The South Capitol Street Corridor Project calls for replacing the 63 year old Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge and transforming related sections of urban freeway into a beautiful scenic boulevard that increases pedestrian and vehicular safety, improves multi-modal transportation options, increases community accessibility and supports economic development on both sides of the Anacostia River.
The improvements include constructing a traffic oval and circle on either end of the span and reconstructing the Interstate 295/Suitland Parkway interchange. Today the bridge carries over 70,000 vehicles daily.