On Monday morning, District Department of Transportation Director Gabe Klein sat at a dais at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments boardroom, next to the Dutch ambassador and other Netherlandish dignitaries. They were there to talk about how their country makes it easy to bicycle, before mobile workshops that would assess D.C.’s bike friendliness.
Although the [...]
Most of the time, I ride my bike to City Paper's Adams Morgan office from my house in Petworth. Last night, though, I left my bike here to go see a former colleague read at Politics and Prose. In the past, that would have meant I had to take Metro or walk to work this [...]
If you didn't already have enough of DDOT director Gabe Klein in your life–and let's face it, most people don't, except perhaps George Hawkins–get your fill over at the agency's YouTube channel, which recently uploaded video of him touring streetscape work on Pennsylvania Avenue SE. Why is a bureaucrat so much better than selling the [...]
The Department of Real Estate Services tells me that Councilmember Marion Barry has dropped his disapproval resolution on the District Department of Transportation's move to 55 M Street SE, which momentarily put the whole thing in limbo. That means the move can go forward as planned, without having to wait through another 35-day review period until [...]
If you haven't gotten a chance to see D.C.'s first contra-flow bike lane, well it should look a little something like this:
The lane has been installed on 15th Street between U St. and Massachusetts Ave. in Northwest. The southward bike lane is separated from traffic by an 8-foot parking lane.
Missed all the streetcar meetings? Got a gripe about the new 15th Street bike lane? Wonderin' when you can get some of that DDOT grant money next year?
Well, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) Director Gabe Klein will take questions from an online audience during a live chat this Friday, November 20, 2009, at 12:30 [...]
