
7 here tonight are the result of our TDP process.
8 That's a transit development plan.
9 So, every three years, we look at our
10 system and look at ways that we might be able to
11 improve our system. So, the previous version was
12 done in 2014, and this is the 2017 version.
13 So, in late 2016, we began the
14 development process. We looked at our service to
15 determine areas where we needed improvements.
16 We did some preliminary
17 recommendations that looked at the constraints of
18 our service, the number of buses that we have,
19 the funding that we have for buses, and how we
20 could make the best use of those resources.
21 We got input from our stakeholders,
22 and then we put all of that together to do a
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1 Phase 1 public outreach that we did during June
2 of 2017.
3 So, we got input, we went out to
4 community events and high ridership locations
5 across the District. We got input from more than
6 2,600 respondents through that public process in
7 June of 2017.
8 We took those comments under
9 consideration, and we revised the recommendations
10 based on that feedback, and we released a draft
11 report in September of 2017.
12 We asked for comments on that, and we
13 got more than 800 comments from the public on the
14 draft report in September. We made some
15 additional revisions, and then we released the
16 final report in December.
17 So, just to give you a sense of the
18 system that we have in place, we provided over
19 five million trips in 2016. With that said, the
20 system is struggling with on-time performance.
21 That's primarily due to maintenance issues.
22 So, when buses are out of service for
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1 maintenance, they're not available, and that's
2 hurt, really hurt our on-time performance.
3 So, the major initiative that we're
4 doing with that is to solicit a new contract for
5 the service, for the operations and maintenance.
6 Our new solicitation is focused on
7 improving safety and training, and really focused
8 on system performance and addressing the
9 shortfalls that we see.
10 So, the two routes that drew the most
11 focus from our analysis were the Potomac Avenue
12 Metro-Skyland via Barracks Row, and the Union
13 Station-Navy Yard Metro routes.
14 So, what we see on the Potomac Avenue
15 Skyland route is low ridership. We see poor on-
16 time performance, and we see trip generators.
17 So, those are areas where there's
18 activity that aren't providing ridership
19 throughout the day. So, there's not enough
20 ridership, based on the activities that are
21 happening in the corridor to support the 10
22 minute ridership all day, or 10 minute service
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1 all day every day.
2 And we also experienced significant
3 delays on Good Hope Road during rush hour. We
4 see a lot of similar issues on the Union Station-
5 Navy Yard Metro.
6 The low ridership, particularly on
7 midday, and on the weekends, again, the ridership
8 activity areas aren't providing all day service.
9 We see a lot of commuter use, but not
10 as much midday and evening use of the service.
11 And then, we have a high number of bus stops per
12 mile, so that slows down the service and makes it
13 less attractive to customers.
14 So, the major service changes that
15 we're proposing are on the Potomac Avenue Metro
16 Skyland route, the Union Station-Navy Yard Metro
17 route, the Georgetown-Union Station route, and
18 then, to the paper passes that are valid only on
19 the Circulator.
20 So, if you look at the Potomac Avenue
21 Skyland route, you can see the line with the
22 white down the middle of it is the current route.
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1 So, the current route, we talked about some of
2 the challenges that that's having.
3 So, what we wanted to do was to look
4 at ways that we could serve some activity centers
5 that would be providing ridership all day
6 everyday.
7 And so, could we reconfigure that
8 route to serve Union Station, as well as Congress
9 Heights?
10 So, this will provide a one-seat ride
11 from east of the river to Union Station, a faster
12 connection using Massachusetts Avenue and 8th
13 Street between Union Station and the Navy Yard
14 complex.
15 It reduces overlap with existing
16 service on Pennsylvania Avenue and Good Hope
17 Road. And when we did go out to the public, the
18 majority of the respondents in both June and
19 September gave us positive feedback on this.
20 So, this would serve from Union
21 Station, Eastern Market, Barracks Row, Navy Yard,
22 downtown Anacostia, Stanton Road, and then the
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1 Congress Heights Metro. And it would replace the
2 existing Metro Bus 94 service.
3 So, and the, on the Navy Yard route,
4 instead of starting at Union Station, the route
5 would start at Eastern Market.
6 It'll continue down 8th, like it does
7 today, and west, past the Navy Yard, all the way
8 to the Southwest Waterfront, serving the
9 Waterfront Metro Station, and some of the new
10 development that we're seeing in the Southwest
11 Waterfront area, and then coming up to L'Enfant
12 Plaza to connect with five Metro rail lines, VRE,
13 and a number of bus services.
14 So, it would have a new, there would
15 be a new connectivity between Eastern Market,
16 Barracks Row, the Navy Yard, Southwest
17 Waterfront, and L'Enfant Plaza.
18 It would operate year round, Saturday
19 and Sunday. It would serve some new attractions
20 like the Wharf, the Museum of the Bible, the Spy
21 Museum, and it will reconnect Circulator service
22 in the Southwest Waterfront area. So, that's the
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1 proposed change for that.
2 And so, you can see from the next
3 slide that we understand the importance of the
4 link between the Union Station and the Navy Yard,
5 and so that link is preserved on the orange
6 route.
7 And then, for any riders who want to
8 make those connections, they can, they can have a
9 free transfer with their SmarTrip card between
10 the orange and blue, and have access to either of
11 those routes and all of those destinations that
12 you see on the map there.
13 So, on the Georgetown-Union Station,
14 we're proposing to make our regular late night
15 service between McPherson Square and Union
16 Station from 9:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m.
17 Right, as we previously had it
18 configured, we're only serving half of the route
19 at night, so we would have late night service for
20 the full length of the Union Station to
21 Georgetown route, and we would also operate the
22 route regularly until 3:00 a.m. on the weekends.
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1 This was an initiative that we took as
2 part of the SafeTrack Program, and we want to
3 make that a regular part of our service.
4 So, on fare media, we sell a small
5 number of unlimited use paper passes for the DC
6 Circulator. They're used by less than 2 percent
7 of our riders, and we're really trying to
8 encourage our riders to move to electronic fare
9 payment.
10 So, riders who want an unlimited bus
11 pass can use the Regional SmarTrip Pass, and they
12 get unlimited rides on Circulator, as well as
13 Metro bus and the region's other bus services
14 with the SmarTrip pass.
15 And there's no change proposed to the
16 $1 per trip base fare for the Circulator. So,
17 we've undertaken a service equity analysis.
18 So, for service equity, we look at the
19 positive and negative impacts of proposed service
20 changes, and then, we look in particular at the
21 impacts on low income populations and minority
22 populations, and compare those relative to the
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1 non-minority and non-low income populations.
2 So, we looked at the package of
3 proposals here, and we found that there is no
4 disparate impact on minority populations, and no
5 disproportionate burden on low income populations
6 as a result of this.
7 So, there are, the positive changes
8 are the new service, additional hours. And then,
9 the discontinued service areas, on net, there was
10 no disparate impact or disproportionate burden.
11 So, we'll move now into the public
12 hearing process. So, we'll be calling speakers
13 up.
14 There will be microphones here, and
15 this microphone will be relocated down here.
16 Speakers can come up to the microphone.
17 Everything, please walk up as soon as
18 your name is called. Everything you say will be
19 recorded and entered into the public record.
20 Each speaker will have an allocated
21 amount of time, three minutes for members of the
22 public, five minutes for elected officials, such
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1 as Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners.
2 The staff will give you a one minute
3 warning, and there will be a buzzer sound when
4 time is up.
5 We really want to make sure that
6 everyone has an opportunity to participate and
7 provide their comments tonight. So, we greatly
8 appreciate keeping to the established time.
9 And all of our comments will be
10 reviewed, whether they're presented here in the
11 hearing, or whether they're presented as part of
12 our public comment period.
13 So, one of the changes that we want to
14 just quickly note here is we heard from many of
15 you during the, during the question and answer
16 period that you thought there should be
17 additional time made available for comment.
18 We had initially planned to close the
19 public comment period on January 19th, and what
20 we're going to be doing is, based on the feedback
21 that we heard tonight, we're going to be
22 extending that to February 5th.
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1 So, that will be a month from
2 tomorrow. And that'll give us some additional
3 time to get the word out about these proposals,
4 and it'll give our riders and residents more time
5 to participate in the process with us.
6 So, with that, we'll be taking a seat.
7 We won't be able to respond to the comments, but
8 we are listening and recording, and we're going
9 to be taking note of all of the comments provided
10 here.
11 MR. MILLER: Good evening. My name is
12 David Miller. I am a consultant for the District
13 Department of Transportation.
14 I'm going to help facilitate the
15 public speaking portion of this hearing. Sean
16 outlined how this will be carried out. I have a
17 few additional details.
18 I will be calling you up in the order
19 that you signed up. A few people signed up
20 online. They will get to go first. And those
21 that signed up tonight will then go in the order
22 that they signed up.
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1 At the end of that, I will ask if
2 anyone else who may be here would like to give
3 their comments. You will be given the same
4 amount of time.
5 Members of the public receive three
6 minutes of speaking time. At two minutes, I will
7 wave at you, and if you, and if you don't notice
8 me, I'll say one minute into my mic, and I'll try
9 and be as unobtrusive as possible.
10 At three minutes, I do have a timer
11 that will chime on my phone, and we ask that you
12 would respect that time for the sake of those who
13 will be following you in the speaking process.
14 Elected officials will be given five
15 minutes to speak. So, with that, I would like to
16 call up the first speaker who has asked to
17 participate tonight. Maria Thompson. Please
18 step up to the mic, and state your name for the
19 record.
20 MS. THOMPSON: Good evening. My name
21 is Maria Markham, M-A-R-K-H-A-M, Thompson, T-H-O-
22 M-P-S-O-N. It is not hyphenated.
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1 I will give you the highlights of what
2 I have to say, and then I will send actually
3 written comments.
4 I use the Circulator, the Navy Yard
5 route, to get from Union Station when I get off
6 the MARC train, to get up to Capitol Hill. I
7 have a disability. I cannot make that walk.
8 It is 1.2 miles, and you go from 33
9 feet above sea level to 88 feet above sea level
10 when you pass the US Supreme Court. That is
11 quite a rise, 55 feet inside of a mile.
12 And there are many other people with
13 disabilities who ride the bus with me, and the
14 loss of the service from Union Station to Capitol
15 Hill, which is what happens, even though you have
16 that nice black arrow that gets from Union
17 Station out to the Navy Yard, I'm not going to
18 the Navy Yard.
19 I need to get up to Capitol Hill, and
20 I do not have other good transit operations,
21 options. The bus that was there, the 96, no
22 longer runs during the day.
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1 You have rump service left. That
2 doesn't even cover all of the peak time on the
3 97.
4 The Metro require is twice as long
5 because I have to travel from Union Station to
6 Metro and come back out, and it doubles the cost.
7 It's a $2 ride, even on SmarTrip.
8 And I have to do a multi-level change
9 to get from red line to the orange line. That is
10 not options for me. I need this bus to be able
11 to go to work.
12 And I have some real problems with the
13 way the analysis was done. First of all, in the
14 equity analysis, DC's own rule, 18503, indicates
15 that the analysis should be done based on
16 ridership.
17 It wasn't done based on ridership. It
18 was done based on the population living on
19 Capitol Hill, which has a lower level of minority
20 people, and low, and fewer low income people.
21 But in the count that I will provide
22 to you, that I took from the time the final
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1 report was released --
2 MR. MILLER: One minute.
3 MS. THOMPSON: -- yesterday, I found
4 that the ridership is 75 percent minority.
5 Not only that, there's a large
6 population using the bus who work at the Library
7 of Congress under, what we call AbilityOne
8 contracts, that give employment to people with
9 disabilities.
10 And those people were not included
11 because you didn't count ridership. You looked
12 at residency.
13 So, and finally, you did note that you
14 got a lot more negative comments than you had in
15 the past because doing neighborhood outreach, but
16 never coming down to Union Station to look at the
17 people who are using this as the end of their
18 commute left out an important segment.
19 So, in closing, what I wish to say to
20 you is that the DC Circulator should continue
21 providing service from Union Station to Eastern
22 Market until such time that the determination to
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1 end it is based on well-supported research of the
2 ridership.
3 And further, it must not be allowed to
4 end until there is a sound plan and enforceable
5 agreement with WMATA has been implemented to
6 replace the service. Thank you.
7 MR. MILLER: Thank you. The next
8 speaker is Ken Jarboe. Please state your name
9 for the record, and then you'll have three
10 minutes.
11 MR. JARBOE: My name is Ken Jarboe.
12 I'm a member of the Board of Directors of the
13 Capitol Hill BID, and I'm testifying on behalf of
14 the BID. The BID strongly supports -- usually
15 people don't have trouble hearing me.
16 (Laughter)
17 MR. JARBOE: As some folks in this
18 room know. The BID strongly supports the
19 extension of the route from Eastern Market to the
20 Waterfront, and the service, and the extension of
21 the service hours, especially on weekends, and
22 the longer hours in the evenings.
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1 We would prefer that the route from
2 Eastern Market to Union Station remain as part of
3 that route.
4 So, it becomes the Union Station to
5 Eastern Market, the Navy Yard, the Waterfront-
6 Wharf route.
7 Understanding that they may not
8 happen, our, we would support the two routes,
9 maintaining some connection from Union Station to
10 Eastern Market, but we would have three requests
11 or issues with that particular route.
12 First, there needs to be a single
13 point at Union Station where all the routes meet,
14 not routes on the Union Station-Capitol Hill
15 route on one side of Union Station, and then the
16 Georgetown and other routes on the other side.
17 That leaves people wandering around,
18 trying to figure out how to connect between the
19 buses.
20 Second, we would urge you to use the
21 4th Street-6th Street connection between Mass
22 Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue, rather than 8th
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1 Street.
2 In fact, I was at an ANC meeting last
3 night where the residents on 8th Street are
4 talking about the fact that that road can no
5 longer handle the capacity that's already on
6 there of trucks and buses.
7 Also, if you use the 4th and 6th
8 Street, you at least have some stops that are
9 closer to the business on the 200 and 300 block
10 of Pennsylvania Avenue.
11 So, we would urge you to use those two
12 streets as the, if you put that route in place,
13 to use those two streets.
14 And the final one, which I know you'll
15 hear a lot more of, and you've got to do
16 something about that D Street turnaround.
17 The craziness of what I call the
18 coffee corner where D Street, where Starbucks and
19 Dunkin' Donuts, is --
20 MR. MILLER: One minute.
21 MR. JARBOE: -- already crazy. And
22 so, adding a left turn from the buses onto there
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1 is just going to exacerbate it.
2 I don't have an easy answer to that.
3 The easy answer is just to continue up to Union
4 Station and do the turnaround there, but that
5 would be our preference. Thank you.
6 MR. MILLER: Thank you for your
7 comments. The next speaker is Jennifer Garlick.
8 Jennifer Garlick, are you present? No?
9 Okay. We'll move on. Our next
10 speaker is Richard Reinhard. Richard? Either
11 mic is fine.
12 MR. REINHARD: Thank you. I'm Richard
13 Reinhard, Chief Administrative Officer of the
14 United Methodist Church General Board of Church
15 and Society.
16 The General Board of Church and
17 Society of the church is extremely disappointed
18 in DDOT's decision to eliminate DC Circulator
19 service from the 1st Street corridor of Capitol
20 Hill.
21 The United Methodist building is
22 located at 100 and 110 Maryland Avenue, NE at the
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1 corner of 1st Street, NE. Our buildings house
2 more than two dozen faith-based and social
3 justice agencies.
4 In addition to our employees, we host
5 large numbers of visitors at our historic
6 buildings.
7 The US Capitol Visitors Center gets
8 2.5 million visitors a year. The Library of
9 Congress gets 1.5 million visitors a year.
10 Your figures show somewhat low
11 ridership for the part of the route that serves
12 these major tourist and employee hubs, but I can
13 tell you from first-hand experience, and if we
14 had more time, I could tell you two dozen
15 interactions I've had with tourists.
16 A tourist would have to be almost
17 clairvoyant to figure out where the Circulator
18 goes from that very busy block. It's a mess.
19 The fact is, you are choosing to serve
20 large private sector interests on the Southwest
21 Waterfront instead of public and nonprofit
22 interests on Capitol Hill.
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1 You might figure out a way to do both.
2 Given the lack of viable Metro bus routes along
3 the 1st Street corridor, the architect of the
4 Capitols and Capitol Police's severe bike sharing
5 restrictions were about to become a bit of a
6 public transportation high desert between Union
7 Station and the Capitol South Metro.
8 You are making these world class
9 attractions tougher to experience, not easier.
10 We appreciate the DDOT director's promise to
11 investigate ways to expand the Metro bus 97 route
12 to cover full peak periods, and I would add
13 greater frequency, but we would respectfully
14 suggest, as the woman earlier said, that maybe
15 that should be worked out before the changes are
16 made.
17 I just want to add that six major
18 attractions on the Hill, on Monday, for the first
19 time, were getting together to talk about
20 promoting that corridor as a cultural corridor.
21 But unfortunately, it appears we're going to be
22 doing it without public transit. Thank you.
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1 MR. MILLER: Thank you for your
2 comments. Okay. I'm going to call up two
3 people, one to each mic.
4 The next person is Ivan Frishberg.
5 Please come to the mic. And then, Lucy Leavitt,
6 if you could come to the other mic, and once Ivan
7 is done, then your time will begin.
8 MR. FRISHBERG: Thank you. My name is
9 Ivan Frishberg. I am here primarily to speak to
10 the fact that you are going down to Jefferson
11 Academy.
12 When you describe the end of the
13 Circulator route, you mentioned three private
14 institutions, the Wharf, the Bible Museum, and
15 the Spy Museum, and you forgot that you have two
16 other government agencies, DGS, supporting a
17 school, which is getting a new $70 million
18 renovation where we're trying to connect Capitol
19 Hill families to their by-right middle school,
20 and it was like you accidently got there because
21 it was near a big developer development.
22 So, I didn't want to let this go by
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1 without saying the connection to that school,
2 between the by-right elementary schools and the
3 by-right middle school is really important, and
4 you'll hear about that in a minute.
5 The, I do have concern about the sort
6 of, there's vagaries about where the stop is
7 going to be there, and consistent with safe route
8 to schools and making that stop accessible for
9 kids getting on and off that bus, and having a
10 clear, safe shot from the bus into the school.
11 The location of that stop is really, really
12 important.
13 Plus, I think if you put a middle
14 school stop next to the Wharf, you'll hear about
15 it from the fancy developers at the Wharf, as my
16 friends from behind development will tell you.
17 The turnaround, as Ken Jarboe was saying, is
18 super problematic.
19 It's better than it was the other way,
20 which would've been a complete disaster. The
21 suggestions, I think you'll hear more about
22 these.
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1 One is take a left on E Street where
2 there's a light, go up 7th. It's kind of narrow
3 there, but still, and then, you could take a
4 right on Pennsylvania Avenue.
5 The other is to keep going down
6 Pennsylvania Avenue from 8th, take a right onto
7 6th Street, and utilize either Independence or
8 North Carolina, which are big streets, before you
9 loop back onto 8th Street.
10 Those are wide streets. The advantage
11 of going up North Carolina is you actually get to
12 directly serve Eastern Market, and around as you
13 pull, other government facilities.
14 MR. MILLER: One minute.
15 MR. FRISHBERG: Final comments are I
16 think all the Circulators should be electric. I
17 think there's a way to use on-bill financing to
18 help pay for that, and you don't need to use our
19 capital dollars.
20 It could be better spent elsewhere for
21 infrastructure in the District. That will help
22 you integrate the bus system more into the
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1 neighborhoods, make it more accessible, reduce
2 pollution, get ahead of the price in carbon
3 that's coming.
4 And so, I'd encourage you to rapidly
5 move beyond the pilot that you're in now to an
6 all-electric system. Thank you very much.
7 MR. MILLER: Thank you for your
8 comments. Lucy?
9 MS. LEAVITT: Hi. My name is Lucy
10 Leavitt, and I think that a Circulator from
11 Eastern Market to Jefferson Academy is really
12 important to me.
13 One reason I think it could be, like,
14 really helpful is that I can be more independent,
15 rather than my mom and dad having to walk or
16 drive me to school, and my, and I can just go and
17 be ready for the future.
18 Another reason that it's, that I think
19 an Eastern Market to Jefferson Academy Circulator
20 is important because it's more safe.
21 For example, instead of going to the
22 Metro with many strangers, I can be on the bus
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1 with maybe a few people I know.
2 Another example is that the Metro can
3 get stuck, while the Circulator bus can just go
4 straight.
5 One suggestion that I have to stop
6 having a stop really close to Jefferson Academy,
7 but a safe, a safe stop for students to go back
8 home from school.
9 All of this proves that the Circulator
10 from Eastern Market to Jefferson Academy is
11 really important and helps our community. Thank
12 you.
13 MR. MILLER: Thank you for your
14 comments. Has Jennifer Garlic arrived? Okay.
15 Our next speaker is Saul Schniderman, and then,
16 if Caitlin Hughes Rayman could come up to the
17 other mic, that would be appreciated.
18 MR. SCHNIDERMAN: Hi.
19 MR. MILLER: Please --
20 MR. SCHNIDERMAN: I'm Saul
21 Schniderman. I'm the President of the Library of
22 Congress Professional Guild, which is affiliated
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1 with AFSCME Local 2910.
2 I'm not speaking here on behalf of the
3 Library of Congress, but I am speaking on behalf
4 of the staff members that we represent, which in
5 this case is 1,500 professionals who held a
6 protest meeting about a month and a half ago and
7 passed a resolution in opposition to the proposal
8 to end the DC Circulator route between Union
9 Station and the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
10 And the resolution that came out of
11 that, which was passed by our members, said, be
12 it resolved that DDOT continue to provide
13 Circulator service to Capitol Hill so that all
14 people, especially those with disabilities, have
15 this safe, reliable means to travel between Union
16 Station and Capitol Hill to access employment and
17 opportunities for research and tourism, and
18 furtherance of DDOT's stated goal to "promote
19 economic activity by facilitating visitor access
20 to Capitol Hill neighborhoods".
21 This is the gateway to the nation's
22 capital, to the Library of Congress. We have a
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1 new librarian who is, emphasis, just started
2 about a year ago, who is emphasizing the public
3 aspect of the Library of Congress.
4 Many of the people who commute, the
5 staff that we represent, are disabled. We have
6 an aging population at the Library of Congress.
7 They depend upon this service.
8 And to discontinue it without an
9 adequate replacement, the 97 bus does not do it
10 for our people, so they told me to come down here
11 and advocate, not only for the interest of the
12 staff that work on Capitol Hill, but also to the
13 public who, I agree with Mr. Reinhard who spoke
14 here today.
15 Many people on Capitol Hill don't know
16 about the Circulator bus, and whenever you take
17 service away, it enlightens them, and believe me,
18 the staff at the Library of Congress, as well as
19 a lot the managers, are enlightened on this issue
20 and watching what you're going to do. Thank you.
21 MR. MILLER: Thank you for your, thank
22 you for your comments. Caitlin?
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1 MS. HUGHES RAYMAN: Good evening. I'm
2 Caitlin Hughes Rayman. I live at 1025 1st
3 Street, SE, right at the end of the loop that you
4 would propose to remove, which I, frankly,
5 support the removal of that little node.
6 But thank you for looking to improve
7 the service in general. My comments speak to
8 opportunities that I think have been missed, and
9 I'd like you to consider them fully.
10 One thing to note is that the current
11 Navy Yard to Union Station loop provides unique
12 connectivity between the orange and blue, green,
13 and red Metro lines. I think that is fairly
14 unusual.
15 There doesn't appear to be any other
16 type of service that does that in that area, and
17 I think if there are Metro issues, it's nice to
18 have that redundancy, as well as that direct
19 connection through the, what was previously
20 described as a desert of transit across the
21 Capitol.
22 So, the bikes that, a lot of people
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1 are using bikes now, which is great, but they're
2 a little bit too challenging to make that north-
3 south connection from Union Station to the Navy
4 Yards Park area.
5 Bikes are too challenging for the
6 elderly, mobility challenged, families with
7 strollers, and kids on their way to school.
8 Walking is actually fairly dangerous
9 in that particular corridor, and I tangentially
10 encourage you to put a traffic light at I Street
11 and New Jersey Avenue where there's a lot of
12 pedestrian and vehicular traffic interaction
13 that's only growing as the growing development
14 continues. But those connections to the US
15 Senate and House are very important.
16 Also, for people who work at the
17 Department of Transportation and other business
18 in the area that need to connect to the Hill.
19 The current route connects a housing
20 complex, which I believe is populated by people
21 who are mobility challenged on 4th Street and M,
22 to Union Station, which has Amtrak service,
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1 Greyhound Bus station, and a large Kaiser
2 Permanente complex.
3 So, I think that would be a loss of
4 connectivity for those folks, especially if
5 they're asked to transfer, get off a Circulator
6 and onto another, as proposed in the new route.
7 And growth is occurring.
8 There's nine buildings with over 2,800
9 units, residential units that are coming onboard.
10 They're being developed right now.
11 MR. MILLER: One minute.
12 MS. HUGHES RAYMAN: Thank you. And
13 another 12 more to come between just South
14 Capitol Street and 8th Street.
15 I don't think you've done enough
16 marketing, frankly. The bottom line is you could
17 do more for tourism.
18 You could do more for mobility and
19 access, and for safety and efficiency, manage the
20 growing car traffic, and the bike/pedestrian
21 interactions, which are currently dangerous, by
22 keeping people on transit.
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1 So, my proposal is do aggressive
2 outreach for your existing service first. Go to
3 all the new buildings. Go to the buildings that
4 are coming online and market it. Go to the
5 events.
6 You know, when the, when the soccer
7 stadium opens up, market it there. Understand
8 your marketing opportunities. Do a study on
9 marketing opportunities.
10 Then, finally, link and extend. I
11 like the new service out to Southwest, but don't
12 lose the connectivity to Union Station.
13 Make that a longer route. You
14 eliminate the node where I live. That's fine.
15 Keep it out of the residential areas.
16 Circulate more frequently. The buses
17 stop in front of there and wait and wait and
18 wait. They should keep moving.
19 And then, finally, pull into Union
20 Station. That last connectivity piece is
21 critical, and I think that's part of why you're
22 not getting the ridership. Thanks.
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1 MR. MILLER: Thank you for your
2 comments. Our next two speakers are Chandra
3 Shawn and Trina Robertson. Chandra Shawn.
4 And then, if Trina Robertson, if
5 you're here, if you could come up to the other
6 mic. Sir, please state your name.
7 MR. SHAWN: Thank you very much for
8 giving me a chance to stand here. I know you ran
9 a Circulator bus from DC to Virginia.
10 I would like to know whether you have
11 any chance of running a Circulator bus from DC to
12 Silver Spring.
13 The second one, is there a possibility
14 that bus can be run from a point to point
15 service. The bus starts at DC and stops at
16 Silver Spring. Starts at Silver Spring and stop
17 only at DC.
18 By these, running this four services
19 in the peak time can easily move the crowd from
20 one point to another point.
21 These two things I would like to bring
22 to attention. As you are running Circulator to
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1 Virginia, I think the Maryland also deserves a
2 Circulator. Thank you.
3 MR. MILLER: All right. Thank you for
4 your comments, sir. Trina Robertson? No. Okay.
5 Moving on, next speaker is Heather Foote. Please
6 come to the mic. You have three minutes.
7 And then, if Commissioner Robin Marlin
8 could come to the other microphone and prepare to
9 speak. Please state your name.
10 MS. FOOTE: My name is Heather Foote.
11 I'm Transportation Outreach Manager with Capitol
12 Hill Village, which is a block south here.
13 We work, among other things, on
14 promoting pedestrian bicycle and driver safety,
15 as well as alternative transportation for older
16 adults.
17 My comment doesn't address
18 specifically the Circulator routes, but rather is
19 a request that DDOT be in communication with
20 WMATA about a budget decision last year that
21 eliminated the only indoor place where older
22 adults can purchase the senior SmarTrip card.
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1 There was a sales office at Metro
2 Center station, which was eliminated due to
3 budget cuts, apparently, or budget priorities.
4 And now, if you want to purchase the
5 card, you need to go to Metro Headquarters, which
6 is outdoors.
7 There's no indoor place, or to
8 Virginia or Maryland, where you can buy the
9 SmarTrip card at a Metro Center indoors. Thank
10 you.
11 MR. MILLER: Thank you for your
12 comments. Commissioner, you have five minutes.
13 COMMISSIONER MARLIN: Okay. Good
14 evening. My name is Robin Hammond Marlin. I'm
15 the ANC Commissioner for 7B. Sorry. I should be
16 used to this by now. 7B.
17 Also, I'm speaking on behalf of my
18 single member district, and I'm also speaking on
19 behalf of one of four people that got together
20 almost 10 years ago to get the Circulator in our
21 community.
22 That would be the Skyland route for
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1 the Circulator. We have approximately nine
2 neighborhoods within 7B, starting from Hillcrest,
3 Naylor Gardens, Fairfax Village, Fort Davis, Penn
4 Branch, Dupont Park, Twining, and Minnesota
5 Avenue and Gateway.
6 We have four shopping centers, two
7 schools, two recreation centers, and a library.
8 So, I stand here to say to you that we have a
9 need for the Circulator.
10 I noted on your presentation when you
11 talked about the reasons for eliminating the
12 Circulator for the Skyland area, and one that
13 really just got my goat was when you mentioned
14 that it gets hung up in the traffic on Good Hope
15 Road.
16 And I say that because your companion
17 transportation partner, WMATA, is constantly
18 trying to eliminate our bus routes.
19 I have battled with WMATA to maintain
20 the 30s lines for years. I have constituents
21 here that can attest to that.
22 So, I'm asking myself, why is DDOT
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1 constantly, because they also work with WMATA to
2 try to eliminate the 30s lines.
3 Why are you constantly overruling our
4 community? And I've seen that these things are
5 quality of life amenities for us.
6 And I enjoin with Commissioner
7 Muhammad in saying that the communication was not
8 towards ANC 7B.
9 No one contacted me, and the route
10 dead ends in my member district. And it's a
11 little insulting to have to get the information
12 by hearsay, because I did attend the DDOT ANC
13 open house two months ago, and I was told that
14 this project was going to be forthcoming to my
15 SMD, and we would hear about it.
16 But as an ANC commissioner for over 10
17 years, it's unconscionable that you all would try
18 to move forward with the, with the process, that
19 you haven't even come out to our neighborhood to
20 speak to the ANC, the civic association, or the
21 residents about it.
22 And I really speak personally that I
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1 worked too hard to get the Circulator there, and
2 to just take it away without justification, you
3 talk about ridership, perhaps you have two people
4 getting on that line at the Skyland and Denver
5 Street area, but as it moves along, I'm sure you
6 pick up ridership.
7 The only place that I can think of
8 that you're going to get a packed bus is at a
9 Metro station, or somewhere like that.
10 So, I'm tired of hearing about this
11 ridership issue in Hillcrest and the Naylor
12 Gardens and Fairfax Village because people do
13 ride the bus, but we may not come out in a crowd,
14 but we still need to be able to access a bus and
15 get to where we're going.
16 So, I'm asking you all to come out to
17 our community before you move forward. You can
18 make arrangements with me or the civic
19 association, and speak to the residents. Thank
20 you.
21 MR. MILLER: Thank you for your
22 comments, Commissioner. Our next speaker, just
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1 checking real quickly, Trina Robertson? Okay.
2 Or Jennifer Garlic? Okay. All right.
3 Our next speaker is Galin Brooks.
4 Galin, are you here? Okay. Leah Daniels. Oh,
5 sorry. Galin, she's here. She's coming. All
6 right.
7 If, Leah Daniels, if you could come to
8 the other mic, that would be fantastic. Thank
9 you. You have three minutes. Please state your
10 name.
11 MS. BROOKS: Thank you. Hi. Thank
12 you for listening to my comments today. My name
13 is Galin Brooks. I'm the planning director for
14 the NoMa Business Improvement District.
15 My comments are related to the TDP,
16 and I'll keep them brief. We applaud DDOT for
17 working hard to improve service delivery for the
18 Circulator throughout the District, and fully
19 support its efforts to provide reliable and
20 efficient transit for all users.
21 Due to the exceptional growth in the
22 NoMa neighborhood, the 2014 TDP recommended the
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1 study of a new route to serve the NoMa
2 neighborhood, a major activity hub.
3 In 2015, the NoMa neighborhood was
4 looked at as a potential new area of service for
5 the Circulator.
6 There was much excitement about this
7 effort, and outlets like City Paper and Greater
8 Greater Washington ran articles about it, and
9 over 900 people responded to the project survey.
10 However, since then, no further study
11 has been shared, nor a preferred route
12 determined.
13 So, on behalf of the community of
14 people who were excited about this new transit
15 service, we urge DDOT to further study a
16 potential route to service this growing area.
17 Those are my comments. Thank you very much.
18 MR. MILLER: Thank you. Please state
19 your name.
20 MS. DANIELS: Hi. My name is Leah
21 Daniels. I own Hill's Kitchen, which is in the
22 700 block of D Street, SE, which is right at the
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1 roundabout that is currently proposed for the
2 terminus for the Eastern Market-Waterfront.
3 I actually love the idea of having the
4 bus go down to the Waterfront. No complaints.
5 It goes by the baseball stadium. Thrilled.
6 However, D Street is a very small
7 street. Currently, it does not have ample room
8 for the current traffic that is serving it.
9 Everyday there are backups. There are
10 frequent car accidents, and it frankly cannot
11 take a bus.
12 As the street is proposed to be turned
13 around, which I'm actually opposed to, it would
14 have the bus turn west on D Street from 8th
15 Street at an intersection that currently does not
16 have a stop sign or a stop light, having it then
17 turn around on 7th Street, going north on 7th
18 Street, and then east again on Pennsylvania
19 Avenue.
20 They're just, the streets are too
21 small. Even having the bus go down E Street and
22 7th Street, it's too small.
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1 Ivan's suggestion of having the bus go
2 down 6th Street to North Carolina, serving the
3 Rumsey Aquatic Center, as well as Eastern Market,
4 sounds great to me, and I've, I love the idea of
5 having it continue to Union Station as well.
6 I guess that, really, what I'm saying
7 is D Street needs to be looked at more carefully
8 for, before a decision is made. So --
9 MR. MILLER: Thank you for your
10 comments. Our next speaker that signed up,
11 actually, the last one that signed up, I will
12 check after that to see if anyone else would like
13 to speak, is Kimberly Mitchell. Please state
14 your name for the record, and then you'll have
15 three minutes.
16 MS. MITCHELL: Hi. Good evening. My
17 name is Kimberly Mitchell. I am a UFCW Local 400
18 member. We're unionized and this is actually the
19 first time I actually came to one of these
20 hearings, and it is amazing.
21 I want to tell you thank you for
22 putting on this show, because as far as what I
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1 can tell, and what's actually happening is really
2 one attack on one neighborhood is attack on all
3 of our neighborhoods.
4 But I used to actually work at
5 L'Enfant Plaza, and I am familiar, very much,
6 with that area, of how many tourism actually
7 comes through that location, and how they're not
8 able to get from L'Enfant Plaza down to the
9 various museums and things like that.
10 And after visiting the new location at
11 the Wharf, and everything, and going to the Bible
12 Institute, and all those things, and realizing
13 that the Hoffman Developers who developed the
14 Wharf, which, you know, made these promises
15 actually when the mayor back then actually gave
16 that piece of property away, and promised good
17 jobs and things like that, which did not take
18 place.
19 They do have jobs, but they're not
20 jobs that are able to sustain the livelihood of
21 someone. They realized that, at that particular
22 time, there was actually no transit in that area.
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1 So, you know, what I'm, what I'm
2 listening to right now is, like you said, you do
3 a study every couple of years or whatever.
4 Well, I know for a fact, in a couple
5 of years, you're going to come back and you're
6 going to be eliminating way more services to our
7 so-called communities because this is really not
8 about communities.
9 This is really about making sure that
10 that corridor is serviced, and that people get
11 back and forth to that.
12 And I would be really not shocked if
13 I sat here three years from now, and when you
14 come back with that, and probably, at that
15 particular time, I understand that our DC tax
16 dollars are paying for part of this service, and
17 part of it is privatized, but I'm pretty sure,
18 once that, the money that can be made off of this
19 service really comes to light, it will no longer
20 be a dollar. It would actually all be privatized
21 --
22 MR. MILLER: One minute.
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1 MS. MITCHELL: -- and the other, those
2 people who are actually riding the system now who
3 are unionized, who are getting decent pay and
4 decent benefits, those jobs will be gone and it
5 will be people who will be getting low wages and
6 no benefits at all.
7 So, thank you for masking this, but
8 please tell your shareholders to please think
9 about the communities, because one attack against
10 one community is an attack against all of our
11 communities. Thank you.
12 MR. MILLER: Thank you for your
13 comments. Okay. I'm going to check to see if
14 anyone who signed up has arrived. Jennifer
15 Garlic? No? Okay.
16 And then, I believe the other was
17 Trina Robertson, also had signed up previously.
18 Trina, are you here? Okay.
19 So, we have a number of other folks
20 who are here. We're not sure if they wanted to
21 speak or not. Now is your opportunity.
22 Would anyone in the audience like to
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1 take their three minutes to give their public
2 comments? Yes, ma'am, in the back.
3 Oh, yes, either mic is fine. Please
4 state your name for the record. You'll have
5 three minutes.
6 MR. WELCH: Yes. Good evening. My
7 name is Jabari Welch, and I live in Hillcrest
8 Southeast, and I just want to thank our awesome
9 Commissioner Marlin who represents us.
10 I urge you all to come out to
11 Hillcrest, to the Hillcrest Association meeting,
12 as well as to our ANC meeting that's on the third
13 Wednesday, Thursday. The third Thursday of every
14 month. Every month. It's important.
15 You know, I know when people think
16 about Southeast, it's typically not in good
17 spirits, but I've got to tell you, in Hillcrest,
18 we are a very strong community, and we're
19 passionate. And so, I urge you all to come out
20 to our community. Thank you.
21 MR. MILLER: Thank you for your
22 comments. Please state your name for the record,
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1 and then you'll have three minutes.
2 MS. THOMAS: My name is Kenya Thomas,
3 and I live in the Anacostia section. I'm a
4 homeowner over in Anacostia, and I think that
5 it's awful that you all are doing the Skyland
6 Circulator that way that it is.
7 There are a lot of people over there
8 that may not be out here tonight because of the
9 weather or whatever, but I am one and I speak for
10 many out there.
11 And I like the young lady and the
12 young man who spoke about Hillcrest. There are
13 other parts of Southeast that the Skyland and
14 Circulator will be affected.
15 There are a lot of people who have to
16 take their kids. Kids go to school over there.
17 And to eliminate that part of the Circulator, I
18 think, is just awful. I really do.
19 I think that you all, there's a
20 little, we had, we pay taxes out there, and we
21 are citizens.
22 Some of, most of us are homeowners
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1 over there. We need the Circulator. We really
2 do. And I think that it's just awful.
3 You all need to do a little bit better
4 than that over there. Why do we always have to
5 suffer because of what you all want to do?
6 That's all I have to say.
7 MR. MILLER: Thank you for your
8 comments, ma'am. Would anyone else like to
9 provide public comments? Yes, ma'am. Please
10 state your name for the record.
11 MS. AVERY: Yes, sir. My name is Iris
12 Avery, and I heard that you all were saying Good
13 Hope Road is congested.
14 M Street, I see Circulators on M
15 Street. M Street is congested all day long.
16 Waterfront is going to be congested all day long.
17 So, don't use Good Hope Road as a
18 problem of trying to get the escalator from over
19 in that area.
20 And furthermore, when you look at the
21 map, it looks like you all are pushing the
22 Circulator more out of Southeast. And thank you.
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1 MR. MILLER: Thank you for your
2 comments. Would anyone else like to give public
3 comments? Okay.
4 We appreciate all of your comments,
5 whether you commented online or spoke tonight.
6 They are recorded the same and will be evaluated
7 the same.
8 We are happy to discuss with you
9 afterwards if you have any additional questions
10 or would like to talk to DDOT staff. Thank you
11 very much for coming out to this public hearing.
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This is to certify that the foregoing transcript
In the matter of: DC CIRCULATOR MAJOR SERVICE CHANGES
Before: DC DOT
Date: 01-04-18
Place: Washington, DC was duly recorded and accurately transcribed under my direction; further, that said transcript is a true and accurate record of the proceedings.
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