J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski@transportation.social

@rainbowR erm, Feb. 22 is a Thursday.
Did you mean Wednesday, Feb 21, or Thursday, Feb 22?

“Including a few design features for pedestrians and cyclists is not enough. Following a Complete Streets approach means prioritizing the safety of all road users and designing for safety over speed.”

Yes, even in rural areas people walk, roll, and ride bikes, and deserve to be safe doing so.
https://smartgrowthamerica.org/what-it-means-to-follow-a-complete-streets-approach-in-rural-america/

@bikepedantic I'm glad to see others had the same question i did.

(Alas, I have no room for either a cargotrike or a puppy ATM...)

@20002ist I suppose it's worth noting here that one of the bills @brianneknadeau introduced last year would allow people to get DCgov (Safe at Home Act) funding to make inaccessible off-street parking spaces accessible... https://lims.dccouncil.gov/Legislation/B25-0258
(It has 7 co-introducers, but Allen doesn't seem to be one of them.)
@LhasaCM @bikepedantic

@kwanimal @LhasaCM @veleau_monica last i looked (a week or two ago) there was also an issue where if you filtered by ward, then added the numbers up, you got a different total than if you did the whole-city by-mode chart.

turned out a couple people on borders (e.g., one of the Benning Rd incidents, though oddly not another) were showing up under both wards. which is probably correct, tbh, but threw me off for a bit.

20-49 also mandates that "The Mayor shall require permittees blocking a…pedestrian or bicycle path to provide a safe accommodation for pedestrians and bicyclists" and "treat the blockage of a…pedestrian or bicycle path the same as the closure of a lane of traffic, and…apply similar regulations…."

In your second decade, may *all* your provisions be implemented and effective!

Happy tenth anniversary to DC Law 20-49, the “Bicycle Safety Amendment Act of 2013,” effective Dec. 13, 2013.
https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/laws/20-49

20-49 allows bikes to proceed on LPI, allows bike riders to not have a bell and give warning by voice, and establishes fines for drivers not yielding to and hitting bike riders.

this might work for established professionals, but early-career people are the _least_ likely to be able to get their companies to pay for something like this, _or_ to be able to do it on their own.

even those who work for private-sector consulting firms.

"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." 🤣

https://wagner.nyu.edu/rudincenter/2023/11/emerging-leaders-transportation-2024-applications-open

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: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews346.pdf

@ebooksyearn @mdickens @LhasaCM @20002ist
...which moving company?

DC ANCs and others that host public meetings who are moving to hybrid meetings, or thinking about it, might benefit from this upcoming US Access Board webinar on how to make sure they're accessible.

https://www.accessibilityonline.org/cioc-508/session/?id=111085

@20002ist @mdickens
Imagine if we had a law requiring creating a safe alternative any time construction requires blocking a bike lane or pedestrian route....

(oh, wait...)

@20002ist @bikepedantic reminded of one of the best stage directions in Shakespeare, if not all of theatre:

EXIT, pursued by a bear

“In the car, you drive down the street, and you look, but on the bike you have an intimate relationship with what’s going on on the street…”
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/dc-e-bikes-safety-vision-zero/