Here's our roundup of this week's must-read posts! Virginia counties face Herculean obstacles to building bus shelters. Congressional bill honors Sarah Langenkamp's legacy with bike/ped funding. Unsavory memories of Tastee Diner. Plus: Car-free Rock Creek, Hill Family Biking, MBT expansion, and Yellow Line turnback.

Why it’s so hard to build bus shelters in Virginia

Wyatt Gordon (Virginia Mercury) • April 11, 2023

Why Virginia bus stop improvements are locked in battles between individual jurisdictions and the Virginia Department of Transportation and other state agencies.

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Sarah Langenkamp’s legacy lives on in Congressional bill to increase federal bike/ped funding

Kea Wilson (Streetsblog) • April 13, 2023

If passed, the bill would end the requirement for municipalities to match federal bike/pedestrian spending dollars and allow the federal government to put more funding directly into those projects.

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Open Rock Creek Park to people. Close it to cars.

David Edmondson (Contributor) • April 10, 2023

The case for closing more of Rock Creek Park to cars.

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Hill Family Biking: New group to organize rides, call for safe streets

Mark Sussman (Contributor) • April 12, 2023

A community’s efforts to fill a critical one-block gap in a safe biking network met with limited but intense opposition. Now, a group is forming to encourage families in Capitol Hill to bike together and support safe, inclusive infrastructure.

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Turnback on the clock: How ending the Yellow Line at Mt. Vernon Square will improve headways

Porter Crumpton (Guest Contributor) • April 13, 2023

Although many are interpreting the turnback as a service cut, this configuration will provide 6-minute headways and more equitable coverage for Green Line riders. 

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Plan to extend the MBT to Maryland has safety flaws

Tony Camilli (Contributor) • April 14, 2023

The Metropolitan Branch Trail is finally being extended to Maryland, but one resident long involved with plans to extend it argues that the current designs should do more to ensure user safety.

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Tastee Diner is not Silver Spring’s soul

Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director) • April 12, 2023

I wondered why I can’t just give in and enjoy Tastee Diner the same way. One reason is that, for a few reasons, I didn’t go to Tastee Diner much. The other is that to say one diner marks the decline of an entire community is short-sighted.

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