(Washington, DC) The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) and the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development kicked off the $100 million, five-year Great Streets program at a public meeting for residents, businesses and city officials on September 14.
 
Great Streets is a major transportation investment to transform the following thoroughfares: H Street, NE and Benning Road, NE/SE, Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue, NE, Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE, South Capitol Street, Minnesota Avenue, NE/SE, and Georgia Avenue/7th Street, NW. New sidewalks, lighting, paving and street trees will improve the physical setting and reduce crime, attract private investment and neighborhood businesses, create housing opportunities and jobs and boost the quality of life.   
 
Mayor Anthony A. Williams announced the Great Streets initiative at the State of the District address in March: “Our commercial corridors…must be the arteries of the city, carrying us from one neighborhood to another, and pumping new life into communities too long ignored.”