In a frustrating move for road safety advocates, Washington, DC’s, Department of Transportation has canceled its plans to add bike lanes to a major city street. The decision comes after years of delays and despite the approval of all affected advisory commissions.
Read MoreDDOT lacks the tools and leadership to move aggressively to make DC’s streets safe, argue two advocates with local government experience.
Read MoreWashington, DC, has added miles of protected bike lanes and infrastructure to city streets in recent years—but an upcoming project will be its biggest project yet.
Read MoreDuring the pandemic, streets across the U.S. were reclaimed for human activity—but now, many cities are undoing those changes. Not so in DC's Rock Creek Park, where road closures have been made permanent.
Read MoreNorth Virginia will make multi-billion dollar decisions this year on the region’s transportation future—decisions that are only going to induce more driving.
Read MoreShould states and counties push back against local governments to crack open more options for housing, or will that be counterproductive?
Read MoreDespite their layouts, these islands of apparent urbanism out in the countryside are a sign that we’re doing something very, very wrong.
Read MoreOur drive continues through the area once called “the ugliest place in Maryland.” When you look around, though, you can find the building blocks for an urban transformation in these suburbs.
Read MoreLet’s take a drive down Rockville Pike, a major thoroughfare near DC. What kinds of development patterns will we find as we pass through each ring of suburbia?
Read MoreWe glorify our country’s rough-and-tumble entrepreneurial history, yet we often look down on people who embody it today, and on the commercial landscapes that result.
Read MoreIn 1926, activists were using the claim that their cities had enough “zoned capacity” elsewhere to argue against allowing apartment buildings in their own neighborhoods. Today, they still do. And they’re still wrong.
Read MoreThe advocacy group Transportation for America makes a bold move on transportation funding. We applaud them for it.
Read MoreIn an area where the population is growing, one question often vexes neighbors: why is that house or storefront vacant? It just doesn’t seem to make sense. Why do landlords leave properties empty when they could be getting rent?
Read MoreGentrification is producing more diverse schools and growing enrollment in Washington, DC.
Read MoreThe Purple Line corridor truly merits a rail investment, not a bus rapid transit route.
Read MoreInstead of building competing transit systems that are not compatible; why not work on utilizing existing systems to accomplish our goals while remaining economically sustainable?
Read MoreLangley Park’s auto-oriented development pattern imposes unneeded costs and burdens upon those who can least afford them.
Read MoreNew Urbanist developments are increasingly popular, yet they still betray a key tenet of the new urbanist movement: they can often only be reached by car.
Read MorePublic restrooms are a public health issue. Any town that wants to get serious about welcoming tourists into its walkable areas and encouraging its residents to spend more of their time downtown, needs to implement a public restroom strategy.
Read MoreTulsa, OK is one of the most unlikely suspects to attract urban, entrepreneurial millennials. Yet here we are.
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