Ward 6 // ddot_marking

DDOT-permitted daylighting failure on the Museum of the Bible block -- cause and consequence, six months apart

Location: 400--420 4th Street SW (Museum of the Bible block), Southwest Waterfront, Washington, DC 20024
Ward: 6
Documented: October 6, 2025 & April 9, 2026
Category: ddot_marking
311 tickets: 26-00266075

Same DDOT-permitted daylighting failure on the Museum of the Bible block of 4th St SW, documented twice. Frame 1 (Apr 2026): a tour bus parked exactly where the yellow paint permits, with a passenger vehicle stopped inside the crosswalk markings beside it -- the consequence. Frame 2 (Oct 2025): empty curb shows the paint extending right to the crosswalk with no setback -- the cause. — 01 // Photo 1 of 2.

Photo 2 of 2: Same DDOT-permitted daylighting failure on the Museum of the Bible block of 4th St SW, documented twice. Frame 1 (Apr 2026): a tour bus parked exactly where the yellow paint permits, with a passenger vehicle stopped inside the crosswalk markings beside it -- the consequence. Frame 2 (Oct 2025): empty curb shows the paint extending right to the crosswalk with no setback -- the cause. — 02 // Photo 2 of 2.

01What is wrong here

Two frames of the same DDOT failure. After years of public pressure DDOT moved the No Parking sign at this corner -- but left the yellow curb paint in place, extending to the crosswalk with no daylighting setback. The Oct 2025 frame shows the empty curb: the infrastructure cause. The Apr 2026 frame shows the consequence -- a tour bus parked right against the crosswalk on the cycleway, with a passenger vehicle stopped literally inside the crosswalk markings beside it. The paint authorizes the bus's position. Cut the yellow paint back to the 40-foot intersection setback under 18 DCMR 2405.2(c) and add pylons in the daylighting zone.

02DC 311

DC 311 (paint setback) Ticket 26-00266075 · Roadway Markings / Pylons · Submitted May 3, 2026 · Open · Resolution by May 26, 2027

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