Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Washington DC

Federal workers spent $3.5 billion on transportation costs in the 2018 fiscal year, with about 71 percent on flights and 18 percent on rental cars. Image: Garen M.

All Hail! Gov’t Workers Using Uber Way Too Much

By Aaron Short | Oct 28, 2019 | No Comments

Government workers are turning to Uber and Lyft on business trips, with a 922-percent increase in spending last year, newly released records from the General Services Administratiaon show. At the same time, workers are using less transit.

Transit ridership improved in the second quarter of the year thanks to passengers returning to the New York and DC subway systems. Image: Thomas Hawk

Urban Transit Systems are Adding Riders (Mostly)

By Aaron Short | Oct 15, 2019 | No Comments

You asked for a deep dive on transit ridership numbers — you got it!

Car2Go is pulling its vehicles out of five North American cities to concentrate on other areas where membership is more robust.

POST-MORTEM: Car2Go is Car2Gone in 5 Cities

By Aaron Short | Oct 1, 2019 | 7 Comments

The largest car sharing company in the world is withdrawing from five North American cities after being squeezed at both ends of a volatile economy that has given passengers a multitude options to motor around their cities.

Climate Protests Stop D.C. Traffic Dead

By Aaron Short | Sep 24, 2019 | 4 Comments

The goal was to reminded drivers of the ravaging effects their car dependency has on life on this planet.

Photo: Dan Malouff/Greater Greater Washington

DC’s Bus-Only Lane Passes Test, Expanding to Saturday

By Vince DiMiceli | Sep 20, 2019 | No Comments

Weekday dedicated bus lanes being tested in Washington, D.C. will become permanent — and expand to Saturday — starting on Nov. 12, the District Department of Transportation announced on Friday.

Los Angeles has the worst congestion in the country with drivers sitting in traffic an average of 119 hours in 2017.

Traffic Study Comes Under Fire for Being Too ‘Pro-Car’

By Aaron Short | Sep 9, 2019 | 9 Comments

A landmark report that analyzes traffic congestion and its costs is coming under fire from transportation experts who say its methodology and findings are biased toward cars. The Urban Mobility Report “is a throwback to an earlier age” that “reflects an outdated transport planning paradigm which assumed that ‘transportation’ means automobile travel and ‘transportation problem’ […]

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