DC Council's Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on 10/26 on a trio of bills from @brianneknadeau: The Access to Home Amendment Act of 2023 (B25-0258), Trick-or-Streets AA/2023 (B25-0283), and Prioritizing People in Planning AA/2023 (B25-0296).
https://lims.dccouncil.gov/downloads/LIMS/53141/Hearing_Notice/B25-0296-Hearing_Notice1.pdf?Id=177065
To testify, sign up by the close of business October 24 at https://lims.dccouncil.gov/Hearings/hearings/132 — if you can't testify on Oct. 26, you can submit written testimony at that address until COB November 10. (1/)
The Access to Home AA/2023 changes regs for reserved accessible parking (DCMR 18-2710) to grant spaces to those who have off-street parking that isn't accessible + allow an accessibility grant program (DC Code § 7–551.01) to cover making off-street marking accessible.
https://lims.dccouncil.gov/Legislation/B25-0258
The Trick-or-Streets bill would create a "Halloween safety streets" program to let residents close streets to traffic on Oct. 31 in order to facilitate trick-or-treating safely.
https://lims.dccouncil.gov/Legislation/B25-0283
Finally, and (at least to me) most excitingly, the Prioritizing People in Planning AA/2023 would "prohibit the use of level of service as a metric for transportation projects" & require DDOT to adopt "alternative metrics that account for transit users, pedestrians, cyclists, …and change in [VMT]".
https://lims.dccouncil.gov/Legislation/B25-0296
Car LOS is an outdated metric that led directly to many of our massively oversized superroads where the greatest numbers of people, esp. pedestrians, die. Let's bury it.
