Transit Diary: A bike advocate commutes – and rescues food – on two wheels
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Here's our roundup of this week's must-read posts: Our latest Transit Diary features WABA's Outreach Director as she travels around the region (mostly by bike), delivering a lot of food for Food Rescue DC along the way. Advocates in Richmond are trying to stop the construction of a fire department burn site in a majority Black and Hispanic neighborhood that has been deemed an “environmental justice community," but they're running out of options. A new bill in Prince George’s County seeks to reduce traffic fatalities and make the county’s roads safer for people. Fairfax County’s new plan to lower parking minimums could help make Tysons less car-dependent. An imagined "Pink Line" could allow Metrorail to get more capacity out of its suggested Blue Line Loop.
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Renée Moore (Guest Contributor) • July 26, 2023
In this Transit Diary, Renée Moore, outreach director at WABA, details her travels around the region for a week, mostly by bike and including a lot of food rescue efforts.
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Wyatt Gordon (Contributor) • July 27, 2023
Historic preservation has often been used to block housing and as an instrument of privilege. Richmond might be flipping the script.
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Ethan Goffman (Guest Contributor) • July 25, 2023
If it passes, the Walkable Urban Streets Act will codify bike and pedestrian safety standards for county-controlled roads in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
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Mike Dranove (Guest Contributor) • July 24, 2023
Change has been slower than expected in car-oriented Tysons, Virginia in the past decade, despite Fairfax Country’s multi-modal goals. But new lower parking minimums for developments around transit could help.
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Adam Bressler (Guest Contributor) • July 27, 2023
In part III of a series on Metrorail’s expansion options, Adam Bressler considers an option with strong popular support, and suggests how a key change–the Pink Line–could help Metro get more capacity for its buck.
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