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Greater Greater Washington

Two key constraints on improving Metrorail service—and eight ways to overcome them

Adam Bressler (Guest Contributor) • November 12, 2024

Frequency of service gets more people riding transit, and provides them with a better ride while making the system more efficient. In the second half of this series, Adam Bressler considers several ways WMATA could improve frequency on Metrorail.

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Traffic violence claims lives. These advocates want you to remember

Brian Goggin (Contributor) • November 15, 2024

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2024 is Sunday, November 17. In the weeks preceding, safe streets advocates posted signs around DC to memorialize people whose loves were lost to traffic violence, and to call for change.

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We’re allowed to train ANCs now, thanks to the First Amendment

Chelsea Allinger (Executive Director) • November 12, 2024

In January 2023, GGWash was all set to hold trainings for Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners on the issues they might face and how to navigate DC’s bureaucracies. But the DC Board of Ethics and Accountability told Commissioners the trainings constituted “illegal gifts”. Partnering with the Institute for Justice, we sent a letter in September 2024 challenging BEGA’s position on the basis of freedom of speech. Find out what happened.

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The contours of child care in the District will teach us about its future

Joe Fretwell, Tim Green • November 13, 2024

A new research series, supported by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, goes deep on broad trends in the supply of and need for child care in the District, including the means by which physical spaces and built environment that define daily life for DC’s youngest residents

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Do Something: The week of November 11, 2024

Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director), Alex Baca (DC Policy Director) • November 14, 2024

This week: join us for happy hour in Capitol Hill and White Oak; celebrating small victories in DC, Maryland, and Virginia; and bus lanes on Georgia Avenue.

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