Doctor's Run Park: Both Journey and Destination
Level of Effort: 5 minutes, at home, in your PJs
Deadline: Sun 11/9 11:59pm

Doctor's Run is an important park.  It's a community gathering space, picnic area, volleyball venue, playground, and it's also an important transportation connection for those walking, biking, and scooting.  The existing trail through Doctor's Run Park is part of the 12th St S Bicycle Boulevard, providing a safe place for people to bike & scoot parallel to Columbia Pike, and an important route for students at Randolph Elementary.  As the Barcroft Apartments grow and evolve under their new ownership, this connection will only become more important.

Speak up for the importance of the trail and path connections through the Park (and make sure the updated playground is great while you're at it). The existing trail is too steep, too windy, too narrow, has several steep drop-offs, and does not connect to 12th Rd S, which is the planned route for the bicycle boulevard extension through Barcroft. The renovation completely fails to connect the updated amenities to the existing trail making access very circuitous for families with strollers or kids on bikes!

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The new playground amenities and volleyball court need to be connected to the existing trail and the existing trail must be made safer and more accessible.  The new trail piece should also connect users to 12th Rd S and a safe crossing of George Mason Drive at 12th Rd South is important as well. The trail heavily used by kids getting to school and needs to be:

  • less steep
  • less windy
  • without steep drop-offs on either side
  • wide enough for safe and comfortable passing