People have been voicing anger over street safety across DC in recent weeks. After one resident's child was hit by a driver in an intersection near their home, he took it upon himself to study how many dangerous drivers were passing through.
Another way to get people fired up: get them talking about Washington housing prices. With pandemic work life shifts, people have raised office-to-residential conversions as one solution — but Mike English argues, it can't be the only solution we try.
Down in Virginia, Wyatt Gordon writes about minimum parking requirements, and what it would mean to get rid of them.
Finally, induced demand means that a new highway construction project is less likely to simply reduce traffic than it is to create more car trips. A new calculator does the math.
By John Means (Guest Contributor) • October 26, 2021
Nathan Ballard-Means asks his father almost every day to “promise“ that he won’t get hit by a car again after a driver in an SUV hit the 4-year-old last month. Since that time, his father has tried to better understand how the District can create safer streets across all wards.
By Mike English (Guest Contributor) • October 26, 2021
Office to residential conversions are sometimes treated as a panacea, and a reason not to try any of the other many tools we need to use to solve our region’s housing shortage.
