This week in our round-up of must-read posts: GGWash Picks for favorite articles of 2024, all in one place; Plus, the little-known locations in DC that quietly influenced geo-political situations around the world.
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2024 GGWash Picks: Two key constraints on improving Metrorail service—and eight ways to overcome them
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by Adam Bressler (Guest Contributor) • January 1, 2025
Frequency of service gets more people riding transit, and provides them with a better ride while making the system more efficient. In the second half of this series, Adam Bressler considers several ways WMATA could improve frequency on Metrorail.
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2024 GGWash Picks: How DC neighbors got a dangerous street closed in front of Bancroft Elementary
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by Mark Simon (Guest Contributor) • December 31, 2024
At 8:00 am and 3:00 pm every school day, volunteers shut down the street in front of Bancroft Elementary School in Northwest DC to keep kids and parents safe from drivers. Here’s how they made it happen.
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2024 GGWash Picks: Smile, you’re on camera: A deep dive on automated traffic enforcement data
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by Pete Rodrigue (Contributor) • December 27, 2024
Automated traffic enforcement (ATE) cameras significantly reduce speeding above certain thresholds. They likely prevent some drivers from hitting or killing other people. But cameras alone will not refashion badly designed stroads into more humane, livable streets.
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2024 GGWash Picks: Why affordable housing can’t pay for itself
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by Patrick McAnaney • December 26, 2024
Understand development costs, the financing needed to meet them, and the ever-present “gap.” This was the first in an ongoing series about how affordable housing works.
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2024 GGWash Picks: DC’s brutalist buildings tell a half-hidden history
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by S. D. Hodell (Guest Contributor) • December 26, 2024
Architects and politicians have argued about what DC’s modern federal buildings should look like for decades, with the “winners” becoming semi-permanent fixtures of our urban landscape.
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2024 GGWash Picks: Montgomery County was listening, but mostly heard from Chevy Chase
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by Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director) • December 30, 2024
We looked at who signed up for Montgomery County’s “listening sessions” on a housing proposal and one-third of them came from a single zip code. As many people from zip code 20815, which includes Chevy Chase, signed up for the listening sessions as the next six zip codes combined.
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2024 GGWash Picks: What would you name your Single Member District? We mapped our ideas for all 345 of them
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by David Edmondson (Contributor) • December 25, 2024
The work of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions and the Single-Member Districts that make them up have major local relevance, but their alpha-numeric titles make them seem remote and non-human. What if they each had a name based on a neighborhood, school, park, or other landmark?
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2024 GGWash Picks: How DC’s bus shelters can better serve riders who need them most
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by Santiago Lakatos • December 24, 2024
As the 20-year contract that governs how bus shelters are distributed in DC comes up for renewal, District leaders should prioritize bus riders who would benefit most from them.
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2024 GGWash Picks: Bikeshare Beat: CaBi broke all-time ridership record for fourth consecutive month in August
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by Samuel Littauer (Contributor) • December 24, 2024
People ARE coming back to downtown DC…on Capital Bikeshare, which set another ridership record in August for the fourth straight month. Bikeshare Beat also goes deeper this week, looking at private micromobility, too.
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2024 GGWash Picks: Why it’s so hard, and so important, to embrace change
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by Mike English (Guest Contributor) • December 23, 2024
Not approving zoning changes in Montgomery County won’t make anyone less afraid. But we can make sure that other people aren’t hurt in an effort to placate someone else’s fears.
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Global geopolitics quietly unfolded at these lesser-known spots in DC
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by Keshler Thibert (Contributor) • January 2, 2025
Countries have been born, subsumed, and redirected at locations in the District of Columbia. Some nations’ most influential moments happened in places that bear few physical reminders of that history.
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Washington, DC 20003
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