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DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
NOTICE OF FINAL RULEMAKING
The Director of the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), pursuant to the authority set forth in Sections 5(3)(A) (providing for a safe transportation system), 6(b) (transferring to the Department the traffic management function previously delegated to the Department of Public Works (DPW) under Section III (H) of Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1983), and 7 (making Director of DDOT the successor to transportation related authority delegated to the Director of DPW) of the Department of Transportation Establishment Act of 2002, effective May 21, 2002 (D.C. Law 14-137; D.C. Official Code §§ 50-921.04(3), 50-921.05(b), and 50-921.06 (2009 Repl. & 2012 Supp.)), Mayor’s Order 77-127, dated August 3, 1977, and 18 DCMR 2200.2, hereby gives notice of this final action to adopt the following rules to amend Chapter 40 of the Vehicle and Traffic Regulations in Title 18 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR). The rulemaking sets new speed limits on DC Route 295 in both directions of travel from 45 mph to 50 mph and Benning Road, NE between Oklahoma Avenue, NE and 36th Street, NE in both directions of travel from 30 mph to 35 mph.
The rulemaking specifically removes Benning Road, NE between Oklahoma Avenue, NE and 36th Street, NE from the subsection that lists those streets with a speed limit of 30 mph and adds that road to the subsection that lists the streets with a speed limit of 35 mph. It also specifically removes DC Route 295 from the subsection that lists those streets with a speed limit of 45 mph and adds that road to the subsection that lists the streets with a speed limit of 50 mph.
Proposed Regulations were published in a Notice of Emergency and Proposed Rulemaking on December 14, 2012, in the D.C. Register at 59 DCR 14842. DDOT received no comments in response to this rulemaking. No substantive changes were made to the text of the proposed rulemaking.
DDOT adopted the rules as final on February 1, 2013. The rules will go into effect upon the date of publication of this Notice of Final Rulemaking in the D.C. Register.
Title 18 DCMR, Section 4011, SPEED LIMITS, is amended as follows:
Subsection 4011.2 is amended by striking Benning Road, NE between Oklahoma Avenue, NE and 36th Street, NE from the list.
Subsection 4011.3 is amended by adding Benning Road, NE between Oklahoma Avenue, NE and 36th Street, NE to the list.
Subsection 4011.5 is amended by striking DC Route 295 from the list.
Subsection 4011.6 is amended by adding DC Route 295 to the list.
