Our Google Transit petition zoomed past 275 300

350 signers and is still going strong. The issue got great cover from DCist and NBC. Neil Albert, DC’s Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development and WMATA’s newest board member, emailed back some of the signers (or his staff did), saying “we’ll look into it.”

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.