Posts by Bryan Rodda — Contributor
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Should 7th Street near Eastern Market be for people or cars on weekends?
For years, two blocks around Eastern Market have been closed to cars, and on weekends operates as an outdoor extension of the famous market hall. Now, one of the blocks might reopen to traffic, sparking a debate over the best way to use this valuable public space. Keep reading…
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The new Klingle Valley trail connects Woodley Park and Mount Pleasant
A new trail across Rock Creek Park opened on Saturday, restoring public access to a part of the park that has been closed for a generation. The car-free walking and biking path connects to the Rock Creek multi-use trail and links the neighborhoods of Cleveland Park, Woodley Park, and Mount Pleasant. Keep reading…
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AAA Mid-Atlantic: “Yeah, let’s not make our roads safer.”
Unsafe driving is a major problem in DC, and to fix it the District should ticket drivers less frequently and make fines cheap. At least, that’s what AAA Mid-Atlantic had to say in its recent comments about traffic offenses and fines in the city. Keep reading…
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Sprawling metro areas are growing faster than anywhere else in the US
Across the US, people flocked to urban cores in the early 2010s. But lately, growth has picked up in outer, less dense suburban places, particularly in the nation’s most sprawling metro areas in the South and Southwest. Keep reading…
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For some, Capital Bikeshare remains the most convenient way to travel
More than three-fourths of Capital Bikeshare members have a station within five blocks of their house, and about one-third started using the system more after Metro started SafeTrack. These numbers—and many other facts about CaBi users—come from CaBi’s most recent membership survey. Keep reading…
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DC Streetcar ridership is growing, and people are still riding the X2 and X9 buses, too
DC’s two-mile streetcar route overlaps two popular Metrobus lines, the X2 and X9, and when the streetcar started some wondered whether it would poach those lines’ riders. WMATA recently crunched the data, and it turns out overall transit ridership along the H Street/Benning Road corridor is up 15% since February. Keep reading…
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Should a “historic gas station” keep new housing units from going up in Dupont?
A new building with housing and ground-level retail was set to go up just west of Dupont Circle, but the project has stalled because some DC officials say it would harm a historic gas station building. There’s often tension between wanting to preserve historic buildings and needing to build more housing for a region that will continue to grow. We asked our contributors what they think… Keep reading…
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Meet Anacostia’s newest bike trail. It might be the most beautiful in the region.
A new four-mile trail just opened along the east bank of the Anacostia River. It joins two trails that were already there to create one big, continuous path that runs from where the Anacostia meets the Potomac to a number of places well into Maryland. Keep reading…
