Posts from October 2019
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A shuttered section of West Virginia Avenue gets new life with a kid-friendly mural
A new “playable” mural has been painted on a small segment of street that’s been closed to cars in the Near Northeast neighborhood. The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) just finished these kid-friendly designs on a short section of West Virginia Avenue at 8th and K streets. Keep reading…
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We asked Ward 2 council candidates about housing issues. Here’s what they said.
The GGWash elections committee is currently in the process of endorsing a candidate for the Ward 2 council seat in advance of the June 2020 election. As part of this process, we sent a questionnaire to each candidate who has filed to run. Our questionnaire contained three sections, covering the broad issues that we routinely cover on the blog and around which we regularly advocate: housing, transportation, and land use. Keep reading…
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A 19-year-old dies in a traffic crash in Congress Heights
A 19-year-old man died Monday night after an SUV driver collided with him on his moped on the 2900 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE in Congress Heights, according to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Major Crash Investigations Unit. This street is known to be dangerous and has been the site of many crashes. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: DC’s Department of Transportation will take over the traffic camera program from MPD
Mayor Bowser shifted control of the traffic camera enforcement program to DDOT. The “Complete Streets” controversy in Arlington continued. Metro extended their late-night service hours for a Nationals game. Keep reading…
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Central Virginia is planning a 41-mile trail from Ashland to Petersburg
When the Virginia Capital Trail was first proposed back in 1999, critics derided the idea of the 51.7-mile multi-use path as overly-ambitious and too expensive. Today, the east-west trail connecting Virginia’s first capital of Jamestown with the modern seat of government, Richmond, faces concerns about overcrowding, and there’s now a sibling trail in the pipeline. Keep reading…
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Small-scale clinics bridge the gap in health care east of the Anacostia
Painted in bold shades of blue, red, green and pink, Whitman-Walker Health’s Max Robinson Center has stood prominently in the historic Anacostia neighborhood, just a few blocks from the Big Chair, since the early 1990s. It was opened to fill a gap in HIV services in Southeast DC, after having already provided such treatments in Northwest, according to Medical Director Colleen Lane. Keep reading…
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After a fight, Bloomingdale gets better traffic calming infrastructure
A DDOT traffic calming plan from March is finally being completed after opposition from a local ANC commissioner led to months of uncertainty. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Convert vacant offices into housing? A new report throws a damper on the idea
Transforming office space to affordable housing is not DC’s best housing tool, a report says. The nation’s first all-electric fueling station is in Takoma Park. A woman was hit by a driver in Arlington. Keep reading…