There was an overwhelming majority of YIMBYs at the DC2050 workshop today, like 10:1 in favor of more housing…I’m so hesitant to be optimistic but the fact that both JLG and McDuffie have come out in support of more upzoning gives me hope that there will be major revisions

put this image on posters around the city and JLG would clear 80%

"There are three Capital Bikeshare stations...that will be removed." My best guess is that it will be these 3 stations circled below From 3/20 - 4/10 last year: 15 St & Constitution Ave: 60th busiest (129 rides/day) Jefferson Dr & 14th St SW: 8th! (239/day) Jefferson Memorial: 4th!! (260/day)

There were around 500 non-CaBi daily micromobility trips on this part of 15th st in Q2 last year - that's probably around 1,500 total trips taking into account CaBi and personal vehicles with significantly higher totals than that during cherry blossom season

👎🏼 The District's planning agency is only considering this tiny handful of parcels in Ward 1 for increased density in the next Comprehensive Plan. This draft map is, in a word, unambitious. The density of Ward 1 is one of its greatest assets and we deserve more of it.

A much closer result than I expected given the vibes in the room! The weirdness of the format aside, it’s great to see how strong the support is for pro transit/biking candidates in Ward 1

Ward 1 candidates fundraising totals from 2/1 to 3/10 and total: Aparna Raj: $4,782 ($3900 DC); $63,746 total Rashida Brown: $4,565 ($3,425 DC); $33,271 total Miguel T.D.: $4,815 ($3,895 DC); $16,318 total Terry Lynch: $790 ($640 DC); $12,347 total Jackie R.Y.: hasn't reported yet ($22,530 on 1/31)

I generally support an ambitious complete streets plan but I would rather focus political capital on reducing street parking from both sides of the street to just one like Scenario 2 does, even if that means PBLs won't fit into every project

A great time at the Ward 1 candidate forum! A couple takes in no particular order:

just learned that there's a sixth candidate for Ward 1 I didn't know about and I'm obsessed (pejorative) www.jettjasperfordcward1.com

I had been open-minded about the power of Xenu and the coming armageddon of the Galactic Confederacy but window wraps are the final straw

People be like “we could never do congestion pricing, DC isn’t NYC” and then act like it’s normal for K st to turn into a parking lot any time there’s any sort of disruption downtown

What are the odds Bowser drags her feet on restoring protection to downtown bike lanes out of spite? You know, so delivery trucks can access the curb and aren’t interfering with traffic flow which helps downtown recover or something like that

For @ggwash.org, I explored what a "Zohran for DC" mayoral campaign would look like on housing. The old political coalitions are breaking. Now is the time for the left-YIMBY candidate. ggwash.org/view/102257/...

I’m assuming road conditions or some extenuating circumstance is to blame but this is some ELITE bus bunching - 3 C61s in a row! They’re supposed to run every 12 minutes!

Best sneckdown I’ve seen so far at the corner of Klingle & Adams Mill. Drivers regularly fly through the red arrow turning right so this would slow them by narrowing the roadway and offer a mid-block refuge for pedestrians @ddotdc.bsky.social

Pedestrians (and skiers) outnumbered cars on 16th st earlier today because the sidewalks were impassible

Vision Zero Attention to Kerning

Happy anniversary to congestion pricing

Visited my neighborhood Streets Market 99 times in 2025. Here’s to triple digits in 2026 🎆

Love that WMATA is thriving, but major missed opportunity to not introduce a whimsical mascot for Tap Ride Go @wmatagm.bsky.social

Devastated that I dropped from 1 to 2% despite taking 50 more trips this year but I guess that means more people are riding Metro! And shoutout to @wmata.com and probably to White64 which is the design firm that made Metro Rewind last year because this is beautifully designed

Gonna be hard for Randy Clarke to regain the public’s trust after this one

Putting aside that this is the most pro-transit platform I've seen from a candidate, the thing that I love most is how detailed it is! It's still early of course but there's 6 candidates for Ward 1 and Aparna's the only one with a detailed policy platform

womp womp: Capital Bikeshare November ridership was down 20% compared to last year…446k down from 557k. And that’s with lots of new stations introduced in the past year. Private micromobility are still setting records post-Federal takeover so most of the blame has to lie with the Aug price increase

Currently listening to the discussion on the emergency streatery bill: Pinto seems to be trying to add a poison pill amendment to Allen’s bill to force businesses to fully submit a new streatery permit every 2 years and allow public comment

McDuffie was the lone “no” vote on this for some reason

Last January I took the (4 hr late) Floridian from Rockville and I deadass pulled out a @milesintransit.com video to make sure I wasn’t being pranked because there’s pretty much zero Amtrak signage at the station

First streatery coming down on Mt Pleasant St 😢

Great (but sad) article about the death of streateries! I’m reminded of a day in June when I stumbled across a NACTO walking tour where DDOT trumpeted the success of the original streatery program. Praying we get a new mayor who will stand aside and let DDOT planners cook again!

Walking into the Columbia Heights Crosstown open house I hear “…so the podcast hosts have this new book out called Life After Cars…” Definitely the most pro-urbanist crowd I’ve seen at a DDOT open house! Scenario 2 is about to be my whole personality

Love the integration of RTD ticketing with the Transit app! Still wish WMATA had gone the route of partnering with them rather than investing the resources to build MetroPulse

Ok, hear me out: Virginia is saving hundreds of millions of dollars by not extending the toll lanes to Woodrow Wilson Bridge and they want to reduce congestion? HYDROFOILS ON THE POTOMAC!!!

Oh ok so this would explain why K st was full gridlock and why there was a 15+ min gap in buses on 16th st

Praise for Montreal's bike-share system, from TIME. Worth a holiday thread on a couple of operational + political aspects of Bixi's history that are intriguingly left unsaid.

It's been a good ride but Capital Bikeshare's 44 month YoY streak of growth is over. Just 625k rides in Sept vs 665k in Sept '24, a 6% decline. It's easy to point to the Federal occupation and bad vibes in DC, but after breaking down ridership trends, I think the Aug price increase is to blame 1/

I don’t care how poorly planned or executed it was, this makes me so sad. Everything symbolic aside, even with the streetcar averaging 6-7k riders per day, the D20/D2X are overcrowded (13k daily riders) - that’s why they built a streetcar! Crowding will only get worse even with extra buses

fare evasion this, fare evasion that, meanwhile I’m upset when a broken fare box means my trip won’t get counted for Metro Rewind

Release the Illustrator files

WMATA moved fast on the bus decals!

“We’re saying goodbye to the single-family home,” Persaud said. “We had a funeral service to say our goodbyes and to look around, because a lot of these people here won’t be here when all this development starts.” bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/11/c...

We can take many paths to improve Transit to Trails access from DC. Here are a few, from most to least feasible:

By the width of a spoke, Capital Bikeshare's 44 month YoY streak of ridership gains continues! 639k rides in August vs 614k last year, an increase of just 4% (in spite of the very dry weather!). The price increase is likely to blame - below I discuss how ridership patterns are changing 1/

I’ll post a full deep dive, probably on Monday, but CaBi data for August is out and for once, the vibes are not good! The 43 month YoY streak survived, but barely (just 4% growth!). It appears cost increases and fascism have a negative effect on bikeshare

Really proud to share this article I wrote for ggwash! Prior to falling down the transit rabbit hole, hiking (& ultralight gear design) was my main passion so Transit to Trails sits at the intersection of both

whoa new CaBi station just south of 16th and Park! Already almost empty of course!

Happy Labor Day! In honor of not working, let’s check in on some of the Bowser administration’s bus priority projects (because DDOT are saints, I’m not blaming them for this):

More typical bunching shenanigans on 16th st but this pic also made me realize that this bus lane isn’t actually useful - the D60 and D6X both turn left onto K st so by the time they pass the M st stop they’re moving to the left lane

From this past weekend…Bladensburg Waterfront Park is such a hidden gem as a transit accessible spot for cheap kayak rentals and equally good birdwatching and Acelawatching

I’m generally a light rail (in the US) and BRT (everywhere) skeptic but when it’s common to see 4 buses (2 articulated) bunched together on a line with dedicated bus lanes and all are packed, we’ve gotta start looking at increasing capacity