By Martin Di Caro (Guest Contributor) • November 1, 2019
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says she is committed to eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2024, the District’s goal under the Vision Zero initiative it adopted in 2015. Yet for more than three years her administration has quietly stalled an important safety project, a protected bikeway on 9th Street NW, and refused to give the public straight answers about why.
We can learn a lot from Vienna, Austria, one of the world’s most livable cities. Minnesota has a long game to add more dense zoning. Chicago’s in a losing battle with Planned Manufacturing Districts.
Since it was created for white families during WWII, public housing has been used as a tool to segregate cities, and whites in power continued to use it for this purpose as more black residents moved in over the following decades. A recent map project from the historians at PrologueDC illustrates the ways public housing has been manipulated.
Amtrak’s quest to grow access to high-speed rail service will likely take billions of dollars worth of investment to update train tracks and tunnels that were never intended for high-speed rail service in the first place. (Luz Lazo / Post)
An uptick in the supply of housing means homes and condos in the region aren’t selling as quickly as they used to. Most of the growth in supply is due to new construction, but so far prices aren’t going down due to the cost of new construction. (Nena Perry-Brown / UrbanTurf)
Just because there are no official bike routes to National Airport doesn’t mean cycling isn’t a great way to get there. For travelers with only a backpack’s worth of luggage, biking to National Airport can be fast, convenient, and stress-free. (Edward Russell / The Points Guy)
Restrictions on short-term rentals in DC just went into effect, and some of the District’s Airbnb hosts say they’re still in the dark about what the new law means for them and what they should do about new requirements like applying for licenses. (Robert McCartney / Post)
The District banned a California-based hotel company from renting out apartments after the company illegally converted rent-controlled units into short-term residential units. (Natalie Delgadillo / DCist)
The Old Soldiers’ Home in Northwest DC will lease 80 acres to outside developers to generate revenue for the facility. The planned redevelopment will include residential units as well as 20 acres of green space that will be open to the public. (Martin Austermuhle / WAMU)
Alexandra Petri pens a terrific takedown of the New York Times’ tired stereotypes of DC (transients, no fun, etc), which most recently appeared in an article about the World Series. (Alexandra Petri / Post)
