Here's our roundup of this week's must-read posts! How Cleveland Park has opened its doors to more homes, more transit, more businesses, and more people, plus what's in store for the future. Advocates and planners have been outlining two major trail projects to improve walking and biking in DC’s wards 7 and 8 for years—now it’s up to the Council. Parts of eastern Montgomery County were purposely planned to be boring, but after 20 years, that may be changing. Pilot lanes may give bus & bike rides a boost while Montgomery County plans for a permanent Bus Rapid Transit project. And what GGWash asked for in our 2024 budget testimony.

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How Cleveland Park’s getting its groove back
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by Bob Ward (Contributor) • May 24, 2023

The activists, business owners, and neighbors who have worked for years to make Cleveland Park a truly urban neighborhood take a well-deserved victory lap for the release of design guidelines for it.
The fate of two trail projects in southeast DC is too uncertain
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by Brenda Lee Richardson (Guest Contributor), Kalli Krumpos (Guest Contributor) • May 25, 2023

Residents have campaigned for decades for a Shepherd Branch trail and a safer Suitland Parkway trail, successfully winning funding in the proposed FY24 budget. But there’s a chance that money might be reallocated before the DC Council passes its final budget on May 30, 2023.
A plan to make this Montgomery County neighborhood less boring
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by Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director) • May 22, 2023

Where I grew up, one of my closest friends rode his Razor scooter down a literal highway to hang out with me, and my dad drove across the street for an interview because it wasn't safe. Finally, Montgomery County will do something about that with the Fairland and Briggs Chaney Master Plan.
Montgomery County’s University Blvd to get a temporary bus/bike lane, awaiting BRT
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by Ethan Goffman (Contributor) • May 24, 2023

Montgomery County’s Department of Transportation will build short-term shared lanes to speed riders along and provide the county data, as it prepares to re-engineer the corridor and add bus rapid transit in the coming years.
Here’s what GGWash said at DC’s budget hearings for fiscal year 2024
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by Caitlin Rogger (Deputy Executive Director), Kai Hall (Policy Officer), Alex Baca (DC Policy Director) • May 23, 2023

What GGWash said at the District’s FY24 budget oversight hearings




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