The Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices “plays an oversized role in determining how our streets look, feel and function.” My experience on the ANC 6A TPS Committee has too often included @ddotdc.bsky.social frustrating adherence to this manual in lieu of common sense safety solutions.

Union Market and H Street well represented!

This week, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) released an updated version of its Urban Bikeway Design Guide. Great to see some lessons in here that DDOT has already adopted, as well as more ideas as we continues to build out bike lanes in our neighborhoods!

PSA: If your dog poops in the snow on your walk, you can still pick it up.

Hey, this is neat: DDOT has a program called "Tactical To Permanent" and its website tracks all of their quick build safety improvements -- usually stuff like putting up a bunch of bollards to narrow a street or harden a turn or add a bulb out to an intersection.

tactical2permanent.ddot.dc.gov

I feel privileged to live in a city whose leaders have prioritized multimodal transit. I am significantly happier with my 20-min, 4-mi bike commute today than I was with my 45-min, 4½-mi drive a decade ago. This doesn’t need to be a privilege, but it requires our society to reassess our priorities.

Not sure which DC drivers need to hear this, but when in the far left lane at a stoplight you decide you need to turn right across two lanes of traffic, it’s okay to continue down the next block to perform that maneuver.

A Christmas miracle? Early Saturday morning, the Senate unanimously approved a bill giving D.C. expanded control over much of the aging and abandoned RFK stadium site.

A great primer on the DCPS lottery system from @maustermuhle.bsky.social x @51st.news. The lottery opens on December 16th.

"The difficulty with the question 'Where will I park?' isn’t that it is trivial, but that answering it requires relearning a lost conception of what, precisely, a city is." ICYMI @ad-mastro.bsky.social reviews @henrygrabar.bsky.social's "Paved Paradise": plus.thebulwark.com/p/huge-effec...

This part of the Strand in London used to be a congested road for cars. Now it’s a magnetic place for people.

Good trade.

It can feel hard to muster the vision and leadership needed for smart urban change. But it pays off with a better city. Gorgeous pic by @livinglondonhis.

City commuter bikes need shocks. The gravel paths on the National Mall are more comfortable to ride than many of DC’s streets and even some of the bicycle tracks (looking at you, Maine Ave). 🚴🏻‍♂️

10/10. Would recommend.

The great migration here this week brought to mind a quote by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social from her Wired interview over the summer: “People have to use Big Tech because you can’t participate in society without it, but that’s not winning users. That’s coercion.” Welcome to a better way.

EVs and PHEVs count will need to account for 43% of new cars registered by 2027, increasing every year until 100% by 2035. 2027 is not that far off. With EVs accounting for <2% of new cars registered in DC in 2022, we have a long way to go in under four years… and so does DC’s EV infrastructure.

Vanmoof’s bankruptcy earlier this year forced me to learn how to maintain my S3 myself with parts I could still find, which is surely a valuable skill, but I’m also glad to see that I may no longer need to!

“In sum, students who spend more time staring at their phone do worse in school, distract other students around them, and feel worse about their life.”