Note: GGWash office will be closed on Monday, January 20 for the holiday and there will be no daily email. See you on Tuesday!
This week in our round-up of must-read posts: A stadium at RFK is a bad idea, but whether one comes together or not, another Metro station is essential; when to say no & when to say yes: tell MoCo Council to say yes to good housing reform; a new simulator shows that road pricing has promise for DC; GGWash staff share their Metro Rewind reflections; GGWash lists regional resolutions for 2025; Virginia still has work to do to remove Confederate names from its roadways; officials need to figure out how to build more housing if they are going to focus on regulating new construction.
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Whether or not it gets a stadium, RFK needs a second Metro station
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by Nick Sementelli (Board of Directors) • January 16, 2025
The District shouldn’t redevelop RFK unless it’s accompanied by an infill station at Oklahoma Avenue NE. Part II in a series.
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Do Something: The week of January 13, 2024
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by Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director), Alex Baca (DC Policy Director) • January 17, 2025
This week: it’s okay to NIMBY a stadium, actually; run for a still-vacant ANC seat; Moore Housing gets a sequel; and remind the Montgomery County Council that most people want things.
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Road pricing could make transportation in the District more equitable
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by D. Taylor Reich (Contributor) • January 13, 2025
New York has finally begun its congestion-pricing program. Research for GGWash shows that, if a similar policy were implemented in DC, transportation would become more equitable without inconveniencing the average Washingtonian.
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2024 Rewind reflections from the GGWash staff
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by Chelsea Allinger (Executive Director), Alex Baca (DC Policy Director), Tricia Chicka (Communications Fellow), Kai Hall (DC Policy Manager), Dean Howell (Policy Fellow), Sandy Lawrence (Operations Director), Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director), Caitlin Rogger (Deputy Executive Director) • January 17, 2025
Happy Metro Rewind week to all who celebrate.
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Regional resolutions for 2025
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by Alex Baca (DC Policy Director), Kai Hall (DC Policy Manager), Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director), Caitlin Rogger (Deputy Executive Director) • January 15, 2025
The new year gives us a great chance to lean into our strengths, and cut the habits and beliefs that aren’t serving us. Here are the GGWash policy team’s predictions, and things we’d like to see, for the Washington region in 2025. Plus, a word from some of our contributors and supporters.
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Route 1 is no longer called Jefferson Davis Highway, but other Virginia roads still bear Confederate names
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by George Leventhal (Guest Contributor) • January 15, 2025
US Route 1 was designated Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia in 1922, in response to a campaign by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Following decades of activism, a state law was enacted in 2021 to compel local jurisdictions to rename their portions of the highway. But many monuments to the Confederacy, including other road names, still persist across Virginia. What will it take for jurisdictions to stop celebrating traitors?
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The 1% solution: Regulating new construction is a really slow way to change an entire city
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by Payton Chung (Board of Directors) • January 14, 2025
Even the most radical changes to newly-built homes won’t change much about America’s housing situation until decades from now. That’s because the vast majority of tomorrow’s housing was built…yesterday.
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