As a longtime @GGWash reader (like, since before I moved to DC, seriously) and supporter, I am grateful, proud, and delighted to be not just endorsed but called "a top-notch choice" for ANC 1B03.

ggwash.org/view/96942/2024-anc

(Also, you can now donate here: secure.actblue.com/donate/j-sw)

ballot order is proven to matter for election results, especially small/low-info races, so many places hold a lottery to make sure it's random.

DC's was today; the results are posted at dcboe.org/elections/2024-elect

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things you love to see: your name in #1 position on your ballot order list.

"The program fee is $2,000 for private sector participants" 😹

"Applicants are welcome from any location; however, we are unable to subsidize travel or lodging for participants." 🤣

wagner.nyu.edu/rudincenter/202

i make pretty good money as an early-career professional at a private firm, but there's no way i could afford to take time off, pay more than an entire paycheck (more than twice the cost of TRB!) for a half-week-long program, and pay for a hotel in NYC besides (on <6 weeks' notice!).

The Transportation Research Board magazine TR News becomes freely available 4 months after publication, so this summer’s accessibility-focused edition, “Addressing Transportation and Accessibility for All” (TRN 346, Jul-Aug 2023), is now unlocked....

PDF: onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/

Per twitter.com/ZachBIsrael/status, DC has reached 40 traffic fatalities for the year, matching 2021 for the worst total since 2007—with two and a half months left to go.

16 pedestrian fatalities trails only 2021 & 22 for the most on record—and, given we're only one behind 2021, we'll likely top that.

What is a mncppc, anyway?
How do you work with ANCs?
Who owns that road?

APBP-DC + @ggwash present
DMV Local Gov't 101,
sponsored by Toole Design and RK&K,
Oct 4 at Metrobar

Lightning presentations by & for planners + advocates on local govt, how it works & how to work it.

6.7 yrs of DC traffic deaths, by ward and mode.

a couple things stick out:

- W6 & esp. W7 have actually gotten better the last few years. W8 *had* been, until 2023.

- W2 had dropped quite a bit, until the pandemic.

- With a third of the year still to come, W2 and W8 are already well above recent yearly totals.

- W5 is shockingly consistently deadly. The particulars change year to year, but the same number of people are killed, year after year.

- "Vision Zero isn't a cycling program."

not sure if it's a this-instance thing or if it's a setting I unwittingly set, but this thing where as I scroll the little link preview card thing (as seen at left) flips into a giant link preview that takes up half my screen (right) is getting a little old.

if this is something I accidentally chose, how do I turn it off?

if this is a server choice, for the love of god, (a) why (b) make it stop.

The American Planning Assoc. member survey asks if you're interested in pursuing AICP certification -- and, if not, what or who influenced you not to....

👏👏👏

It shouldn't be a surprise to find a municipal Vision Zero Action Plan explicitly calling out "the 94% myth" and the difference in where other parts of the world put the fault and responsibility for road safety....

...but, here we are.

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