“The groups” is Congress and the President: 23 U.S.C. 217(e) says they have to add ped/bike facilities (but can get waived for cost). It’s been law for awhile. No law says they have to double the lane capacity of bridge.

Good.

There are also plenty of opportunities to create some additional north/south protected bike facilities to reduce the MBT's load! Great options include First Street NW, Lincoln Rd. NE, 4th Street NE, Brentwood/13th NE, Montana/18th, NE., Bladensburg NE., and Eastern.

most people, left and right, treat traffic violence like the weather and not a specific policy choice

Congress is apparently content with more helicopters downing passenger airplanes in DC airspace.

Can you resign from a job you never had?

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Huge congrats to Trump on winning the inaugural severed hand trophy.

Would look nicer with 10 floors of housing above it.

Judge Howell just enjoined warrantless immigration arrests in DC without probable cause to believe the person is a flight risk. Great work by ACLU and Amica www.courtlistener.com/docket/71452...

DDOT continues to publish before/after analyses of safety projects. The numbers for the 9th street NW bike lanes suggest that we should be doing these projects everywhere we can. Crashes plummeted, pedestrian and bike traffic skyrocketed, and vehicle travel times dropped.

Seems like this could be the final nail in the coffin for a pretty popular e-bike brand. www.theverge.com/news/828004/...

An administration’s malevolence once again undercut by abject incompetence.

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Almost half the Waymos on California streets are driving around empty. They're either waiting for the next customer or en route for a pickup. If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock. www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...

A mockery of justice. The US Attorney should be sanctioned by the court and disbarred for this.

Also, Trump is completely incoherent without editing—even though his followers and everyone else knows exactly what he’s saying.

Except, you know, for the fact that it’s permitted.

This weekend the Washington Spirit play in the NWSL semi-finals, and I got a chance to chat with team captain and goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury about the pressure of penalty kicks, the rowdy Spirit fanbase, and her favorite baked goods in the D.C. region: 51st.news/aubrey-kings...

Today’s reporting reminds me of this recent picture from right outside one of our local high schools. We’re seeing a lot of youth use bikeshare to get to school these days—and in case you missed it, DC’s school attendance crisis is currently grave. Maybe we should be encouraging this!

It was a beautiful day to celebrate the opening of the Metropolitan Branch Trail from Fort Totten to Takoma! The Metropolitan Branch Trail is more than just a bike path -- it connects us to each other, to schools and work and recreation, and to a vibrant alternative to sitting in traffic.

Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers. It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.

Never thought I would live to see the day the Metropolitan Branch Trail stretch from Fort Totten to Takoma along Blair Road NW opened, but here we are!

A decade ago, solar power barely registered in Hungary’s electricity mix — just 0.2% of generation. Back then, nuclear, coal, and gas dominated the grid. Fast forward ten years and solar power now supplies around 1/4 of Hungary’s electricity — a remarkable transformation.

Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.

A timely reminder that there are **enormous** legal risks for state and local jurisdictions that commit or are complicit in civil rights violations.

The results speak for themselves: another sub-par day for the Department of Justice.

I don’t think we acknowledge enough how much of an enormous personal sacrifice it is to run and serve in public office—especially in Congress where you are likely to have to make difficult choices about whether to move your family (on top of sacrifice time with them, which is guaranteed).

Lots of competition when it came to good news yesterday. Very proud of this one that may have slipped under folks’ radars: wapo.st/3XaOyEK

The news from yesterday’s elections keeps on getting better.

It was a good day at the office 👇

I'm dogged about alleviating poverty in the District for families and children. That's why I've championed the Child Tax Credit, shown to be the single most effective anti-poverty measure in the past 60+ years. Tomorrow, I'm moving an amendment alongside 9 of my colleagues to finally secure it.

The White House is being covered in gold and marble while the administration wants millions of Americans from all walks of life to go without health care and food.

NEW: We just filed a lawsuit alongside 25 states to restore SNAP food assistance during the federal shutdown. 141,000 DC residents rely on SNAP to afford their meals — including 47,000 children and 24,000 seniors. We will do everything in our power to prevent DC families from going hungry.

What if most of downtown DC was a Christmas market?

Join us Saturday for the @ward5familybiking.bsky.social ride to Eckington Day at Tanner Park!

Morons all the way down.

This morning at 12th and E NW, I saw a woman holding her open laptop in one hand while she was DRIVING AN SUV with the other.

Great to see. Many thanks to @nomabid.bsky.social for working with @ddotdc.bsky.social to move this forward!

You could buy yourself a new (acoustic) bike every month for the same amount it now costs to lease or finance the average new car. And you could buy a new cargo ebike every 5-10 months depending on how fancy you want to get.

Interesting: @cmzparker5.bsky.social has introduced a package of 16 bills his office says is "aimed at youth wellbeing" in D.C. There's bills to increase pay in the summer jobs program, improve early intervention to prevent truancy, require more transparency from DYRS, and more.

Very excited for this @ward5familybiking.bsky.social Halloween bike ride and planting party in collaboration with another Ward 5 gem: Friends of the National Arboretum! Mark your calendars for October 25!!

There are many things we could be focusing on instead of fitness tests for 60 year old generals or law abiding immigrants. One on my mind is how you protect civilians from the use of this kind of weapon. www.businessinsider.com/russia-turns...

To give you a sense of the opportunity cost, $40 million would probably enough to convert most of the District’s 74 miles of painted bike lanes to protected lanes.

The bottle bill will increase DC’s recycling rates. By making bottles worth 10 cents when they are returned, we are helping make sure people don’t just throw them on the ground. WUSA9’s coverage of my legislation to help protect and preserve our natural resources. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Important paper from @rycalder.bsky.social, Rachel Clark, and Claire Summa analyzing 2019-2023 trauma data from DC traffic crashes. They found that injury rates *increased* and that racial disparities exist *for every user type* including pedestrians & cyclists. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41014831/

The fact that men on average can outperform women in physical fitness tests seems like a really unimportant consideration when staffing an army for a world in which drones now dominate the battlefield.

Another gap soon to be closed!

Capitol police have been running these in the parks near Union Station since the immediate aftermath of January 6 despite receiving tens of millions in additional fund to improve security around the Capitol complex.

Here’s another: I have always had very pleasant and thorough follow through on 311 requests for tree work plantings and bike racks (both DDOT services)!