I've been following this streatery thing from the beginning (including going to see the director @ddotdc.bsky.social testify about them in person) and it's pretty clear exactly what is happening: Mayor Bowser prefers to have this space used for car parking.

Jack Evans is lecturing someone about ethics?????

I got a chance to head down to H Street late last week to pay my respects to the Streetcar. RIP. A good idea that was poorly served by timid politicians from start to finish.

Read this thread -- the bait and switch being pulled around the new football stadium at RFK is already beginning!

Control of the House this year could come down to whether Virginia does or does not draw new congressional maps—a question that will be up to voters in less than a month. To help get out the vote for "YES", here are some in-person and remote volunteer opportunities: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

if you lost a bike accessory at yesterday's 15th street @waba.org ride, let me know! Perhaps it's the same one I found.

Great turnout on a cold windy weekday to save the 15th Street bike lane

Ward 1 neighbors: looking for the pro-housing, pro-density, YIMBY Councilmember of your dreams? @miguelward1.bsky.social is the candidate for you: miguelward1.com/priorities

this stretch of bike lane along the Mall is one of the biggest improvements for transportation in DC in the last few years. The federal government ripping it out (and the DC government seemingly doing nothing in response) is extremely foolish

this is a wild name for the press assistant of the congressman working to make DC streets way more dangerous

love that DC agreed to let the football team build a big stadium immediately, with housing promised at some undefined time in the future. And today we learn that the sites for housing will actually be several huge surface parking lots until that unknown date when the housing is built

@janeese4dc.bsky.social has been on the Council for six years! This attack on her is silly, it reminds me of when people said Barack Obama's four years in the Senate wasn't enough experience to be president.

at some point we need a system where, instead of issuing yet another ticket for being parked illegally with expired tags, the system flags the car to be towed ASAP.

Wow -- @miguelfordc.bsky.social raised the most money of any Ward 1 candidate this month! Come meet him and learn more about his campaign tomorrow night in Adams Morgan! partiful.com/e/UuTYQ9iv6O...?

Funny how the "we're not Manhattan!" argument is only ever used to promote pro-car, anti density agendas. If I said "we should get rid of free street parking in my neighborhood, we're not Manhattan!" I doubt the mayor would take me seriously

Very clever of @mayorbowser.dc.gov to (illegally) delay the release of the congestion pricing study for years, then dismiss it for being out of date!

So @kenyanmcduffie.bsky.social sees how many people park illegally in DC -- many of them from MD or VA -- making our streets less safe, and his solution is to....make the penalties lighter so that people do it even more??

Mark your calendars, next Th #MBTpubroll starts at Grand Duchess at 5:30pm to coincide with a meet & greet for Ward 1 candidate @miguelward1.bsky.social who has a fantastic pro-bike platform! Afterward biking across the park to Judy's on 14th. Come one, come all, come pub roll for more bike lanes 🚲🍻

It should cost at least as much to take a car to the airport as it does to take transit! Maybe this would cut down on the chaos and stress surrounding the car pickup lanes at every single airport i have ever been to

Since I know I told a lot of folks about it, I want to make sure to flag that @miguelward1.bsky.social is POSTPONING tonight's transportation event till next Thursday, 3/12! Same location. All details are at partiful.com/e/UuTYQ9iv6O...? and I still hope to see you there!

Come meet @miguelward1.bsky.social, who’s running to be the next Ward 1 Councilmember in DC, tomorrow Wednesday, March 4 at 6:30 pm at the Grand Duchess to learn more about his transit & housing plans! partiful.com/e/UuTYQ9iv6O...

anyone else unable to get into their pepco account because it insists on taking you to a broken 2FA signup page?

next they need to make it so that if you get to a dock an it's 100% ebikes, you don't have to pay to ride one

Wild to me that Christopher Nolan is not only making remake of O Brother Where Art Thou, but he decided to change the setting to ancient greece for some reason?!

I think it's time for the Council to consider a second expulsion vote for Councilmember White. I'm sure they were hoping to avoid it with a quick trial but another seven months is too long for him to be on the council when there's extremely credible evidence that he is corrupt.

I took @bikeshare.bsky.social yesterday for the first time since the storm and it was a pretty frustrating and difficult experience. Many bikes are impossible to check out and many open docks are too full of ice to dock back into them.

This makes sense because if there's one thing @mayorbowser.dc.gov loves more than cars speeding through downtown, it's collaborating with the trump administration

This seems to just be yet another example of nimbys saying "there's not enough affordable housing" when really they just don't want anything new built at all. No amount of affordable housing will ever satisfy them, because they don't actually want affordable housing

Just realized that if you speak with the right kind of New York accent, these two guys have the exact same name

Wow, a little slice of the Big Apple right here in DC! (Parked in a space that used to a streatery for what it's worth)

The streateries disappear on 18th street -- a series of photos taken about 5 weeks apart. Where there was once room for 20 or so people to eat, now there's room for just a single car to park.

Interesting that they're not promoting this as a way to avoid driving drunk, which is why these programs got started. But I'm all in favor of trying to get people out of rideshares!

aired my grievances before the close of 2025 and before i log off from work for a year: ggwash.org/view/101899/...

NEWS: At-Large Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie says he will be resigning from the D.C. Council on January 5, 2026. That's in preparation for his run for mayor, since he will be changing his party affiliation to Democrat and he's currently in an At-Large seat reserved for non-Democrats.

Today, I joined with my fellow Ward 1 candidates to call on the @councilofdc.bsky.social to reject the latest attempt to cancel ranked-choice voting for the 2026 elections.

So glad we tore down the Adams Morgan streateries so we have plenty of space for this guy who owes $2,200 in unpaid tickets so he can park directly in front of tryst!!!

Do we think Kenyan McDuffie's campaign graphics will use green as their primary color? I'm guessing yes

Trying to make a list of all the bike projects that DDOT planned and then seriously watered down over the last year or two... --CT Ave (obviously) --KS Ave (described below) --11th street NW --K Street NW transitway not to mention downgrading AZ ave which was already protected but isn't anymore

The people who complained about this project insist that the median is needed to prevent car collisions. Ironic that they so fervently believe a structural barrier is safer than paint… #bikedc

Important bike event coming up this week! The Ward 3 DDOT strategic bike network meeting is on Wednesday from 6pm to 8pm at UDC in Van Ness Good opportunity to tell DDOT to bring back plans for the CT Ave bike lane as well as share other thoughts about where we need a bike network in ward 3

Streateries continue to come down on 18th street. Soon we'll have space for a handful more people to park, and all we had to give up was space where hundreds of people could eat a meal!

Tomorrow is the deadline to submit comments on the Columbia Heights Bus Priority project! The slides showing the proposals are here: app.box.com/s/pd6m639kq1... And the survey itself is here: survey123.arcgis.com/share/5b1bcb...

December 3 update: All the concrete barriers are now gone and crews have started removing the streateries themselves. New "paid parking here" signs are going up as well. As a reminder, DDOT director Sharon Kershbaum promised last month that this wouldn't happen until January at the earliest.

Adams Morgan streatery update: As far as I can tell no more concrete barriers were removed today (as of about 9:30pm) but new signs have gone up indicated that metered parking is going to be allowed soon. I can confirm that both of these signs are new.

Adams Morgan streatery update -- about 2/3 of the concrete barriers have been removed, starting from the southern end of the corridor. No doubt the rest will be removed tonight. Relatedly, the Council is voting *today* on emergency legislation to try to save the streateries.

DDOT is removing the concrete barriers around Adams Morgan streateries TONIGHT. Right now. Next they'll remove the streateries themselves. As a reminder, just a few weeks ago, DDOT director Sharon Kershbaum promised that they wouldn't start removing them until January 2026.

If the Guard need someone else to guard them, they shouldn't be here in the first place. They have already wasted taxpayer dollars ($201 MILLION for '25) to do nothing. Now they're taking officers who are actually fighting crime off the beat to watch over them www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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I won't deny that Mayor Bowser has had a very tough job to do, especially in the last year. But too often, in many different areas, she made the wrong choices, focusing on what DC can't or shouldn't do, instead of what we can do. I'm glad to know we'll have a new mayor in 2027.

All of this is very predictable. Bonds and Felder have both been huge opponents of RCV, no doubt because both of them only got elected thanks to their opponents splitting the vote. Under RCV they can't count on winning again with just 36% of the vote (Bonds) or 24% (Felder)