DCist: D.C. Quietly Banned Biking With Headphones This Year
The prohibition on plastic straws drew most of the attention, but the new year also began with a more under-the-radar ban: biking with headphones.
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WTOP: DC proposes tighter ban on drivers blocking bike lanes
WASHINGTON — New D.C. rules would make it crystal clear: Drivers cannot stop in or otherwise block bike lanes.
Next to Rock Creek Park, neighborhood resistance to District’s rain gardens on city streets
In a verdant Northwest neighborhood named after its woods, residents are vowing to resist the city’s efforts to add more greenage with over two dozen rain gardens on local streets.
As part of the District’s plan to clean waterways of…
DCist: Report: Less Than 1 Percent Of Capital Bikeshare Rides Begin In Wards 7 And 8
Since launching in 2010, the Capital Bikeshare program has increased its offerings to hundreds of bikeshare stations across the city and region. But whiter, high-income neighborhoods generally have more stations than others, and the docks…
WTOP: New DC signs banning right turns on red to go up starting Feb. 19
WASHINGTON — “No right turn on red” signs will start going up in dozens of new D.C. locations starting Feb. 19, as long as weather permits.
Washington Business Journal: Local executives prod Bowser to speed up 5G regulations
Local tech executives are urging D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to speed up the regulatory process laying the groundwork for next-generation wireless networks — especially now that Amazon is putting a portion of its second headquarters in the…
WTOP: Expanding DC’s ‘no right turn on red’ could backfire, AAA says
WASHINGTON — D.C. is moving to ban right turns on red lights at another 100 intersections by July.
WUSA9: Potholes in DC are worse than last year. Here’s why
Lots of rain and wild temperature swings have created big pothole problems in the District.
DCist: Requests For Pothole Repairs Are Double Their Normal Amount
It’s not just your block that looks like it’s been hit by asteroids: the number of requests for pothole repairs in the District is double what it usually is this time of year.
Washington Post: Potholes strike D.C. region in force after a season of heavy rain
It is the bane of most drivers’ existence — the dreaded pothole.
WAMU: Will These Yellow Poles Help Protect Pedestrians From Deadly Left Turns? D.C. Hopes So.
Picture this: You’re sitting at a busy District intersection with your turn signal on waiting to turn left. Traffic from the other direction is heavy. You’re poised to find your opening. Maybe your phone goes off. Or your kids are screaming…
DCist: ‘A Juggernaut That Needs A Solution’: Bowser Commits To Fixing One Of The City’s Most Vexing…
On a walk through NoMa on Wednesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser committed to fixing one of the more vexing intersections in the District, the triangular plot of land that forms a “virtual circle” where New York Avenue crosses Florida Avenue in…
Washington Post: D.C. names new traffic safety office director — a transportation policy veteran
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has selected a transportation policy veteran to lead the city’s ambitious plan to dramatically reduce traffic fatalities.
Mayor Bowser Names Linda Bailey Director of the Newly Created Vision Zero Office
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January 16, 2019
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Mayor Bowser Names Linda Bailey Director of the Newly Created Vision Zero Office
As the Bowser Administration Continues to Roll Out Vision Zero…
Capitol Hill Corner: Neighbors Protest New Bikeshare Rack at 11th and C Streets, SE
Residents near the intersection of 11th and C SE say that despite 160 signatures (many from customers of the adjacent dry cleaner) opposing the installation pictured above, DDOT brushed aside their concerns and installed the Bikeshare rack…
Washington Post: Ford’s futurist, and city planners, try to see past the conventional car
When Sheryl Connelly was growing up in Metro Detroit, she worried that the ease of newfangled power steering was going to lull Americans into oblivion.
Washington Post: District is ramping up street safety measures for the new year
After a year marked by a rise in traffic fatalities, the District is entering 2019 with a plan city officials hope will make streets safer for its 700,000 residents and the hundreds of thousands more who visit and work in the nation’s…
Curbed DC: D.C. is about to see a lot more electric bikes and scooters this year
Get ready for more dockless electric bikes and electric scooters in the District in 2019.
DDOT moves ahead on plans for three new protected bike lanes in Northwest
Editor's Note: Originally published on Jan. 4, this post has been updated with the new Feb. 13 deadline for public comment.
The District is moving forward with plans to expand its network of protected bike lanes with three new routes…
Washington Post: Tougher penalties for speeding and other road infractions go into effect Friday
If you speed and ignore other rules of the road in the District — and get caught — it’s going to cost you more starting today.