Apologies for the budget-coverage heavy week–there are just so many interesting and important things to share!
One of the faults of those who come to the Council during budget season demanding that their funding be restored or increased is a failure to point out where to make up the difference. Well, here's something that should be [...]

Livability is one of those oft-used phrases that seems to exist primarily in the context of press releases. But DDOT’s latest study initiative, under the Livability Program, is trying to bring it to, well, real life.
Tuesday saw residents of Wards 7 and 8 meeting in the Anacostia Library to discuss transit-specific improvements they’d like to see [...]

A bus-car altercation about half an hour ago in Dupont Circle. Slate thinks they're great, but I still think roundabouts are death traps.

Here over at Housing Complex, we don’t usually report on the affairs of the University of Maryland, College Park. There's not much need, as the university exists in its own world. Though downtown DC is only nine miles away, the campus metro stop is a mile and a half down Campus Drive from [...]

Automobiles: Much more of a Virginia thing.
So much for that windows-down, open-road, wind-blowing-in-your-hair kind of feeling.
People in D.C. are increasingly less interested in owning cars. The Washington Business Journal is reporting "a sharp 5.8 percent decline in registered cars in D.C. since 2005...even as population and household income have gone up." Perhaps, residents are [...]