Introduction
The Anacostia Gateway and surrounding neighborhoods are experiencing new investments that will significantly expand the residential and commercial activities within the neighborhood. The Anacostia Gateway Corridor will experience new development, including a proposed Government Center to house District employees that will increase existing transportation needs regarding automobiles, pedestrians, bicycles, and transit services within the neighborhood. Old Anacostia is an historic district and is home to a national historical site, the Frederick Douglass Home. The home was the final residence of Frederick Douglass, considered one of America's most celebrated forefathers. The area around the site should be enhanced and preserved. Its immediate community should reflect its presence.

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Goals

The Consultant will develop a multi-modal transportation design and management plan that will focus on preserving, strengthening or creating a vibrant diversified residential and commercial neighborhood, while at the same time, improving the efficiency of movement of all modes of transportation through the neighborhood as part of a city and regional transportation system. The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) seeks a study that will recommend balanced physical design and management strategies that encourage the efficient and safe movement of all users and achieve the following goals:

• Reinforces and/or defines the sense of place and uniqueness of the Anacostia Gateway/Community.
• Recognizes the role of the roadways, transit linkages, and bike and pedestrian pathways within the study area as an integral component in the overall city and regional transportation system and maintains or improves their function and efficiency as a part of the system;
• Investigates and balances safe and efficient pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and auto movement through and within the neighborhood center;
• Establishes a flexible, demand-management based parking strategy and implementation plan that supports both new and existing retail and residential uses;
• Explicitly encourages the use of transit and enhances transit efficiency, and;
• Creates a safe, inviting, and interesting public realm that supports a diversity of uses and activities.