Posts tagged Safe Routes To School
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Safety updates are coming to Alabama Avenue SE where two schoolchildren were hit
Alabama Avenue SE is a heavily-trafficked east-west corridor that runs along the edge of the District near the Maryland border. The four-mile stretch from Randle Place in Ward 8 to Ridge Road in Ward 7 provides important connections to neighborhoods, commercial areas, and Metro stops east of the Anacostia. Keep reading…
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Seminary Road in Alexandria could become safer for people bicycling and walking
On Monday, March 25, City of Alexandria Transportation staff unveiled options to address safety issues on a section of Seminary Road east of I-395. The project offers an important chance to improve safety on a ~mile-long residential corridor that has been on the city’s radar for a long time. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Budget season
Housing the homeless; Funding transit; Repeat a grade; In my day; Drop your weapons; City and country; Safety dance; Safety data; Anti pop-up candidate; Weigh in. Keep reading…
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A safer route to school is coming for Clarksburg kids and parents
In a win for parents, an intersection adjacent to a northern Montgomery County elementary school is getting a traffic signal and marked crosswalks. Keep reading…
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Events roundup: Building safe communities
This week, join the discourse in Alexandria about Eisenhower West and learn about safe commutes to school. Looking ahead, don’t miss a presentation of new ideas for Buzzard Point and don’t forget to register for Transportation Camp 2015. Safe routes to school: A safe commute to school is an integral part of any community. With missing pedestrian infrastructure,… Keep reading…
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Events roundup: #GGWchat with Catania, urban agriculture, tours, and more
Take some time to stop, listen and engage in our many events this week! Don’t miss our lunchtime chat with David Catania. Plus, there are several information-packed symposiums this week and if you want to get outside, CSG is hosting a beautiful walk-a-bout in College Park. #GGWchat with David Catania: Did you love our chat with DC mayoral candidate Muriel Bowser? Don’t… Keep reading…
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Make it safe for our kids to walk or bike to school
First week of middle school. First bike ride to school. First near-fatal encounter with the #1 killer of children—cars. That scary commute was my son’s experience when he began the 2014 school year in Arlington County. And it’s the same story throughout most US metropolitan areas. Isn’t it way past time we grant our children safe passage… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Shoulder your bike
Count those bikes!; Buses on the shoulder; Channel your bike; Bike racks for Bike Rack; Church fight goes another round; Easy as VRE; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Winter is coming
Homeless numbers increase; All men must age; You know nothing, Muriel Bowser; Alleyways to fun; Don’t litter in DC; Pipeline coming to Virginia?; Arlington students walk; Walk the DC boundary; More highway spending?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taxi tactics
Taxi access; Uber fights at home and abroad; Food trucks out of Rosslyn; Vacant lot transformed; How big is White Flint?; Two-way New Hampshire; Political pieces; Solar comes to Blue Plains?; And…. Keep reading…
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When a Maryland middle schooler walks on snowy paths, one teacher is not sympathetic
Recently, we posted contributor stories about times they’d walked in places where most people don’t. A reader who is in middle school, Leo from Maryland, posted this comment which we think is worth highlighting: I am an urbanist, stuck in suburbia. (I’m in Middle School, so “stuck” isn’t exactly the right word.) Anywayyy…… Keep reading…
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Small changes can make walking to school safer
Montgomery County could do a lot to make walking to school safer and more convenient, and at little cost. All it takes is a few changes to the law, signs and paint, and retiming some traffic signals. These are the recommendations from the Safe Walk to School campaign, which launched last week. The Action Committee for Transit, the Washington Area Bicyclist Association, the mother… Keep reading…
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Bike to School Day is May 8
We’ve been doing a lot of talking about what will get more families biking. This week is Global Road Safety Week and it’s time stop talking and get the family on the road. Coincidentally, Bike to School Day is May 8. Keep reading…
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Families can learn and practice bike safety this weekend
Last month, we asked, what will get more families biking? We got lots of great suggestions. For families who want to get biking, an event this Sunday on Capitol Hill provides a great start. Kidical Mass DC, DDOT’s Safe Routes to School Program and the Washington Area Bicyclist Association will put on ABCs of Family Biking. This free event is designed for families… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: While there’s time
MD Senate funds transportation; Let ANCs talk more?; A stop for super stops; Keep Arlington in the loop as you bike; Anacostia Playhouse gets green light; People want a safer Bethesda; Fences get cut on MBT; Who got tickets?; And…. Keep reading…
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What will get more families biking?
Washington DC has made great strides over the past decade towards creating a vibrant bicycle culture. How well does this extend to families so far? How can bicycling be more appealing to families? Recent research has found that children who bike or walk to school perform better. A Danish study found that exercise, including from biking or walking to school, helped kids concentrate… Keep reading…
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Clarksburg crosswalk would cost $27 million
Only in Clarksburg would it cost $27 million to get a marked crosswalk so that children can walk to school safely and conveniently. That’s because the Montgomery County Department of Transportation refuses to install one until it spends $27 million on road construction. Clarksburg, Montgomery County’s last master-planned development in the I-270 corridor,… Keep reading…
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Montgomery DOT tells children: Don’t cross the street
Buster Keaton was being funny when he drove across the street to propose marriage in his 1924 movie The Navigator. But the Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) was completely serious last month when they told children in Clarksburg to take a school bus 4 miles out of the way instead of walking across the street. Many parents in the new Gateway Commons development… Keep reading…
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Safe Routes to School benefits kids and the community
On a recent Thursday, Vienna Elementary School had only 25 cars in the kiss-and-ride when there are usually 70. This dramatic decrease reduced congestion around the school and improved the morning commute for the entire community. The students attended class but did not arrive in cars. Today is International Walk and Bike to School Day, and more than 100 schools throughout… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Welcome and unwelcome guests
Developer wants bus stop gone; Wells wants DC United to stay; What to do with Union Station? Tour buses?; DC United not considering Prince George’s; Inflation applies to Dulles tolls; Protest updates; Cyclists’ Ed. comes to elementary school; Test scores and the achieve gap rise; And…. Keep reading…