Scores of people showed up to a town hall meeting in Silver Spring, MD to discuss what has been done since the Montgomery County Council passed a 2017 climate emergency resolution with goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% in 2027 and 100% by 2035. (Glynis Kazanjian / bet)
The Montgomery County Planning Board decided to make no changes to the intersection of the Capital Crescent Trail at Little Falls Parkway, reversing an earlier decision to end the road diet on Little Falls Parkway. TIP: Neil Braunstein (Caitlynn Peetz / Bethesda Beat)
The Alexandria City Council voted on Saturday to convert some traffic lanes on Seminary Road to bikeways. The measure attracted controversy from both opponents and supporters who debated the proposal for over a year. (Patricia Sullivan / Post)
While employees of the Express were not a part of the same union as their counterparts at the Washington Post, they were at least offered a severance package. The hawkers for the Express, however, weren’t so lucky. (Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian)
An organization called Shut Down DC will use protesters to block major roadways in the District on September 23 to raise awareness for climate change. The group says that public transit or emergency vehicles will be allowed through, although that message was not communicated at the group’s practice run last Wednesday. (Jane Recker / Washingtonian)
The expansion of Arlington National Cemetery will engulf a stretch of Southgate Road that’s friendly to cyclists and replace it with a trail. Advocates have been pushing for improvements to the trail to better accommodate cyclists, but the Army has been resistant. (The Wash Cycle)
While the percentage of housing inventory in the District has dropped since August, so has the median sale price after exceeding $600,000 for the first time back in July. Whether this decline continues into the fall remains to be seen. (UrbanTurf)
Join the Applied Planning Intelligence unit in Metro’s Planning Office – a team delivering complex data analysis to inform executive decision-making and improve Metro’s performance for customers. They are looking for candidates with critical thinking, data science, and research skills; experience working with transportation data and querying SQL databases; and a passion for improving public transit service for riders. Find more jobs, and learn how to submit your own, at ggwash.org/jobs. (WMATA)
