Opinion Posts
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Three times in my life an urban place enchanted me to cry
Reflections on the poignancy of place in three different settings around the world. Keep reading…
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The DC Circulator’s electrification dilemma
The soaring cost of DDOT’s Circulator bus electrification plan threatens the continuation of the Circulator service itself, ultimately undermining the District’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals. Keep reading…
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Let Fairfax County grow
Local housing and transit advocates have a special responsibility to help Fairfax County chart a new course for land use. By succeeding, we can set an example for other suburbs to emulate. Keep reading…
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Street parking in DC is way too cheap
This post makes the case for residential parking passes in DC being worth far more than what the District charges for them. How much revenue is the city losing out on, what could be done to align the cost of RPPs with their true value, and what could all that money pay for? Keep reading…
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Improvements coming to Maryland and DC multi-use trails
Six local trails for walking and biking across Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties in Maryland and in Washington, DC, will see improvements over the next few years through the rehabilitation of some of the region’s oldest trails and the construction of new trail segments. Keep reading…
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I live with PTSD in DC. The city both helped and endangered me.
Housing, good transit, and kind neighbors helped Dave Murphy weather mental health struggles, but the District’s default crisis response actually made matters worse. Keep reading…
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The Blue Line Loop is flawed. Here’s how to improve it.
In part III of a series on Metrorail’s expansion options, Adam Bressler considers an option with strong popular support, and suggests how a key change–the Pink Line–could help Metro get more capacity for its buck. Keep reading…
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Transit Diary: A bike advocate commutes – and rescues food – on two wheels
In this Transit Diary, Renée Moore, outreach director at WABA, details her travels around the region for a week, mostly by bike and including a lot of food rescue efforts. Keep reading…
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With Parking Reimagined, Tysons lurches towards livability
Change has been slower than expected in car-oriented Tysons, Virginia in the past decade, despite Fairfax Country’s multi-modal goals. But new lower parking minimums for developments around transit could help. Keep reading…
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Metrorail’s looking at four realignments to move more riders. One is better than the others.
Four different proposed Metrorail realignments would accommodate four different models of mobility in the region. Some are more visionary than others. Keep reading…