Here’s your roundup of this week’s must-read posts: Micromobility gains huge ridership in June with 3.4 million trips; 10 years following a report of recommendations... Montgomery County still struggles to capture nightlife; ANC candidates, let us learn about you! plus: what's, uh, poo got to do with Missing Middle housing?; and inequality is so pervasive that it sometimes breaks the spatial patterns we expect to see.
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Micromobility ridership surges in DC with 3.4 million trips through June
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by Samuel Littauer (Contributor) • July 15, 2024
Micromobility is having more than a moment in DC. Private operators and Capital Bikeshare are both reporting parallel patterns of dramatically surging ridership. We dig into the latest numbers.
Where’s the nightlife in Montgomery County?
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by Weston Henry • July 16, 2024
In 2012, Montgomery County formed the Nighttime Economy Task Force to address a demographic crisis: young people were not moving to the county due to its weak nightlife options. And yet, here we are eleven years later, with no dance clubs, few late-night spots, and little evidence to suggest that the perception of the county as a social desert for singles has changed. What happened?
Do Something: The week of July 15, 2024
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by Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director), Alex Baca (DC Policy Director) • July 18, 2024
This week on Do Something: send in your ANC candidate questionnaires; how Montgomery County's economy relates to the single life; Missing Middle and bathrooms in Arlington.
Not every map is the same, actually
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by Alex Baca (DC Policy Director) • July 17, 2024
Inequity is spatial. DC’s geography reflects inequities that have been built into it over the course of generations, but sometimes those patterns defy our expectations.
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