Posts about Roads
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Events: How can the Anacostia not be a transportation barrier?
In a city known for its walkability, residents and workers in Ward 7 and 8 face a different reality. Long commutes, dangerous streets, and car dependence can make communities east of the Anacostia feel locked in. It’s not just geography, but disinvestment in infrastructure, lack of bike lanes, disproportionate pedestrian fatalities, and inequitable distribution of scooters - choices that have public and private solutions. Keep reading…
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Parkside residents ask DC to make streets safer
Residents of DC’s Parkside neighborhood want the city to curb speeding cars, better organize parking, fix dangerous streets, and improve access in their community, which borders the Anacostia River and DC-295. Keep reading…
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DC’s bicycle commuter movement was activated 50 years ago
People in Washington, DC have been biking to work, and for work, for more than a century, but the bicycle commuter movement in DC celebrates something of an anniversary this year. It was in 1969 that the District Council held the first hearing on bicycle commuting and the the District subsequently installed the first bicycle route for commuters. Keep reading…
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Why do reporters still unquestioningly quote AAA on speed cameras?
AAA does not like speed cameras, and pursues a particular (and effective) strategy of constantly filing FOIA requests for data about the revenue from speed cameras and putting out press releases which cast the cameras in a negative light and try to frame the cameras as mostly being about a cash grab by local governments. Keep reading…
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Local bicycle shops ask Mayor Bowser to get serious about road safety
While advocates are often the ones who generate events and statements about road safety, now local bike shops are also speaking out about Vision Zero. On Monday, several local bicycle shop owners sent an open letter to DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, urging her to make the District safer for people who bike. You can read it in full below. Keep reading…
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No changes have been made to the Kenilworth intersection where Sherron Pressley died
The man accused of striking and killing 51-year-old Sherron Pressley with his car on Kenilworth Avenue NE has a hearing before the DC Superior Court this Friday, May 17. While the case is moving forward, little has changed at the dangerous intersection where Pressley died more than eight months ago. Keep reading…
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Buzzard Point residents reject a plan for 125 parking spaces
When people living in Buzzard Point and other nearby neighborhoods in southwest DC found out that DC United was moving in, there were mixed emotions—fear of displacement, excitement over the possibility of neighborhood amenities, and concern over more traffic. Keep reading…
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Video: This traffic solution is gaining traction in the US and our region
The possibility of implementing decongestion pricing, a toll levied on motor vehicles entering the busiest parts of a city, continues to gain momentum in the United States. Manhattan now plans to roll out its ambitious plan to charge privately-owned vehicle drivers a flat fee to any car entering below 60th Street. Keep reading…
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Vision how many? We’re still tracking how many people are killed while traveling in DC
In the time I conceived the idea for this article on 2:20 pm on May 6 to when I got home to put words on paper around 9 pm, the traffic fatality count in DC had already ticked up another notch. In case you’re counting, that puts us at 10 traffic-related fatalities inside DC’s borders in 2019. That’s the same number as this date last year. Keep reading…
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Reston, we have a problem
Reston — the nationally-renowned Fairfax County New Town founded in 1964 — is at a crossroads. While the physical fabric outside the Reston Town Center has changed little over the last two decades, the community’s founding vision of inclusion has begun to slip into the background. Keep reading…