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"FY 2025. The FY 2025 budget highlights are:
• $835.5 million for the District Department of Transportation, to include: $410.7 million for federal Highway Trust Fund supported projects which includes $47.2 million for the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge Rehabilitation and $42.8 million for Benning Road Bridges and Transportation Improvements, $115.5 million for various locally funded projects including local street paving, streetlight management, sidewalks, alleys, stormwater and flood mitigation, fleet, equipment and transportation mitigation, $93.8 million for the H Street Bridge, $47.3 million for Streetscapes and Beautification, $48.3 million for safety improvements, $36.7 million for the 11th Street Bridge Park, $18.2 million for Urban Forestry, $18.1 million for Pepco Powerline Undergrounding, $16.3 million for Bridge Rehabilitation, and $16.7 million for Bus Priority and Efficiency;"

The 11th Street Bridge is the bike bridge.

If we eliminated the streetscapes, safety improvements, 11th St Bridge, and bus priority lanes plus the $32 million for the bike lanes that's almost $200 million of painless cuts.[/quote]

Sure, assuming that none of those projects have started construction yet even though the fiscal year is about half over, it would be easy to eliminate all of them. It seems like a bad idea to leave a bunch of street construction half-finished, though, if any have already begun?[/quote]

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