Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Washington DC

Solo Driving Drops in DC as Transit and Biking Soar

By Tanya Snyder | May 16, 2013 | No Comments

We’ve been writing a lot this week about the national shift away from car travel and toward transit, biking, and walking. Yesterday, Washington area officials released new data that indicates the DC region is at the forefront of that trend. The region added half a million new workers between 2000 and 2011, according to a […]

After Years of Unchecked Sprawl, Employment Inches Closer to the City

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 19, 2013 | 1 Comment

To hear some urbanists talk, you’d think the outer suburbs have been abandoned wholesale, lawn-mowers still running with no one to drive them, picket fences left open in the owners’ haste to beat it to the city. A new Brookings report puts the re-urbanization of America in perspective. During the economic crisis, from 2007 to […]

AAA Still Up to Its Old Tricks Fighting Progressive Transport Policy

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 6, 2013 | 6 Comments

A representative of the American Automobile Association was a keynote speaker at this week’s National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C., the annual gathering of bicycle advocates. There the organization debuted a heartwarming new video reminding drivers to share the road with cyclists. Meanwhile, also in D.C., AAA representatives are fighting a series of smart parking […]

Making Your City More Walkable? That’s Not “Zoning”

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 20, 2013 | 9 Comments

In last week’s Washington Post, Roger K. Lewis, an architect and professor at the University of Maryland, wrote an intriguing column suggesting that it’s time for a big rethink of the concept of zoning, which he says is a relic of the early 20th century: Zoning conventions are no longer conventional. Land-use regulation is still needed, but […]

TTI Urban Mobility Report Bungles Congestion Analysis Yet Again

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 5, 2013 | 7 Comments

At the risk of repeating ourselves: The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) got it wrong again. Their 2012 Urban Mobility Report (using 2011 data) just came out [PDF]. Like every year, they tout their “improved methodology,” but the authors still haven’t made the changes that would make their congestion rankings meaningful in the real world. Not only that, […]

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