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Bus on 16th Street by BeyondDC licensed under Creative Commons.
16th Street bus lane construction begins in DC
DDOT has started constructed on a long-awaited 3-mile project that will give buses dedicated lanes and allow buses to get ahead of cars at traffic lights along 16th Street. The project should be complete by next spring. (Jordan Pascale / DCist)
140 hate incidents against Asian Americans reported across the region
A new report counted 140 incidents of hate against Asian Americans in DC, Maryland, and Virginia since March 2020. Stop AAPI Hate released the report in the wake of the murder of eight people, including six Asian Americans, in Atlanta. (Jacob Fenston / DCist)
Montgomery County moves forward with mass vaccination site
Although the Hogan administration said Montgomery County was “premature” in announcing plans for a mass COVID-19 vaccination site, county officials are still preparing to open one at Montgomery College’s Germantown campus. (Post)
Alexandria’s Water Taxi returns starting tomorrow
The Water Taxi and other cruises are returning along the Potomac River from Old Town to The Wharf in D.C., Georgetown and National Harbor for the first time since the company shut down operations last March. (James Cullum / ALXnow)
New book Creatures of Passage address gentrification, poverty, and racism in DC
A novel written by DC-raised Morowa Yejidé titled Creatures of Passage is a ghost story that also talks about the generational traumas experienced by Black Americans in DC. (Aja Beckham / DCist)
The fight in Congress over DC voting rights comes to Twitter with a new twist
A bill by US Rep. Dusty Johnson to make most of DC part of Maryland is getting new attention after a Capitol Hill reporter tweeted about the attached repeal of the 23rd Amendment, the one allowing DC residents to vote for president. (Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian)
The United States partisan segregation
A map created using the individual addresses of 180 million registered voters in the United States shows that even at the most granular level, Democrats and Republicans live apart from each other. (New York Times)
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