The budget that the council is set to vote on Tuesday would restore D.C. Circulator routes and supports a 25-cent surcharge on ride-hailing trips.
After seven weeks of debating changes to Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s proposed budget, the D.C. Council is poised to vote Tuesday on a spending plan that would expand bus operations, suspend a long-planned downtown transit project and create a new ride-hailing fee.Council Chairman Phil Mendelson unveiled a budget Monday that shelves Bowser’s proposed makeover of downtown’s K Street corridor for at least a year.
The mayor has criticized council members for proposing to defund the K Street project and seeking a surcharge on ride-hailing trips, saying those proposals would hamper such efforts. Mendelson said the council’s budget targets more immediate investments to bring people back to the city’s core, including through expanding transit operations, retail grants and cultural events.
The proposed redesign of the mile-long corridor would add bus lanes — one in each direction — to the center of K Street, eliminate decades-old service roads and include improvements to crosswalks and landscaping. The District Department of Transportation said it removed the bike lanes as part of a compromise, citing pressure from businesses to include more space for parking, drop-off and pickups, and deliveries.
The plan calls for 24-hour service on 13 routes beginning in January. The routes would serve corridors with a high concentration of businesses, such as bars and restaurants, with late operating hours and would provide an estimated 44,000 trips in the first year, according to council projections. Among the routes are the H4, S2, X2, 33, 80 and 70.
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