DDOT Continues to Mismanage and Delay the Klingle Road Project

February 17, 2004

(Washington, DC)  The Districts Department of Transportation (DDOT) flouts Council directives regarding the Klingle Road Restoration Project.  Bill B15-0061, passed by the DC Council last May, spelled out DDOTs responsibilities for restoring historic Klingle Road.  According to the Bill, an Environmental Assessment (EA) was to have been done immediately.   Once the EA was approved, design and construction was to begin.  Instead, here we are 9 months later, and DDOT is just now beginning a more-involved Environmental Impact Study (EIS), and intends to hold more public meetings on the Project. 

We want to know why DDOT continues to delay the Klingle Road Restoration Project.  There are also other inconsistencies about what has and has not happened in other DDOT Klingle requirements that just dont match up, says Laurie Collins, Coalition member. 

It is interesting to compare the administration's handling of the Klingle Road Restoration Project against their handling of the Mayor's Mansion project:  Note the similarities -- Klingle involves a road restoration adjacent U.S. park land, while the Mansion involved a completely new road through U.S. park land -- and the differences -- an EA for the Mayor's mansion was completed and approved in a few months...Klingle Road was closed for repairs in 1991, and we are still waiting for environmental reviews to be completed.   

Like all injustices, bureaucratic injustice corrupts.  

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