Congestion charges have been enacted in quite small cities in the UK, notably Durham (population 50,000) and Oxford (population 165,000). The assumption that congestion charges are only for cities on a New York / San Francisco / Philadelphia scale is not necessarily correct.
📍Gather @ 11am @ Trinidad Rec Ctr 🛝🌳
📍End @ metrobar 🍕🍻
* Free kids craft
* Wood fired pizza from El Jefe for sale
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
When we say no war but class war we mean that no one in Iran is poisoning our water or stealing our wages or kidnapping our neighbors. And the people who are? They're spending our money on killing Iranians
New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric).
"AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...
NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
making bean memes with family instead of paying any attention to sotu
current status
Totally fine and expected, but (a) ack in print and on-air, (b) lose the preening.
The on-air version doesn't even mention @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social, but most people read NPR stories, right?
I was listening to this "exclusive" breaking story on NPR this morning and thought no way they just found this on their own. Lo and behold...
I know there is a lot, but this really does break a part of me. It is so lawless on so many levels — and each individual boat strike is a choice.
These are the same people trying to keep us from teaching ‘divisive concepts’ like the afterlife of slavery.
Reminder: the entire NSF budget is 9B and NIH like 47B. And they have 500B that they don’t know how to spend.
The OECD’s new Road Safety Annual Report offers a reminder that the US approach toward traffic safety is an abject failure.
Americans are >2x more likely to die on the road than those in South Korea, Israel, Australia, Spain, and other rich countries.
www.itf-oecd.org/road-safety-...
Greater Greater Washington endorses Janeese Lewis George for DC mayor.
This 👇
Scsh would've really been something.
Video from 3 years ago of my then 4-year-old riding all the way down to the tidal basin to Cherry Blossom Peak Bloom on his own bike SAFELY BECAUSE OF THE 15TH STREET PROTECTED CYCLETRACK
We mourn the loss of Jesse Jackson, an icon who bridged eras of history—from the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. to his groundbreaking Presidential campaigns to his time as DC’s Shadow Senator. In today’s difficult times, we must strive to live his words: Keep hope alive
Wow.
WABA relaying something I also heard this past week (and that, if it happened two weeks ago, I would have tried to report out for the Post): USDOT wants to remove a chunk of the 15th Street NW bike lane where it crosses the National Mall waba.org/2026/02/13/f...
Sun management has once again disparaged our talented -human- reporters and their work, this time by filling more than half a page in today’s paper with AI slop.
Who is leading the fight against the Trump admin attack on universities & our communities throughout this country?
Unions are!
@senbillferg.bsky.social @mddems.bsky.social & @mdhousedems.bsky.social, help us help defend democracy & MD universities by passing our collective bargaining bill!
This is the most hostile and ignorant set of survey responses on micromobility I've seen.
Thanks for looking into this! I guess next time I can bug CUA to get at least the outer ramps done (and that bus stop). Still doesn't get you over the bridge unless DC can get its act together.
The monks could make a tremendous terminus play today...
Kiddo holding her very special bear.
One of the monks came over and gave my daughter his teddy bear 🧸, which was deeply special.
Barefoot monk in the Walk for Peace
Monks in the Walk for Peace
Monks in the Walk for Peace
Monks and crowd in the Walk for Peace
#TranspoBINGO: I Spy: the venerable monks of the Walk for Peace concluding their walk from Texas. Among them, Phra-Ajarnh Maha Dam Phommasan, who became a victim of traffic violence earlier in the journey.
Your regular reminder that the citizens who serve on these DC grand juries lack the basic right to representation in the very government they are asked to participate in. Statehood for DC must be at the top of the agenda when we get through this crisis.
