J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski@transportation.social
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active & public transportation advocate and planner; lifelong walker and somewhat-more-than-occasional bike rider.
fan of maps, transit, & cities; baseball, hockey, and football; puns; oxford commas; and semicolons.
candidate for DC ANC 1B03, endorsed by @DCYIMBYs and @ggwash.
Joined Nov 2022
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Car LOS is an outdated metric that led directly to many of our massively oversized superroads where the greatest numbers of people, esp.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.
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
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/)
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.
“We believe that [The E’s framework of traffic safety] approach to transportation design and planning has limited engineers’ and planners’ understanding of how their work impacts health and safety.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198223001525
[open access/no paywall]
J. I. Swiderski, MURP
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For those of you who need him, may I present smooshy-faced Nigel.
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."
interesting-sounding webinar, for planners, geographers, and more:
"The next webinar in the U.S. Access Board’s Section 508 Best Practices Webinar Series will take place Tuesday, September 26 from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. (ET) and introduce the concept, development, tools, and benefits of creating and using accessible maps…."
https://www.accessibilityonline.org/cioc-508/session/?id=111071
”Disability affects everyone at some point in their lives, and we“—all of us, planners, designers, engineers, architects, policymakers, and everyone else—”have an ethical and legal obligation to ensure a person with disabilities has the same access as anyone else.“
After nearly two decades in development (and a few in the regulatory wilderness), #PROWAG is finally here. More on what it covers and what it doesn't—and how Toole Design can help with both: https://tooledesign.com/insights/2023/08/prowag-adoption-marks-disability-rights-milestone/
J. I. Swiderski, MURP
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About to start work on a guide to designing streets and sidewalks to be accessible for neurodiverse* people and those with cognitive and developmental disabilities.
#Transportation planners, #CompleteStreets designers, and others in and around the #Planning field, if you've seen or are familiar with such guidance — non-US welcome — please let me know!
(* Specifically autism spectrum disorder, but I'd happily go beyond that if you've got relevant resources.)
Please also consider calling on behalf of the roughly 700,000 of us in DC who don't have Senators to call.
J. I. Swiderski, MURP
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Hey, if you're in Washington state, please call Senator Cantwell's office. According to this article (paywall-free link), Cantwell is one of the people pushing hardest for KOSA, which Republicans have admitted will be used to drive LGBTQIA+ content off the internet. (Everyone else, also please call your Senators!)
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.
About to start work on a guide to designing streets and sidewalks to be accessible for neurodiverse* people and those with cognitive and developmental disabilities.
#Transportation planners, #CompleteStreets designers, and others in and around the #Planning field, if you've seen or are familiar with such guidance — non-US welcome — please let me know!
(* Specifically autism spectrum disorder, but I'd happily go beyond that if you've got relevant resources.)
Oh, hey, Metro's July 4th train is still around... #LibertyAndTransportationForAll
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....
J. I. Swiderski, MURP
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@DrTCombs @bikepedantic @largess @pedbikeinfo could omit the word bicyclist
"If we're serious about traffic safety, we're making things safer for bicycling even in contexts where getting more people to choose to bike is unlikely."
#VisionZero
J. I. Swiderski, MURP
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@bikepedantic @largess @pedbikeinfo Boosting @bikepedantic's reply here doesn't feel nearly strong enough. I would like to shout it from the rooftops, please.
"If we're serious about bicyclist safety, we're making things safer for bicycling even in contexts where getting more people to choose to bike is unlikely."
… and others whose names were never released.
Hundreds are killed while riding in the US every year—over 1,000 in 2022.
Tonight, #BikeDC and over 200 cities across the country and around the world pause #BikeWeek to honor those we've lost with a #RideofSilence and #DemandMore from our local and national leaders & DOTs.
#BikeDC, meet at 6:30pm at 14th & PA NW, roll at 7.
http://rideofsilence.org/locations-domestic.php?s=DC
https://facebook.com/events/914817843060729/
Find other rides at http://www.rideofsilence.org/
TONIGHT: #BikeDC #RideofSilence, honoring those killed while riding bikes and scooters—20 in the last ten years, including Samuel Kesselman, Shawn O’Donnell, Michael Gordon, Michael Hawkins Randall, Allison Hart, Jim Pagels, Armando Martinez-Ramos, Michael Williams, David Farewell, Dave Salovesh, Tom Hollowell, Carlos Sanchez Martin, Jeffrey Hammond Long, Dominique Antonio Lewis, Malik Habib, Burgess Johnson, Dan Neidhardt, Jerrel Robert Elliott, Christopher Brewer, Tonya Reaves, Andre Brands, …
- https://twitter.com/swiderskiji
- ANC-campaign twitter
- https://twitter.com/JS_1B03
- donate to my campaign for ANC
- https://secure.actblue.com/donate/j-swiderski?refcode=mstdn
active & public transportation advocate and planner; lifelong walker and somewhat-more-than-occasional bike rider.
fan of maps, transit, & cities; baseball, hockey, and football; puns; oxford commas; and semicolons.
candidate for DC ANC 1B03, endorsed by @DCYIMBYs and @ggwash.
Joined Nov 2022
