We unfortunately forgot to take a photo, but wanted to express gratitude to Brianne K. Nadeau for meeting with families yesterday. Thank you for supporting upholding Schools First in Budgeting and working towards ensuring DC is #FullyFundingPublicSchools . cc Phil Mendelson

When I worked at USDOT, I used to regularly have meetings with school districts that built their schools like this only to realize they couldn't possibly afford to bus their students to their new school.

I adore , but he is going to a tough franchise. But even he isn't enough to get me to forking Landover for a game.

Washington Commanders take LSU’s Jayden Daniels with No. 2 pick
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Honored to speak at CPEX’s Louisiana Smart Growth Summit about how and why to do street safety demonstration and tactical urbanism projects with Mayor White from City of Abbeville and Michelle Reynolds from Move Bunkie Forward who have been doing them in their hometowns

1/🧵 Let's talk about why correctly identifying the problem matters for successful policy development.

Like many cities, Toledo in the 1950s was suffering from pretty heavy out-migration and downtown businesses were feeling the pinch.

So what was the central problem? Well...

It's pretty simple: Cities that want more people to bike shouldn't force cyclists to ride alongside fast cars.

'Substantial speed differentials between bikes and motor vehicles are a barrier to bike riding.'

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i can't believe that sesame street told me that adulthood would be hanging out with my neighbors in diverse, walkable communities, but it turned out to be 14-hour email jobs to pay for an apartment in increasingly gentrified, car-centric cities

Induced demand is great if you like higher taxes, more congestion & longer trips. Our highway program causes decentralized land use by displacing people/business and prohibiting infill.

We don't believe in stovepipes of excellence Smart Growth America. Transpo and land use interact.

Great job opening at SSTI!
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Unfortunately he ducked the question. Secretary Pete Buttigieg went right into fixing past damage. It isn't his fault, but the IIJA fully allows projects that cause the same damage this project is fixing. It is this administration's fault that they pretend that isn't true.

Not if you slow them down. PEOPLE might crash (we don't have AVs yet) but it isn't deadly at 20 mph. The subtext is we can't seek to slow travel by a fraction even if it doesn't actually save time and it kills people.

What they mean is: we would really like people of all ages to bike in unsafe conditions and not get hurt.

I'd like great city services without paying taxes. I'm sure those same leaders would see my wish as equally reasonable to theirs.

Good research here. Bottom line: environmental benefits from e-scooters are real but have been overstated. And, e-scooters are not unsafe, streets in US cities are unsafe. grist.org/transportation…

“If we can’t even track our emissions from transportation, we certainly can’t do anything about it. What are 53 members of the Senate so afraid that the public might learn?” Beth Osborne

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I lived here as a kid in the new, sprawly middle. Look at how inefficient it is. How can anyone look at that and think that will be an effective roadway system? And it is the U.S. standard.

'The mayor supports preserving and or improving existing mobility options without reducing the number of traffic lanes or lane widths.'

This is the opposite of Complete Streets or Vision Zero. When people ask why they don't work it is because of this.
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My daughter just had a formative experience in the school musical at School Without Walls. Now the drama program is on the chopping block along with part of the foreign language program. Brianne K. Nadeau is right. We can't let that happen if we care about DC's future.

All former staff for Senator Tom Carper will understand when I say, I just sprinted across my office to get my birthday call. 😊🥳

Wrote about D.C.’s remarkable post-Covid transit recovery, and what other cities can learn from its experiment. (The short version is: Don’t fear deficits! Transit is a public service, and the better it is, the more people will use it.) vox.com/cities-and-urb…

DC has now seen a faster transit recovery than any other major metro area with a comparable public transportation network.
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