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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

1 year

There’s no reason DC can’t look like this

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

I shit you not, I’m down 1.5 belt loops and have only been in Europe for 2.5 weeks. Legalizing walkable communities would go so far in combating our obesity epidemic.

CBS News

@CBSNews

2 years

Children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, including with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13, according to new guidelines released Monday.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

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America needs more vacation trains

Hayden

@the_transit_guy

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What's an unlikely train route under 250 miles that you think would actually perform very well?

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2 years

Being at my parents suburban house means I, a 27 year old, can’t leave the house because my parents are using the two cars. All I want to do is go to the gym. Car dependency is the opposite of independence and freedom.

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@DCUrbanist

1 year

Now *this* is what a bike lane should look like

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@DCUrbanist

3 months

My salary in Frankfurt is 60% of what it was in DC, but my rent is 40% of what it was and I only spend 25€/month on unlimited local & regional transit anywhere in the country. Abundant housing and car-free lifestyles would make Americans astronomically wealthier.

Mark R. Brown, AICP

@CompletedStreet

3 months

American salaries are higher than other countries, but unfortunately a lot of that goes into cars.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

It’s actually pretty mind boggling that the same plot of land that houses a single McDonald’s can become 805 homes.

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@DCUrbanist

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Autumn Florek

@PlanningAutumn

1 year

What's the urbanist equivalent of Barbie-Oppenheimer?

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

9 months

If American trains could go this fast, you could go from DC to Boston in 2.5 hours

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@DCUrbanist

19 days

Honestly one of the best, simplest quality of life things about living in Europe is that all the food in the grocery store has a healthiness rating. It’s just so simple and easy

Hunter📈🌈📊

@StatisticUrban

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Subsidize healthy food, tax junk food.

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

*Cries in WMATA*

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@DCUrbanist

5 months

The quality of life in Europe is honestly so much higher than the US

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@DCUrbanist

19 days

@audacityofagay I mean, by that logic, wouldn’t that also be true of the nutrition facts and labels? This is just a summary of that information. Do you think the nutrition facts and ingredients lists also cause disordered eating?

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2 years

As an American, it is fucking *mind boggling* how some Europeans can both have a dense, walkable city/village and empty country side within a 10 minute bike ride of their home. How can anyone think our suburban sprawl is better than this? Why do we make this illegal here?

Coby

@Cobylefko

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Town & Country, no sprawl. Just as it should be!

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

My dad just got a $200 ticket for driving 49mph in a 35mph zone in New York Avenue. This is not what a 35mph road should look like. This looks and feels more like an interstate than a 35mph road, and no one should be surprised when drivers treat it as such.

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@DCUrbanist

1 year

This is how driving should work. No one should drive *through* a city to get somewhere. Driving should have long, roundabout options like the beltway while transit offers a faster, more direct path. This way, only people who really need their cars would be the ones driving.

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@DCUrbanist

1 year

Honestly, the best part of this whole thing is that the “parking all the way around the corner” is half the distance as the middle of a Home Depot parking lot

DCSuperSid

@DCSuperSid

1 year

Repost from @MotenSpeaks discussing the detrimental effects bike lanes are having on culture and business in some parts of the city. I agree 100% with his commentary. #dontmutedc

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

8 months

This is extremely effective at highlighting just how much on-street parking degrades urban environments

Simon Battisti

@SimonBattisti

2 years

We think we’ve struck a good balance in our approach to school streets in #Tirana . This project was fast, inexpensive, it works, and it is loved. Twelve more like this in 2023, on track for every school in the city by 2027. @Qendra_M @punetorettirane @CityOfTirana

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1 year

Imagine bragging about how you’re so lazy you won’t walk more than a block from a parking space to your destination lmao

DCSuperSid

@DCSuperSid

1 year

Repost from @MotenSpeaks discussing the detrimental effects bike lanes are having on culture and business in some parts of the city. I agree 100% with his commentary. #dontmutedc

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

Imagine how beautiful 14th St could be with this approach

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

9 months

I love how all the anti-train people completely discount the time to 1) travel to the airport 2) get to the airport an hour early 3) virtually unlimited baggage allowance 4) baggage claim, if appropriate 5) travel from the airport to destination city

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

@bmariner @El_Guatqui In the vast majority of America, the only land use pattern legally allowed to be built is car-dependent sprawl. Most people can’t walk to school, work, stores, or anything else so they drive everywhere. Even if they wanted to walk, pedestrian infrastructure is usually unsafe.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

WHY DO WE SPEND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO SEND METRO TO EMPTY FIELDS IN TBE MIDDLE OF FUCKING NOWHERE?!?!? ALL WE ARE ASKING FOR IS FIVE MINUTE HEADWAYS WHERE PEOPLE ACTUALLY EXIST!!!!

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

13 days

This is peak America car brain Proudly broadcasting yourself breaking the law because you’re in a car and therefore laws don’t apply to you…only to be driving on a suspended license.

Tit’s Omnimedia Empire (candidate for mayor)

@Tweetorelli

13 days

Candidate for Boston City Council @VitaleforBoston insists on parking in a bike lane, gets ticketed, and has her driving privileges removed.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

9 months

This is EXACTLY why user fees would be the most effective way of changing people’s mode choice. Congestion pricing in DC would make the city so much more livable.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

Strong disagree here. A one story building on the most popular, expensive street in the city is a policy failure, especially given our housing crisis. This building should have hundreds of units of housing on top of it.

U Street Buzz

@UStreetBuzz

2 years

We're lucky not just to have @LeDiplomateDC but also that the building wasn't razed and a new 10-story one put there. If you remember boarded up "Shirt Laundry" years it wouldn't have been shocking had they just leveled the whole thing and started over. I'm glad they didn't.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

3 years

Look at how much space Rochester gets back by removing a highway. That’s easily a full city block. Imagine the communities we could build if we removed 295, 395, and 695

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

Hate on @wmata as much as you want, but the new GM’s transparency (and actual use of the system) is truly A+ and such a breath of fresh air

Randy Clarke

@wmataGM

2 years

Sorry for this morning’s service impacts everyone. I’ve been stuck on a train as well. Talking w/ customer Antione who is also impacted. Earlier reports or a seat on fire on a train at Eastern Market. We are moving. We will update w/ more info after an investigation occurs.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

But how will customers get to businesses with no parking?!?

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

11 months

Is the fact that there’s no train between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh the biggest embarrassment in all of American rail?

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

Wait, our current infrastructure can handle DC↔️Boston in 4 hours and we just willfully don’t do that? What the actual fuck? I’d take the train instead of flying in a heartbeat if this were a thing.

Jake Gotta

@jake_gotta

2 years

Five stops, 150MPH, 4 hours to go from DC to Boston, on existing tracks & infrastructure We should have 12 trains a day

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

This is what 15th St NW should look like

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

Honestly, Biden should use the Defense Production Act to modernize our rail infrastructure. Imagine a world in which we go to war with China and can’t move troops or weapons efficiently because our rail looks like this.

dana

@dana916

2 years

🇺🇸 It is quite honestly a miracle any time a train carrying something remotely dangerous makes it through Ohio unscathed.... thearcangel

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

This, but the Rock Creek Parkway around the Kennedy Center

Emmanuel

@EmmanuelSPV

2 years

Paris 2015 vs Paris 2022 Avant, Voie express Georges Pompidou Après, Parc Rives de Seine

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

I know we talk a lot about Amsterdam in the urbanist twittersphere, but Haarlem is exactly what every American small city and suburb should model itself off.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

3 months

Saving this for any time a business says no one will be able to access their store if the street is closed to cars.

Jonathan Berk

@berkie1

3 months

Boston moved over 1 million people in & out of town for the @celtics Parade with most of Downtown & Back Bay closed to cars. 🏀 🎉 🎥 @OnlyInBOS

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

Having water back in the canal makes such a difference. This must be the closest thing we have to the Netherlands in America

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

A parking lot becoming 550 homes? You absolutely love to see it.

UrbanTurf

@UrbanTurf_DC

2 years

550 Units? Residential + Hotel? Renderings Show Possibilities For a Mt. Vernon Triangle Parking Lot.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

1 year

“No one swims across the river to commute to work. So why does the city want to build a bridge, our columnist wonders”

Washington Business Journal

@WBJonline

1 year

Only 0.7% of commuters cycle to work in the region, data show. So why is DDOT replacing car lanes with traffic lanes on Connecticut Avenue, our columnist wonders.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

15th has 5 lanes for cars and this is the sidewalk

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

1 year

$2,000 for killing a human being. What a disgrace.

Truck driver who fatally struck diplomat on bike in Maryland fined $2,000

Sarah Langenkamp was killed while riding her bike just outside Washington after she returned from a posting in Ukraine.

www.washingtonpost.com

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

I’ve officially reached “taking videos of basic infrastructure while on vacation.” Just look at how this beautiful @WorldBollard filters traffic in Lisbon though

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

This is what M St should look like

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

My dream for Washington DC is for it to be filled with streets like this (Vienna)

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

11 months

This is what it should be like to be in a bus on Florida Ave

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

11 months

How to significantly increase bus transit ridership. In 5 seconds. Dedicated bus lanes. Via @Daniela17C #BRT #Bogota

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

Rockville has to be up there for DC’s ugliest, most depressing suburb, no?

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

Without a doubt the nicest sidewalk in DC!

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

People hate on Navy Yard and its “luxury one bedrooms”, but all that housing supply has made it one of the most affordable neighborhoods in DC.

UrbanTurf

@UrbanTurf_DC

2 years

The Rising Cost of a One-Bedroom Rental Around the DC Area.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 days

Hey guys, maybe when there’s a story about busses, you should talk to people who ride the bus! The level of priority and privilege America gives to drivers is crazy

Homa Bash

@HomaBashNews

3 days

Have you been hit with a $100 bus-camera ticket in D.C. recently? More than 145,000 citations issued over the last 9 months.. totaling nearly $15 million in fines. Maryland drivers lead the way, then DC, VA, and all over. Here's what some drivers we spoke with had to say:

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@DCUrbanist

1 year

Bus riders should be treated like royalty in our transportation system. They don’t cause traffic. They don’t cause pollution. They don’t cause violence. Their riding the bus makes life better for *everyone else* outside the bus, and we should treat them appropriately.

Randy Clarke

@wmataGM

1 year

The better buses moves the more people use the bus which means the more everyone who doesn’t ride the bus benefits. It’s one integrated mobility system so everyone that doesn’t ride transit should support getting as many other people as possible to ride transit. Geometry. #wmata

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

A close friend just texted me: “Found a spot in DuPont (17th and R NW) for $950 + $150 utilities avg. / month. Pros: -Great location Cons: -7 other roommates” You should not need SEVEN FUCKING ROOMMATES to affordable live in Dupont. Build. More. Fucking. Housing.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

Imagine how much money the DC urbanism twittersphere would make if the council did this. Just bike up and down 14th and make $1k/hr

David Zipper

@DavidZipper

2 years

Well, this is interesting: In NYC, a new bill would invite residents to submit photos of cars blocking bike lanes, schools, and sidewalks -- and then receive 25% of each $175 ticket.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

Im like 80% sure someone could win the mayoral race simply by promising Open Streets every weekend. Everyone here is so happy.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

1 year

This is such a basic thing that would drastically improve quality of life for everyone outside a car.

Andy Boenau

@Boenau

1 year

Most places outlaw parking right up at a stop sign or stop light. So you might as well take advantage of those laws by installing bumpouts. Makes it much easier to see around corners ("daylighting").

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

4 months

Lmao even fucking Houston did this before DC

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

4 months

NEW: 7 blocks in downtown Houston are going to be permanently transformed into a people-place and pedestrian promenade. From Rusk Street to Allen’s Landing Park. No trial or pilot. Not seasonal. Permanent. If Houston can do it, what’s your city’s excuse?

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

This could be 14th St

Daniel Moser

@_dmoser

2 years

“Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.” — Jan Gehl

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2 years

Further proof that one of Metro’s biggest operational challenges is needing to cover so much space of unpopulated emptiness in the suburbs. Sprawl makes our transportation more expensive and worse.

Omari Hardy

@OmariJHardy

2 years

This is what Paris's municipal subway system would look in Washington DC. Credit: @pushtheneedle who makes these amazing maps!

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

3 years

This could so easily be 17th St NW

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett

@modacitylife

3 years

What was once a place for cars is now a place for people. Before the pandemic, Rotterdam’s Witte de Withstraat was a car-choked thoroughfare. Today, cars are banned, and terraces have taken the place of on-street parking spaces; part of a program that converted 1,000+ citywide.

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

The land use allocation in the busiest commercial corridor in DC is beyond embarrassing

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@DCUrbanist

9 months

This could be M St at Christmas time

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@DCUrbanist

3 years

Sorry for the repetitive “cities without cars are so much better” pictures the past few days, but, I mean, come on. Look at how nice this is.

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@DCUrbanist

4 months

The difference between a society built for cars and a society built for people is shocking.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett

@modacitylife

5 months

“Our biggest discovery was the myriad benefits that come with far fewer automobiles. Even with high expectations, Delft was nothing short of a revelation; each day discovering the joys of being in a city that treated cars as guests rather than guests of honor.” - Curbing Traffic

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

@PublicEmNumber1 I agree with you, and this was not meant to be a complaint about my dads punishment. It was meant to be an example of how road design affects how fast people drive, and DDOT should redesign the roads so that people drive slower.

Design Speed | National Association of City Transportation Officials

Speed plays a critical role in crashes and the severity of their outcomes. Traditional street design was grounded in highway design principles that forgive driver error and accommodate higher speeds.

nacto.org

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

2 years

Small, car-free, mixed use streets & plazas would enable a level of community building we don’t currently have in DC. This could, and should, be common through DC. Imagine T St NW as a plaza like this.

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@DCUrbanist

10 months

For some reason, I don’t think pedestrians listening to music while they walk is the cause for a spike in pedestrian deaths

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@johnvoelcker

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

Look at that form. Taking the lane like an absolute pro. 10/10 execution. But if @EBJunkies is annoyed by this, he should reach out to his ANC and support more bike lanes so cyclists don’t need to share lanes with motorists!

OG EB Eric Bickel

@EBJunkies

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This maniac is riding his bike like 5 mph uphill on Connecticut Avenue in the middle lane. Not a care in the world. My mind is blown.

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

Look at this carnage, and people will still say bikes and scooters are the dangers on our roads. We need to end car supremacy to make our cities and towns safer.

DC Fire and EMS Department (DCFD)

@dcfireems

2 years

Update crash with entrapment 3000 block Connecticut Ave NW. All patients extricated. Transporting 7 patients to various hospitals, 3 with life threatening injuries. #DCsBravest

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DC Urbanist

@DCUrbanist

4 months

It’s really disappointing how DC forces all the change into two or three neighborhoods and refuses to legalize any more housing in the richest, whitest, most segregated parts of the city.

Yonah Freemark

@yfreemark

4 months

DC is 96% of the way to meeting its housing production goal: 36,000 new housing units added 2019–2025. That's been driven by housing production in the Navy Yard, SW Waterfront, & downtown.

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

Lmao, if someone can’t avoid stationary concrete then they probably aren’t qualified to operate a multi-ton motor vehicle

PoPville

@PoPville

2 years

"PSA: These vehicular death traps have been installed on every block of 9th Street NW between H and E Streets NW."

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@DCUrbanist

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Like honestly at what point do American city leaders say enough is enough? This is fucking ridiculous

Jeffrey Goldberg

@JeffreyGoldberg

17 days

Dramatic morning at the Whole Foods in Tenleytown DC. One police officer I interviewed said, laconically, ‘Brakes and gas are very different pedals.’ No one was hurt, so far as I can tell.

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VDOT spends billions on: ❌ Metro ❌ VRE ❌ Regional rail ❌ Cycling infrastructure ✅ Climate destroying bridge that will do nothing to reduce traffic.

VDOT

@VaDOT

10 months

Did you hear the news, Virginia? I-95 is expanding to 12 lanes over the Rappahannock River in #Fredericksburg this week!

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2 years

I think the thing that baffles me the most as a DC resident is how Jose Andres is objectively an absolutely incredible person that helps countless people all over the world while simultaneously lobbying to not pay DC restaurant workers the minimum wage.

Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳

@chefjoseandres

2 years

. @WCKitchen teams getting a chartered plane loaded and ready to move west to communities affected by the remnants of typhoon Merbok….we will help every community in need….! #ChefsForAlaska

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1 year

The cars highlighted yellow are carrying ~50% the capacity of students of the school bus.

About Here

@aboutherevideos

1 year

This is the traffic to drop-off students at a middle school in Metro Vancouver. New video about this issue tomorrow.

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3 years

I have a tongue in cheek question: if an unhoused person paid the $50 for an RPP, could they just set up their tent in a parking space for the year? Those spaces are public land being used for private use anyways. Or is that only reserved for those wealthy enough to own a car?

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

This is an embarrassment

Frédéric Arnould

@FredericArnould

2 years

Très efficace le métro de Washington🤦🏻‍♂️ @wmata

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

Bike lanes are now sponsors of terrorism, apparently.

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

Modern pickup trucks are too big for urban environments and should require a commercial operating license.

DC Police Department

@DCPoliceDept

2 years

Third District Commander James Boteler provides an update on the 4-year-old struck by a vehicle in the 1200 Block of V St, NW

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

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No, NYT, you do not need to even pretend that "mass deportations" is an affordable housing strategy from Trump. FFS.

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2 years

Without a doubt the biggest car-free success story in DC

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This is EXACTLY how I feel coming back to the US after ~14 months away. Why was every street in Seattle six lanes wide? Why is the Wharf the only pedestrian-friendly place in DC? WHY IS IT JUST CARS CARS CARS EVERYWHERE? It makes life so much worse.

Mike Eliason

@holz_bau

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after living and working abroad, it became quite obvious why US cities and suburbs are failing - literally every square inch is given over to dangerous, speeding cars over affordability, climate action, safe streets, public health, and walkability

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@DCUrbanist

3 months

Imagine this for 15th St NW

Emmanuel

@EmmanuelSPV

3 months

Avant / Après Rue Mouton-Duvernet dans le 14ème arrondissement de Paris. Une ancienne rue parking entre deux parcs a été piétonnisée et végétalisée, pour faire une continuité entre les deux parcs.

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@sam_d_1995 @winsjuliet @NYCMayor @GovKathyHochul Does also she think that no one is allowed to drive on the NJ Turnpike because there are tolls there?

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1 year

The most satisfying car into building I’ve ever seen. 10/10, absolute perfection.

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

Legalize small streets and smaller gin bars

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1 year

We don’t need more conversations. We know what works. It works all over the world. Narrower roads, fewer lanes, fewer cars, more bikes, more buses. Traffic calming and safe infrastructure works. You just have to tell DDOT to prioritize safety over speed and “level of service”

Christina Henderson

@chenderson

1 year

I think we need to have an honest conversation as a community about what it will really take to get to Vision Zero. I don’t want people to just pay fines. I want them to change behavior. But any enforcement proposal beyond booting keeps getting knocked down.

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

DC should have this.

Yonah Freemark

@yfreemark

2 years

One of the most exciting bills in CA: SB 457. The bill would give households tax credits for *not* having cars. A two-adult household with no cars would get a $5,000 tax credit. If they had one car, they’d get $2,500. Two cars, $0.

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

If DC legalized Barcelona's housing density everywhere, we could fit the entirety of DC's population in roughly this area. If you want to prevent displacement throughout the District, legalizing that density is how you accomplish that goal.

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

The fact that merely wanting to legalize this in Washington DC is seen as radical is so depressing. Imagine 17th St, 18th St, or M St looking like Utrecht. (h/t @modacitylife )

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@DCUrbanist

23 days

Once upon a time, I lived in Navy Yard and a friend lived in Adams Morgan. The late night summertime rides home from their house - all downhill, warm air, across the Mall with the illuminated monuments - are some of my favorite DC memories

Doug Allen

@DFRSH757

23 days

I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: there’s not much better than riding your bike fast at night

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@DCUrbanist

6 months

This is an absolutely comical amount of pavement for the 5 people using it in this video. And 3 of those 5 still manage to crash into each other.

Dave Statter

@STATter911

6 months

#caughtoncamera : Another crash at Army Navy and S. Hayes Street in Pentagon City, VA. This one at a.m. today fits the pattern of many others in that it involves a vehicle making a left turn from the I-395N ramp onto Army Navy and the interaction with traffic traveling northbound

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@DCUrbanist

22 days

This could be DC with ambitious leadership

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

22 days

“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.”

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@DCUrbanist

1 year

The most cathartic YIMBY chart in existence

M. Nolan Gray

@mnolangray

1 year

Notwithstanding the prevailing "folk" non-wisdom that supply and demand simply doesn't apply to housing, the evidence is clear: when you build lots of housing, prices stabilize and even fall. A first class summary of what we know by @jburnmurdoch :

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@DCUrbanist

1 year

This is what 14th & U intersection should look like.

juan

@juanbuis

1 year

the netherlands is *so good* at designing livable cities it’s not even fair just look at this perfect intersection — isn’t this how all cities should be?

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@DCUrbanist

1 month

First time back in DC in 18 months, and I appreciate seeing all the new infrastructure built in that time

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@DCUrbanist

10 months

Yet another indication of high speed rail’s supremacy and why it should be built across America

Joseph Olmo

@ReporterJoseph

10 months

This is why they tell you to get to the airport 2 HOURS EARLY. Welcome to one of the busiest days in the entire year for air travel. This is @Reagan_Airport at ~6am on the eve of Thanksgiving 2023.

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

My politics is whatever this is.

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

Making driving and parking more challenging is literally the point. Cars kill people. We need to be less reliant upon them. That means taking away lanes and parking spaces and replacing them with protected bus and bike lanes.

Luz Lazo

@luzcita

2 years

As D.C. embarks on plans to add 30 more miles of protected bike lanes citywide by 2025, it’s facing growing resistance from residents who worry the lanes will make driving and parking more challenging.

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@DCUrbanist

1 year

“You really gotta stop” Yes, that is in fact the rule that applies to stop signs. I’m glad the camera is working as intended!

Washingtonian Problems

@WashProbs

1 year

Have you gotten a ticket from this stop sign before?

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@DCUrbanist

1 month

Visiting Seattle for the first time and holy shit urban freeways are a blight on American urbanism

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@DCUrbanist

2 years

American NIMBYs: “We can’t add duplexes to our single family neighborhood! We are full!” Meanwhile, in Ronda. Spain: “Eh, it’s only a several hundred foot vertical cliff, surely we can fit apartments all along the edge”

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