Perhaps its not as exciting as the start of Daylight Saving Time (which is next weekend, WAHOO!) but tomorrow (March 1st) marks the start of residential street sweeping for the spring. Sweeping will take place through the end of October and information about the day and time your street will be swept are posted in [...]
Tags: Department of Public Works·Parking·street sweepers·Sweepercam·transportation
Remember when I was grousing about the dangers of crossing Pennsylvania Avenue at Potomac Avenue to Harris Teeter? Well, it seems there’s a plan — and government funding — to improve this crazy mess of an intersection. This Thursday, January 31st, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) will hold a meeting from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Payne Elementary [...]
Have you ever wanted to tell city staff what you think is important when it comes to modes of transportation? Do you feel like more bike lanes would make commutes easier? Are there tweaks to a bus route you think would be more logical than it currently is? Is a crosswalk signal a few seconds [...]
Tags: DC·DDOT·moveDC·transportation
Capitol Hill is a great place for pedestrians. Most of the time. Those of us who are car-less, or in one-car families, and dependent on our feet, our bikes or our weighed-down strollers cross a lot of intersections to make it home safely. And a few of them in my neck of the woods are [...]
Tags: DDOT·pedestrians·transportation·walkable and livable·walking
A regular roundup of interesting miscellany from our fellow neighborhood bloggers. DCMud has pics of today’s Union Market, in the midst of a transformation into DC’s “newest culinary destination” at its opening on June 3. I’m usually the first to say that the people and events of Capitol Hill make it the best place to [...]
Tags: Food·FUN·Lumen8·retail·transportation
In a move normally reserved for disciplinary action, DC Council Chair Kwame Brown removed Councilmember Tommy Wells as Chair of the Transportation and Public Works Committee. To date, Chairman Brown has failed to provide a coherent reason behind the removal other than a meaningless stream of platitudes such as, “effectively consolidate areas of similar interest,” [...]
Tags: DC Council·Kwame Brown·Tommy Wells·transportation·WMATA
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