This week in our round-up of must-read posts: Would a more regional model help Capital Bikeshare build on its success?; GGWash started a second non-profit; how to keep bicycling with your family in the cold; the first installment in a series called Why Traffic?; a recap of the Capital Region Transportation Forum; DC finally picks up the slack on vehicle enforcement.
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CaBi is a huge success. Will the program structure allow it to keep growing regionally?
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by David Meyer • December 2, 2024
The Capital Bikeshare system is one of the Washington region’s biggest post-pandemic transportation success stories. But its growth is concentrated within the District, and shows uneven progress across the wider region. A model that integrates it with our regional transit system could help—but there are tradeoffs.
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Big news: We started up a second nonprofit
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by Chelsea Allinger (Executive Director) • December 3, 2024
Drumroll please….GGWash just launched a second nonprofit organization! Read on for why, and please join us in celebrating the launch of Greater Greater Washington Commons.
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Family Biking Matters: Biking in the cold
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by Will Handsfield (Guest Contributor) • December 5, 2024
Are you a fair-weather family cyclist, breaking out the cargo bike when the sun shines but reluctant to brave the colder months? This month it’s Chill Family Biking, as we bring you top tips to keep you pedaling as temperatures drop.
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Why is traffic inevitable? It’s complicated
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by David Edmondson (Contributor) • December 3, 2024
The economics that create traffic congestion are bound up in a series of paradoxes, whose underlying calculations and philosophy have filled books. By unpacking these paradoxes, we can see why traffic exists, why adding lanes won’t solve it, how it negatively impacts all modes of travel, and why road pricing—the kind Manhattan is once again trying to enact—is the only way for anyone to ever end traffic congestion. Part 1 in a series.
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Regional ruminations on display at the 2024 Capital Region Transportation Forum
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by Aden Yacobi • December 6, 2024
Dispatches from the seventh annual convening include big successes for WMATA ridership, but persistent questions of—and absent commitments to—financially sustaining the system.
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DC is finally taking plate enforcement seriously
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by Caitlin Rogger (Deputy Executive Director) • December 5, 2024
Too many lives have been disrupted and harmed by scofflaw drivers who made a joke of enforcement with fake, expired, or obscured license plates, especially in recent years. But the DC Council and Department of Public Works are now taking real action.
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