You liked to read and talk about the Purple Line, bicycle crashes, and development in 2015. Here’s a look back at the stats for what posts got the most (and least) traffic, comments, and sharing this year.

The number one most-read post of the year was Peter Dovak’s terrific map of what the regional transit map could look like if the Purple and Red Lines become a reality (sadly, now only a hypothetical alternate universe reality).

Map by Peter Dovak.

Most shared: The top tweet honor went to Chris Hamilton’s “10 steps to take 100,000 cars off DC’s roads” (what a shareable title!) and Matt Johnson’s “See America’s light rail and streetcars at the same scale.

Most liked, besides Peter’s transit map, was Ottawa has a four mile ice skating highway (Dan Malouff) and our April Fool’s joke, Nation’s first bicycle HOT lanes planned for Mt. Vernon Trail.

Ottawa’s Rideau skateway. Photo by Ted Court on Flickr.

Most comments: What did you all comment on most? Apparently, Maryland transportation, with 355 comments on “Hogan stalls on Purple Line, calls it too expensive and 246 on A driver killed Tom Palermo in Baltimore, but road designers deserve some blame, too,” by Jeff Lemieux.

That latter post continues the trend of having a highly-discussed, high-traffic about a bicycle crash each year. Last year, there was the driver hitting Evan Wilder and throwing his bike into the back of a pickup truck — the most-commented post of the year. In 2013, we had “It must have been your fault. C’mon. You are a biker,” Zach T’s story of getting hit by a turning driver, having police not believe his story, and proving his side with surveillance video.

The top posts by category

You didn’t only read and talk about light rail lines in Maryland and drivers in Maryland hitting cyclists, though. We write about a lot of topics, including transit, development, education, walking and biking, public spaces, roads, government budgets, and much more. Here are some posts from this year in each high-level category that scored highly in traffic, comments, and/or shares:

Buildings (including development, zoning, architecture, retail, and preservation):

Education:

Government (including politics, budgets, and demographic data):

History:

Walking and bicycling:

The Kenwood Country Club side of River Road. Photo by Richard Hoye.

Photography (including Flickr roundups and WhichWMATA):

Public spaces (including parks, plazas, and the environment):

Photo by Dan Malouff.

Roads (including traffic, highways, and taxis):

Transit:

Shanghai’s maglev. Photo by Rob Faulkner on Flickr.

What posts stick out in your mind from 2015?

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.