29 Apr 2019

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Street Safety Advocates Rally at City Hall

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Safe streets advocate Joe Flood confronts Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC Police Chief Peter Newsham. (Gordon Chaffin/Street Justice)

It’s Personal Now for DC’s Road Safety Advocates

The juxtaposition this week of Mayor Bowser’s K Street Transitway event and the Memorial for Abdul Seck was stark; lost on no one attending the latter. In announcing her $130MM budget plan to remake K Street NW in Ward 2 and failing to show at Seck’s streetside remembrance in Ward 8, the Mayor further cemented her perception in an energized community: action comes only after death, and attention plus investment continue to focus on the already prosperous and relatively safer. [Full Story]

Eastern Downtown Cycletrack Mired in Bowser’s Car Favortism?

Many readers have asked what’s happening on the Eastern Downtown Cycletrack (6th/9th NW) on which DDOT’s taken forever to pick a design on and move forward. In 2017, Mayor Bowser said, in effect, that the existing ideas harm car traffic too much for her to sign off. A 2018 FOIA returned little beyond the public project documents. The first 10% design meeting was held in 2015. [Full Story]

Bike Advocate Dave Salovesh Killed in Crash

A motorist on Florida Avenue NE killed longtime DC bicycling advocate Dave Solvesh last Friday, April 19, right near Galludet University. Dave was a Street Justice subscriber. DC safe streets and bicycling advocates installed a Ghost Bike at the site Sunday morning and embarked on a Memorial Ride Saturday. This is the third death on Florida Avenue NE. Just a tad down from Union Market is a corridor that now appears to be among the deadliest in DC for vulnerable road users. [Full Story]

ABC – Always Be Charging (Your Electric Vehicle)

Charting a long-distance course with an electric vehicle requires following more scenic routes than your typical Google Maps itinerary. The charging points are indeed clustered in major metro areas, but I found malfunctioning chargers in several big towns on my trip North. I’ll write more about this soon, but the pro tip is to check each charger location’s rating on Plugshare. It behooves you to pick only the highest-reviewed chargers and you’ll find them in the weirdest places. [Full Story]

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