Thursday, January 11, 2018
Long Bridge Bicycle and Pedestrian Connection Needs Your Support
FABB is encouraging everyone to visit this WABA website to speak up in support of improving plans for a new biking and walking trail.
DC's Department of Transportation is making plans to upgrade the rail bridge between DC's SW Waterfront and Crystal City and is considering adding a biking and walking trail alongside it. Unfortunately, the current trail designs only go from the Mount Vernon Trail to Hains Point.
A better plan would extend the trail across the George Washington Parkway to Arlington County’s Long Bridge Park. At the other end, extending the trail to Maine Avenue would avoid sending users through an indirect and congested route across the Washington Channel. The WABA website has a few additional suggestions to improve the design that you can include in note.
Labels: ddot, long bridge, mount vernon trail, waba
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Bicycle safety PSAs from ddot and WABA
The Wash Cycle noted that in a story prompted by the death of Constance Holden WTOP featured two bicycle safety public service announcements produced by ddot and WABA. The first is on avoiding a right hook:Wednesday, February 24, 2010
DC expands bike transportation while Fairfax cuts
While Fairfax Supervisor Cook says that a bicycle is not a transportation device and the county cuts bike program funding, DC has a more enlightened approach. According to the Post article Transportation chief says bikes, buses are way to go in D.C., Gabe Klein, the Director of the DC Department of Transportation,is expanding the city's red, dollar-a-ride Circulator bus system beyond tourist destinations and into more neighborhoods. He's promoting car sharing and, with Tregoning's office, said he hopes to build on a bike-sharing pilot program with 1,000 new bicycles and 100 stations.
"There's a lot of things that go into making a city an attractive place to live," Klein said. "You have schools, public safety and high-quality transportation. People are realizing that what we had in our old cities is actually more sustainable than what we have now."
In the case of DC, high-quality transportation includes bikes."There's a lot of things that go into making a city an attractive place to live," Klein said. "You have schools, public safety and high-quality transportation. People are realizing that what we had in our old cities is actually more sustainable than what we have now."
Labels: ddot, gabe klein, smartbike
