Dec 16, 2025
On December 2, at the 11th hour when many streateries were being torn down, Councilmember Charles Allen rushed to save them at the behest of the restaurant lobby. He pushed an emergency, temporary streateries act through the District Council, up-ending 18 months of...
Dec 1, 2025
While many were traveling for Thanksgiving, Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen quietly introduced ‘emergency’ legislation to subvert new streatery rules. Allen’s ‘emergency’ bill lowers fees and allows broad exemptions to appease the restaurant lobby. It...
Nov 17, 2025
You may know the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is preparing a new 5-year Strategic Bikeways Plan. I’m betting you don’t know about its workshops in each Ward (Nov. 13 – Dec. 11) to fulfill its obligation for community engagement. Tonight, the...
Nov 13, 2025
In a discussion last night, Nov. 12, at the Transportation Town Hall in Ward 7, Sharon Kershbaum, director of the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) reported to an overflow crowd that the mammoth East Capitol Street improvement project will not have a bike...
Nov 12, 2025
DDOT’s long awaited schedule of community meetings on its new 5-year plan begins Wednesday, November 12 with a Town Hall, with DDOT Director Sharon Kershbaum and Councilmember Wendell Felder. The initial meeting will be followed by Ward meetings until Dec. 11. Be sure...
Nov 2, 2025
On July 22 this year a driver on the 3900 block of 5th St., NW was shot, the victim of road rage. It is one of many crashes and sideswiping of parked cars since the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) removed a traffic lane and installed a protected bike lane...