Conor Shaw

For those curious, here’s the CFO’s analysis of the tax abatements in the proposed RFK deal. CFO concludes that they total $1.48 Billion and are not financially necessary. cfo.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

Be careful who you road audit with

If you’d like to flag safety concerns for any mode of transportation on North Capitol Street from Mass Ave to Michigan Ave, here’s the online comment form: survey123.arcgis.com/share/c26ffd...

For all sorts of reasons, I would love for all District residents to be within a 20 minute walkshed of a small format grocery store. If you factor in that kind of consideration, Edgewood has really leap frogged much of Bloomingdale and Stronghold. www.urban.org/data-tools/r...

Big milestone for this critical WMATA and Ward 5 project!

States tend to have an easier time collecting from their own residents. You have more options.

@humaimtiaz.bsky.social walked that side with a 4 yard stick and can give you the details. The new sidewalk by Reservoir Park/District is a compliant 8 ft wide (with an additional few feet of setback for tree boxes). Between Randolph and Channing and north of Evarts, I suspect it’s substandard.

New system issues 48,000 speeding tickets to Maryland drivers in the last 2 months More than 48,000 citations were issued by the Maryland Safe Zones Automated Speed Enforcement system in the first two months of expanded speed monitoring, accor

Good to see our neighbors ramp up ATE in work zones. The more folks get used to the rules being enforced in neighboring jurisdictions, the better off the District will be foxbaltimore.com/news/marylan...

Yes indeed! Let’s do it again sometime—on a cooler day!

Almost every bus stop along this 24/7 bus corridor lacked a shelter and also did not have the DDOT design standard **eight** feet of sidewalk that is required at bus stops.

Great to walk North Capitol St. with Ward 5 Pedestrian Advisory Committee Rep @imgoph.bsky.social. Not great that the entire east sidewalk from Randolph to Michigan is noncompliant with DDOT’s absolute minimum sidewalk width of 4 feet. Thanks to @ddotdc.bsky.social for hosting the road safety audit!

They rarely capture the full content of the video segment in the article.

Not sure from your wording what you mean, but CM Parker was interviewed for the piece.

But this isn’t quite apples to apples because the Cabi map appears to be the raw number of “minority” residents rather than a percentage of total population.

My assumption is that those terms are deployed when we mean non-white (rather than black). The map above looks different from this:

It has some ridership potential, but scores pretty low on everything else. The fact that it wouldn’t serve a particularly diverse population is likely why it loses out to some other more remote parts of the city that have received a station.

I think your answer lies in the amalgamation of these four maps.

….especially in parts of the city where there is less demand or obvious need to provide the focal point and visual cue of a formal docking station.

Yeah….and all of this was written before e-bikes really took over. I honestly wonder what the future looks like for a dock-based system. I could see us moving towards a smaller number of charging stations coupled with “virtual” docks that are simply racks that you are incentivized to lock to.

Was not identified as a high priority location during DDOT’s last Cabi planning cycle. Seems due to be updated soon though! ddot.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

I think where we run into trouble in the US is that we push it when other key ingredients are missing, like frequency, reliability, dense housing, good nationwide or even regional transit policy and investment, etc.

The impact is that it can change culture by making transit the default choice. It’s not instantaneous. But my dad’s generation in Ireland went from being very car centric to high transit adoption. Free fares not solely responsible for that, but still a major component.

I think there are versions of it elsewhere that have had a profound impactful. www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social-we...

It does tell us that a healthy majority of democratic voters in NY—perhaps elsewhere too—are ready for fresh ideas and leadership and will choose a candidate offering that over someone who is a better known and connected, is backed by lot of PAC money, but also has plenty of baggage.

I find this victory genuinely exciting, but the idea that a campaign that secured 43% of the first round vote in a NYC mayoral democratic primary tells us much about how to win a general election campaign across the country seems like a bit of a stretch.

Well, in a primary, this tends to be what one does….

To DDOT’s credit, the designs have improved considerably over time. Road width varies considerably, and most of the time you have to work with the space you’ve got between the two curbs.

Must confess I’ve never seen granite curbs in bike lanes in my travels. My main take away from Paris was that they could get away with far less protection because they seem to have fewer sociopaths on the road and/or real enforcement.

Not complaining but would love to know more about the granite PBL curb stops that just appeared at Dave Thomas Circle/Johnson Plaza. I assume we can thank the Commission on Fine Arts for this extravagance?

‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home

i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...