MacArthur Boulevard (Washington, D.C.)

MacArthur Boulevard is a road in Montgomery County, Maryland and Washington D.C. The road follows a northwest to southeast route from Great Falls Park in Potomac, Maryland to Reservoir Road NW near the Georgetown Reservoir in Washington, D.C. MacArthur Boulevard runs parallel to the Clara Barton Parkway and the C&O Canal for most of its route. It runs through the Palisades area.

MacArthur used to be known as Conduit Road as it was built on top of a pipe used to deliver water from the Potomoac to the Dalecarlia Reservoir.

In 1975, a bike path, the MacArthur Boulevard Bike Trail, was built along MacArthur Boulevard from Berma Road to the south driveway for the Defense Mapping Agency, a short distance from the District line. [1] In 2013, the county began a project to rebuild the road and bikeway to make it safer and more pleasant. The project widened the existing road by four feet to provide three-foot bike lanes in each direction and an rebuild the bikeway with a five-foot wide vegetative buffer. Segment 2, between I-495 and Oberlin Road, was completed in 2014. Segment 3, between Oberlin and DC is scheduled to begin in 2020. Segment 1 will rebuild the road and trail between I-495 and Berma Road. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Beck, Jody (22 August 1975). "Happy Ending to the Brookmont Bike Trail Tale". Washington Evening Star. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. ↑ "MacArthur Boulevard Bikeway Improvemnts" (PDF). Retrieved 6 September 2018.


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