By David Alpert (Executive Director) • August 22, 2019
15th Street is DC’s first protected bikeway, and it gets heavy use. It may be time to widen it to four lanes, two in each direction, for bikes, e-bikes, scooters, and more.
By Alex Holt (Maryland Correspondent) • August 22, 2019
Pennsylvation Station is Baltimore’s main transit hub, which feeds Amtrak, MARC, local light rail, and bus lines into the city and the region. Despite its importance, the station is awkwardly situated and not very well connected with the rest of the city.
Mayor Murial Bowser recently announced that a three-mile section of Georgia Avenue will be closed to automobile traffic for several hours in October for the District’s inaugural Open Streets event. Open Streets is a worldwide program that temporarily pedestrianizes streets.
America’s cities are growing at different rates.When looking at population and job growth, some of the ones that are doing better (and the ones that are doing worse) may surprise you. (Richard Florida / CityLab)
After Peter Gorman took a year-long bike trip across the country he came back home and started making minimalist maps of city intersections. What do his maps of DC’s streets say about the District’s layout? (Gaspard Le Dem / DCist)
You may be wondering why there is a message in braille on some e-scooters. It turns out it’s for contacting companies when blind people come across the scooters blocking a path. (Luz Lazo / Post)
Lyft just announced that it is raising its prices on scooters from $0.15 per minute to $0.24 per minute. Two months ago, Jump also raised its prices up to $0.25 per minute from $0.15 per minute. Lyft says that fleet limits and remaining competitive in the market prompted the price hike. (Yasna Khademian / DCist)
Now that 400 mopeds are available by app in DC, WAMU took them for a ride to help you figure out how to safely use them. One piece of advice? Watch for shadows, which can obscure potholes and other obstacles. (Jordan Pascale / WAMU)
Housing prices and sales continue to climb in the 16th Street Heights neighborhood in DC. The median sales price of a home in the area was $887,500, up 19%, from the previous year. (UrbanTurf)
