Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Washington DC

DC Defends Livable Streets Improvements as WaPo Declares “War”

By Brad Aaron | Jul 9, 2008 | 10 Comments

In an effort to improve safety and mobility for pedestrians and cyclists, Washington, DC has embarked on a number of livable streets reforms (market rate street parking), and is considering others (reclaiming auto-occupied street space for people). Though a recent article in the Washington Post casts these initiatives as a "war" against car commuters, it’s […]

Donald Shoup: Planners Are Versed in Parking Politics, Not Policy

By Ben Fried | May 15, 2008 | 4 Comments

Un-Shoupian parking policy on display on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue The Toronto Star gave parking policy maven Donald Shoup some major play earlier this week, running a profile of the UCLA professor excerpted from journalist Tim Falconer’s new book, "Drive." In the piece, we learn why Shoup believes planners are apt to make bad judgments when […]

Video Contest Seeks Winning Pitch for Transit

By Ben Fried | May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment

Attention aspiring Streetfilm directors: U.S. PIRG has noticed that transit doesn’t seem to be on the radar of most pols, so it’s enlisting the YouTube generation to help lawmakers see the light. From the U.S. PIRG website: Are you tired of being stuck in traffic? Shouldn’t we have better options? In the last decade, people […]

If You Build It With Less Parking, They Will Still Come

By Brad Aaron | Apr 10, 2008 | 16 Comments

We’re nearly a couple of weeks into baseball season, and fans of the Washington Nationals are enjoying their new transit-, bike- and pedestrian-friendly stadium. The DC complex, with its transit links, shuttle buses and valet bike parking, is so accessible — and city efforts to encourage fans to get there by alternate means so […]

Congestion Pricing Bill: Fun With Legalese

By Ben Fried | Mar 21, 2008 | 27 Comments

After months of following the step-by-step evolution of the congestion pricing proposal, there’s a certain satisfaction in seeing familiar concepts codified in legislative language. To wit, we hope readers who’ve been tracking Streetsblog’s coverage of this topic enjoy these excerpts from the bill. Parse away. On short-term transit improvements: The authority [MTA] shall provide for […]

DC to Devote Parking Fees to Livable Streets

By John Kaehny | Mar 14, 2008 | 3 Comments

In a first for a big east coast city, Washington, DC, is putting the ideas of celebrated parking reformer Don Shoup to work. Spurred by concerns over game day traffic surges caused by the opening of a new baseball stadium, the city council recently created two performance parking pilot project zones. The most important […]

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