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Newcomb Ave. Sustainable Streetscape Project Completed in Bayview

After a six-year-long process, residents of Newcomb Avenue in the Bayview joined city staffers yesterday to mark the completion of the "Model Block" project, a prototype for street design that's better for the environment and more conducive to neighborhood life.

The block had been characterized by speeding traffic and illegal dumping. With this redesign it should be a safer, more sociable street thanks to the addition of landscaped chicanes, sidewalk bulb-outs, 20 new street trees, raised crosswalks, and other traffic calming improvements. The new landscaped surfaces will absorb rainfall and prevent stormwater from overloading the sewer system.

“To see the finished project, something this great in the Bayview, is unbelievable!" said Newcomb resident Mardina Graham in a press release from the Department of Public Works. "I have lived in the neighborhood all my life and have never seen anything like this before, perhaps in other neighborhoods yes, but not here."

Residents will organize community cleanup days to keep the street "clean and green," according to DPW, while the performance of the new stormwater treatment facilities -- projected to reduce runoff by half -- will be monitored by the city.

See more photos after the break.

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