How Cleveland Park’s getting its groove back
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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