DDOT
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D.C. hopes to make Maryland Avenue safer for pedestrians
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The District Department of Transportation has embarked on big plans to make pedestrian life safer for our city's residents, and the next meeting will focus on how to transform Maryland Avenue NE.
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Picture of the day: Beware the dogs of Petworth
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The pedestrian menace of pet excrement haunts a Petworth block. Luckily, a new sign warns dog walkers that if they don't scoop, they'll receive a serious fine.
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Here's where the D.C. government is planting more than 3,000 trees
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The District of Columbia plans to add thousands of trees in 2012. See what types are coming to your neighborhood and even consider adopting one.
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D.C. is deploying 750 people to handle snow in this year's winter
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The D.C. Council met with different officials this morning to talk about how prepared we are for snow. Never fear, District residents. Our government is prepared with the "penguin chart."
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Picture of the day: A milestone ribbon-cutting for the 11th Street Bridge Project
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Today marked quite the ceremony for our local District government, which proudly assembled a ribbon-cutting at the 11th Street Bridge. As I reported not long ago, the District will be opening the two freeways, which should greatly aid traffic in the area.
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How Mayor Gray and Metro plan to survive the next Snowpocalypse
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Winter is coming, D.C., and although we haven't experienced any true snow, we can bet some will arrive before long. Mayor Vince Gray released the city's snow plans, and one thing's for sure — the D.C. government does not want to get caught off guard this year.
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D.C. college students may lose access to residential parking
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College students sometimes pay three times as much to park on campus as to receive tags to park in residential neighborhoods. One problem, however — residents aren't always happy. The D.C. Council is considering ending these recipricity tags and kicking students out of neighborhood parking spots.
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D.C. reveals a map of the new bike lanes proposed for 2012
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Washington, D.C., are you ready for your next wave of bike lanes? Get excited because several improvements to bike infrastructure are on the way to our capital.
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Here comes that D.C. streetcar mania
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Last night the mayor and District Department of Transportation came together to assure residents of H Street that yes, a streetcar is coming in a year and a half — and the meetings have only begun.
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A map of Washington, D.C.'s 86 curbside parking spaces for car-sharing
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Here's where the District Department of Transportation located their on-street parking spaces to help Zipcar and now other companies like Daimler and Hertz, which will be bringing their car-sharing services to Washington, D.C. in the coming months.
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D.C.'s Green Alley Projects
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Street Smart kicks off its fall 2011 pedestrian awareness campaign
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Expect more citations, more cautionary advertisements, and more efforts to get people to be more careful on the road. Yet will all these gestures, often appealing in fear, ever really end these pedestrian dangers?
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Momentum builds for the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail
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As a ribbon-cutting ceremony attracts powerful officials from the region, a new stretch of the trail signals a powerful and public commitment to the $50 million boon for our pedestrians and bicyclists.
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Zipcar and DDOT's tense impasse over D.C.'s $300,000 curbside parking spaces
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Why did the District Department of Transportation and the world's largest car-sharing company grow so prickly over the last year? The answer revolves around how the District charged for its 80+ curbside parking spaces.
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Transit Tuesdays: Our D.C. civic life officially happens online
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From the D.C. Council to DDOT to the Office of Planning, the District's government has shown its faith in social media. Yesterday's #SustainableDC Twitter townhall, hosted as part of D.C. Week, is just the latest example.
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Picture of the day: Visions of DDOT's Rhode Island Ave. Pedestrian Bridge
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Pedestrians and bicicylists should get excited for the improvements coming to the blocks around the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station. A new pedestrian bridge will help people find the nearby Met Branch Trail.
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Today the 'Farragut Crossing' unites the Farragut North and West Metro stations
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As WMATA holds a ceremony to celebrate the opening of the free-transfer virtual tunnel, a question emerges — why does DDOT hold so many of these types of events while Metro holds so few?
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What Gabe Klein is brewing up in Chicago: Pedestrian-safety mannequins
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The former director of the District Department of Transportation has set up 32 dummies throughout Chicago to represent the pedestrian lives lost last year. In our own city, 89 pedestrians and cyclists are killed every year on average. Should D.C. attempt a similar campaign?
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