Metropolitan Branch Trail

The Metropolitan Branch Trail was conceived in 1988 by Patrick Hare of the Brookland neighborhood. Working with the Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) and Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in 1989, Hare organized 11 cyclists to conduct an exploratory walk/ride. Soon after, motivated by CSX's plans to develop the Eckington Rail Yard needed for the trail,{{cite news|last1=Bell|first1=Thomas|title=CYCLISTS RACING TO GET RAILBED FOR NE TRAIL|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1989/11/23/cyclists-racing-to-get-railbed-for-ne-trail/8289242b-ce39-416d-a75b-74c8462fcee8/|accessdate=9 September 2015|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=23 November 1989}} the Coalition for the Metropolitan Branch Trail was formed to explore and promote the potential for a multi-use trail. Before that, the proposed trail was sometimes called the "Dome to Dome Trail" because it would connect the Capitol Dome and the Catholic University dome. The Metropolitan Branch Trail entered the DC Comprehensive Plan in the early 1990s and as early as 1993, the NPS was planning to build the 0.75 mile section from the Fort Totten Metro Station to South Dakota Ave;{{cite news |last1=Hodge |first1=Paul |title=New Bike Trail Within Va. Riders' Reach |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=14 January 1993}} in 1997, the DC Department of Public Works (DPW) completed an engineering feasibility study that determined that it would be possible. In 1991, Congress gave the District $1.5 million to secure access, rights-of-way, easements, and title to land needed for the trail.{{cite web |title=District of Columbia Appropriations Act of 1992 |date=11 September 1991 |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-bill/2699/text |accessdate=29 October 2020}}

Planning of the trail began in 1998 after Congress allocated $8.5 million in demonstration-project funding to the District for the trail through the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), the six-year federal transportation funding bill; this was celebrated with a ground-breaking ceremony.{{cite book|title=Metropolitan Branch Trail Concept Plan|date=1999|url=http://www.waba.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MBT-Concept-Plan-WABA-1999.pdf|accessdate=31 July 2017}} In 1999, WABA published a concept plan for the trail that envisioned a large urban park and greenway along the abandoned, and at the time undeveloped, CSX Transportation property. In April 2001, WABA published a study describing the necessary acquisitions for the trail. In 2002,{{cite press release

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when the city and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) agreed to construct a new Metro station at New York and Florida Avenues, trail advocates and city staff negotiated for WMATA to build a portion of the trail as a part of the project. Around the same time, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) completed a Feasibility Study and Concept Plan for one mile of the MBT between DC and Silver Spring. In 2003, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) hired a special project manager for the trail, prepared a Takoma Alignment Study, and began development of the comprehensive concept plan, which was completed in 2005.{{cite journal|author=District Department of Transportation |title=Metropolitan Branch Trail Draft Comprehensive Plan |year=2005 |url=http://www.metbranchtrail.com/DesignPlanTOC.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050408233915/http://www.metbranchtrail.com/DesignPlanTOC.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=2005-04-08 |format=PDF |accessdate=2009-05-28 }}

Amid this planning, work was underway in the District. After a groundbreaking ceremony on May 29, 1998, the District Department of Transportation built a nearly one-mile segment along John McCormack Road near Catholic University as part of routine road maintenance.{{cite news |title=Bike Path Groundbreaking Today |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-662555.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724093448/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-662555.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 24, 2018 |accessdate=24 July 2018 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 29, 1998}} It was built with $1.9 million of federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) funding and was completed in November 1998.{{cite news|last1=Lenhart|first1=Jennifer|title=Part of Bike Beltway Open in the District|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/11/23/update-on-the-news/8bac3588-fdbd-4f3e-a7bb-ad5b45fc70f9/|accessdate=15 September 2015|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=23 November 1998}} On October 21, 1999, the trail was named one of 50 Millennium Legacy Trails at a White House ceremony featuring First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater.{{cite news |title=U.S. Transportation Secretary Slater Announces $3.6 Million in Funding for Millennium Trails |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/pressroom/fhwa0002.cfm |accessdate=21 October 2020 |date=6 January 2000}}{{cite news |title=MILLENNIUM LEGACY TRAILS |url=http://www.millenniumtrails.org/MT_active_pages/Mlt/main.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001109013000/http://www.millenniumtrails.org/MT_active_pages/Mlt/main.asp |accessdate=21 October 2020|url-status=usurped |archive-date=2000-11-09 }} Five days later, a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Brookland-Catholic University Metro station to celebrate its designation as a Millennium Legacy Trail.{{cite news|last1=Levey|first1=Bob|title=A Bicycle Beltway Within the Beltway|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/11/04/a-bicycle-beltway-within-the-beltway/50cdd535-4090-47b4-a52e-774b9b16e7f8/|accessdate=16 September 2015|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=4 November 1999}} It was attended by Slater; eight members of Congress; and representatives of NHTSA, FHWA, and the DC government.{{cite news|last1=Pearson|first1=Marietta|title=Completion of First Part of Metropolitan Branch Trail Opens as Part of Millennium Trails|volume=6|url=http://www.carsandracingstuff.com/library/n/nhtsanow20000124.pdf|accessdate=27 August 2016|work=NHTSA Now|issue=1|date=24 January 2000}} Another short, on-road trail section was built along First Street NE from Massachusetts Avenue to K Street NE in 2000. When the New York Ave–Florida Ave–Gallaudet University Metro station opened in November 2004,{{cite news |title=Metro's New York Ave-Florida Ave-Gallaudet U Metrorail station opens today on the Red Line |url=http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/news/PressReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=3182 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927082508/http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/news/PressReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=3182 |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2013 |accessdate=6 July 2020 |date=20 November 2004}} it included about {{convert|2000|ft|m}} of trail on a raised structure, but that section would remain inaccessible until 2010. Stairs from the New York Avenue Metro Station section to L Street NE, a trail under the tracks along L Street NE and a one-block portion along 2nd Street NE were completed in the spring of 2008.

Construction on the core of the trail, a 1.5-mile segment from New York Avenue to Franklin Street, began in June 2009; its opening in May 2010 made the whole DC section usable.{{cite journal

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In early 2015, the 100 Florida Avenue building opened with a connection between the trail and Florida and New York Avenues. The connection to the trail and to Florida Avenue was closed in 2019 to allow the construction of 200 Florida Avenue. That opened, with a new temporary ramp, in December 2021. But that ramp wouldn't even last a year, as in August 2021 it was closed to allow for construction of 202 Florida Avenue. The building, which includes a "bike lobby" with a staircase down to Florida Avenue and a connection to New York Avenue opened in 2024.{{Cite tweet |user=@ByERussell |number=1766211590804717601 |title=the new bike lobby connecting the Met Branch Trail and Florida Ave NE is OPEN! }}

On July 9, 2013, a 500-foot section between Monroe Street and the CUA Metro station opened as part of the Monroe Street Market development.{{cite web

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| title = Monroe Street Market (Catholic U) Development To Open Pedestrian And MBT Areas Today

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On May 30, 2014, a roughly 2,000-foot section of the trail opened as a curb-protected, two-way bike lane along 1st Street NE from G Street NE to M Street NE.{{cite web|last1=Billing|first1=Greg|title=FIRST ST. NE CYCLE TRACK RIBBON CUTTING TOMORROW|url=http://www.waba.org/blog/2014/05/first-st-ne-cycle-track-ribbon-cutting-tomorrow/|website=waba.org|date=29 May 2014 |accessdate=12 August 2015}} This was connected to the existing trail in November 2014 by a 572-foot protected bike lane on M Street,{{cite tweet |user=DJEinDC |author=Dan Emerine|number=532552477485568000 |date=12 November 2014 |title=2-way cycle track on M St between MBT/NoMa Metro & 1st St NE opened yesterday}} and then extended 812 feet south along 1st Street from G Street NE to the stub at Columbus Circle NE on August 12, 2015.{{cite web|last1=Cranor|first1=David|title=1st Street NE Protected Bike Lane extension now open|url=http://www.thewashcycle.com/2015/08/1st-street-ne-protected-bike-lane-extension-now-open.html|accessdate=12 August 2015}} The Rhode Island Avenue Pedestrian Bridge over the rail line, which connects the trail on the west side to the Rhode Island Avenue Metro Station on the east, opened on December 31, 2014, after more than 15 months of work.{{cite web|last1=Russell|first1=Edward|title=A long-awaited bridge opens to Rhode Island Avenue Metro|url=http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/25314/a-long-awaited-bridge-opens-to-rhode-island-avenue-metro/|website=Greater Greater Washington|accessdate=31 December 2014}}

On October 31, 2017, DDOT issued a Notice to Proceed for the design-build construction of the next phase of the Metropolitan Branch Trail: the "Fort Totten section" from John McCormack Drive in Brookland to the Fort Totten Metro Station. That work was to be completed in 2020, but was delayed by contractor problems and the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite web|last1=Cranor|first1=David|title=Say Goodbye to the "Big Stinky": DDOT to Begin Metropolitan Branch Trail Extension|url=http://www.thewashcycle.com/2017/11/-say-goodbye-to-the-big-stinky-ddot-to-begin-metropolitan-branch-trail-extension.html|website=The WashCycle|accessdate=2 November 2017}}{{cite web |title=METROPOLITAN BRANCH TRAIL FORT TOTTEN |url=https://www.metbranchtrail-forttotten.com/ |accessdate=18 March 2020}} The first completed section was an 800-foot replacement of the connector between Gallatin St NE and 1st Place NE; it re-opened on June 17, 2020.{{cite tweet |user=@gregbilling |number=1273270493748113409 |date=17 June 2020 |title=The Fort Totten neighborhood connection to the Met Branch Trail is open. }} The section from the connector to the existing trail on John McCormack opened on April 23, 2022.{{Cite tweet |user=@Wash_cycle |number=1517987547749699587 |title=}}

On December 7, 2019, the section between Q and R Streets NE, closed since August 2019, reopened as part of construction of Alethia Tanner Park. The trail in that block had always hugged the outside of the parcel, but the new design allowed it to cut across the parcel, removing two sharp turns.{{cite tweet |user=NoMaParksDC |number=1203398342518198272 |date=7 December 2019 |title=#MBT #TannerPark }} On March 18, 2020, NoMa Parks Foundation completed a Henry Thomas Way Drive connector as part of the same project.{{cite tweet |user= NoMaParksDC|number=1240327816413089792 |date=18 March 2020 |title=We are opening the MBT Connector in Tanner Park today!}} The park itself opened on June 25.{{cite web |title=ALETHIA TANNER PARK IS NOW OPEN!! |url=https://www.nomaparks.org/nomagreen/ |accessdate=17 July 2020}}

From April to June 2021, DC built a 450-foot section of the trail along Eastern Avenue from the Maryland boundary, where it connected to an existing section built by Montgomery County, to Piney Branch Road.{{Cite tweet |user=DDOTDC |number=1384562268122271746 |title=Metropolitan Branch Trail Eastern Ave project update: new curb extensions, bioretention, streetlights, ramps and flexipave are in.}}

Work was also going on in Maryland, where the trail will terminate at the Silver Spring Metro Center.

In 2001, the Montgomery County Planning Board approved a CCT/MetBranch Trail Facility Plan, but formal planning for the trail was completed only in 2017.{{cite web |title=Metropolitan Branch Trail |url=https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-dte/projects/metropolitan/index.html |accessdate=21 July 2020}} Nonetheless, some work was completed as part of other projects.{{cite web |title=Metropolitan Branch Trail |url=http://www.silverspringtrails.org/?page_id=111 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330175645/http://www.silverspringtrails.org/?page_id=111 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 March 2010 |accessdate=21 July 2020}} In 2003, Montgomery College built a half-mile of mostly-paved trail from the District line along Fenton Street to its Takoma campus expansion. The campus expansion also included a bridge from the Takoma Park section over the railroad tracks to Jessup Blair Park in Silver Spring that opened on July 28, 2004.{{cite web |title=Public Project: Jesup Blair Park Renovation |url=http://www.montgomeryplanning.org/community/silverspring/public_projects/jesup_blair.shtm |accessdate=20 July 2020}} The half-mile of trail had included a short section topped with water-permeable stone dust to protect nearby tree roots,{{cite web |title=Takoma Park Expansion Plan |url=https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/Resources/Files/res/2007/20070227_16-79.pdf |accessdate=21 July 2020}}{{cite web |title=Metropolitan Branch Trail |url=http://home.comcast.net:80/~phyilla1/sstrails/mbt.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050305102714/http://home.comcast.net/~phyilla1/sstrails/mbt.html |archive-date=5 March 2005 |website=Silver Spring Trails |accessdate=21 July 2020}} but after further evaluation indicated the trees would be unaffected, this section was paved in January 2006.{{cite web |title=The Metropolitan Branch Trail |url=http://home.comcast.net:80/~phyilla1/sstrails/mbt.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902062801/http://home.comcast.net/~phyilla1/sstrails/mbt.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 September 2006 |website=Silver Spring Trails |accessdate=21 July 2020 }}

Sections built as part of larger projects include a 100-foot section of a trail south of Ripley Street that was part of Solaire's 1150 Ripley building in 2012,{{cite web|last1=Reed|first1=Dan|title=Silver Spring's Ripley District becoming a neighborhood|url=https://ggwash.org/view/28333/silver-springs-ripley-district-becoming-a-neighborhood|website=Greater Greater Washington|accessdate=19 July 2017}} a section from Colesville Road to Ripley Street in Silver Spring that opened in January and February 2013 as part of the Silver Spring Transit Center,{{cite web |title=Ripley Street Portion of Metropolitan Branch Trail Opened in Silver Spring; Will Enhance Accessibility Around Transit Center |url=http://www6.montgomerycountymd.gov/Apps/News/press/PR_details.asp?PrID=9212 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226003642/http://www6.montgomerycountymd.gov/Apps/News/press/PR_details.asp?PrID=9212 |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 February 2013 |website=montgomerycountymd.gov |accessdate=22 July 2020}} and a 0.05-mile section of the trail alongside the Progress Place development that was completed in late 2016, but will not be opened to the public until the county finishes its trail construction work.{{cite web|last1=Diegel|first1=Mike|title=PROGRESS PLACE'S NEW LOCATION TO OPEN THIS WEEK IN DOWNTOWN SILVER SPRING|url=https://www.sourceofthespring.com/progress-places-new-location-open-week-downtown-silver-spring/|website=Source of the Spring|date=12 December 2016 |accessdate=19 July 2017}} The first piece built by Montgomery County not as part of some other project was a two-block section along Fenton and King Streets that was completed in June 2018.{{cite web |last1=Cranor |first1=David |title=Groundbreaking ceremony for the Met Branch Trail's Ft. Totten Section will happen Saturday at 10am, also a very small section completed in MD |url=http://www.thewashcycle.com/2018/07/groundbreaking-ceremony-for-the-met-branch-trails-ft-totten-section-will-happen-saturday-at-10am.html |website=TheWashCycle |accessdate=24 July 2018}}

In 2022, another small section was completed from the stub behind Solaire's 1150 Ripley building, behind Solaire's 8200 Dixon building to the Progress Place section. This included a new connection to Dixon Avenue, but was not opened to the Progress Place section next door.{{Cite tweet |user=@Wash_cycle |number=1558934597114765315 |title=Met branch trail section behind the Riple}}

In 2024, work began on Phase 2A of the project in Silver Spring, which would close the remaining gaps between Dixon Avenue and Georgia Avenue (around the train station primarily) and then build a new trail bridge over Georgia Avenue.{{cite web |title=Metropolitan Branch Trail Phase 2A |url=https://montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-dte/projects/Metropolitan-Phase2A/index.html |access-date=18 March 2024}}

Meanwhile, the first piece of the Maryland section of the Prince George's County Connector Trail, from Eastern Avenue in DC to Russell Avenue in Maryland, was built in 2009 and 2010.{{cite web|last1=Cranor|first1=David|title=Trees going in soon on the Met Branch Trail|url=http://www.thewashcycle.com/2009/11/trees-going-in-soon-on-the-met-branch-trail.html|website=TheWashcycle|accessdate=18 July 2017}}

A substantial segment of the original Metropolitan Branch right-of-way south of Franklin Street NE (in some places, 200 feet wide) was marked as an extension of Delaware Avenue under the L'Enfant Plan. In the late 19th and early 20th century, it was converted into railroad sidings for industrial use on Capitol Hill, parallel to the B&O railroad. These Metropolitan Branch sidings became disused as industries left the city, and the owner, CSX, which had already sold the active B&O railroad tracks within the District to the Washington Metro under a joint-use agreement, made plans to redevelop many of the properties along the right-of-way. The sidings land was left vacant as a staging ground for temporary construction uses. During this period, the wide, grassy strip became a popular short-cut for pedestrians and cyclists trying to access the Red Line, which runs along the corridor.

Initially, WMATA engineered the Red Line to accommodate existing railroad uses in the corridor, bisecting the existing rail line and preserving many of the Metropolitan Branch sidings. In 1988, a decade after WMATA purchased and widened the active tracks, Montgomery County purchased the Georgetown Branch of the B&O, a single-track spur feeding into the Metropolitan Branch from the north, for transportation use including an extension of the Capital Crescent Trail.Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail. [http://www.cctrail.org/CCT_History.htm "A Brief History of the Georgetown Branch."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203023800/http://www.cctrail.org/CCT_History.htm |date=2007-02-03 }} Accessed 2009-11-14. The remaining disused portions of the Metropolitan Branch spanned the distance parallel to the Red Line between the Georgetown Branch and Union Station, including sizable gaps north of Franklin Street, where the railroad had been widened by WMATA; the only available right-of-way for a trail in these areas was on adjacent parkland, or streets parallel to the railroad tracks.

Cost-cutting efforts led planners to alter the planned Metropolitan Branch Trail route, running substantial portions of the proposed trail on streets to reduce the amount of land needed to be acquired. Still, a continuous off-street trail is planned between Franklin Street and the New York Ave–Florida Ave–Gallaudet University Metro station.

The connector trail between the Metropolitan Branch Trail and the Anacostia Tributary Trail System is envisioned as following the linear park under which Metro's Green Line was built and a route that had already been proposed as part of the Fort Circle Trail.{{cite news |last1=Hare |first1=Patrick |title=eared to Everyone's Interests-A Brookland Bike Trail |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=24 September 1989}}

DC has long planned to add a ramp from the south end of the trail to street level at L Street as part of ongoing improvements to the NoMa–Gallaudet U Metro station. As of March 2023, the ramp was part of the project's planned Phases II-IV.{{cite web |last1=Cranor |first1=David |title=Metropolitan Branch Trail L Street Ramp would be more than a trail |url=https://www.thewashcycle.com/2014/07/metropolitan-branch-trail-l-street-ramp-would-be-more-than-a-trail.html |website=thewashcycle |access-date=25 September 2024}}{{cite web |title=NoMa Development Map March 2023 |url=https://nomabid.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/NoMa-BID-Development-Map-March-2023_8.5-x-11in-version-1.pdf |access-date=25 September 2024}}

In July 2023, DDOT began work on the trail between Fort Totten and South Dakota Avenue NW, part of the Fort Totten-to-Takoma section. The last major uncompleted section in the District of Columbia, it is slated for completed in fall 2024. Work on the section along South Dakota Avenue to Blair Road NW started in November 2023 and is also expected to be completed in fall 2024. Construction on Blair Road from Oglethorpe Street NW to Aspen Street NW started in December 2023 and is expected to run until spring 2025; construction on the trail and road medians on that stretch is expected to run from spring to summer 2025.{{cite web |title=MBT Fort Totten to Takoma Section Progress/Timeline |url=https://mbt-forttotten-takoma.ddot.dc.gov/ |access-date=25 September 2024}}

In March 2024, Montgomery County began work on Phase 2A, which is to complete the trail from Silver Spring Avenue to Selim Road, including the extant portion behind Progress Place.{{cite web |title=Metropolitan Branch Trail Phase 2A - Project Schedule |url=https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-dte/projects/Metropolitan-Phase2A/index.html |access-date=25 September 2024}}{{cite web |title=Metropolitan Branch Trail Phase 2A Plan Set |url=https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-dte/Resources/Files/MetBranchP2/MBT%20Ph2%20Shared%20Use%20Path.pdf |access-date=25 September 2024}} Work is expected to complete in spring 2025.{{cite web |title=Montgomery County Council Committee Meetings on June 17, 2024 |url=https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=45413&Dept=1 |access-date=25 September 2024}}

As of September 2024, officials have announced no start or completion day for Phase 2B, the section along the west side of Selim Road to a new tunnel under Burlington Avenue to King Street.{{cite web |title=Metropolitan Branch Trail Roll Sheet |url=https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-dte/Resources/Files/RollMap_MetroBranch.pdf |access-date=25 September 2024 |archive-date=15 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715221617/https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-dte/Resources/Files/RollMap_MetroBranch.pdf |url-status=bot: unknown }} Phase 2B and 2A were originally to be done together, but in 2022 all bids on the project were rejected and the project broken into two parts.{{cite web |title=Metropolitan Branch Trail |url=https://www.constructionjournal.com/projects/details/2c780b63c7e64704a86a0e98f23808e5.html |access-date=25 September 2024}}

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• [http://www.metbranchtrail.com/ Metropolitan Branch Trail - official site] (DC Department of Transportation)
• [http://www.montgomeryparks.org/PPSD/ParkTrails/trails_MAPS/NorthwestBranch.shtm Northwest Branch Trail] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814201259/http://www.montgomeryparks.org/PPSD/ParkTrails/trails_MAPS/NorthwestBranch.shtm |date=2009-08-14 }} - Montgomery County Department of Parks
• [http://home.comcast.net/~phyilla1/sstrails/mbt.html Silver Spring Trails]

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