Tips for winter biking ❄️🚲🧊

Advocacy Team Intern, Maia Riggs, has compiled a list of tips to help you stay safe and warm while riding your bike this winter.

Blog Post: Last updated by Sarah Haedrich on February 13, 2024.

Blog Post: Last updated by Sarah Haedrich
on February 13, 2024.

 

A short history of Safe Streets efforts

While the safe streets campaigns have had a global uptake in the past ten years, the efforts can be traced back to the 1920s in America when automobiles were popularized in America In the 1950s and 1960s, concerned mothers became particularly interested in the cause on behalf of their children.

Blog Post: Last updated by Colin Browne on December 28, 2023.

Blog Post: Last updated by Colin Browne
on December 28, 2023.

 

Letter on September 13th Crash

WABA, Greater Greater Washington, and DC Families for Safe Streets sent the following letter to the Mayor’s office September 14th, 2021 in response to a driver killing a 5 year old.

Blog Post: Last updated by Colin Browne on October 6, 2021.

Blog Post: Last updated by Colin Browne
on October 6, 2021.

 

As the District Reopens, It Needs Resilient Streets

Over the last six months, the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced every aspect of life in cities, including where, how, and how often we move around. As the pandemic peaked in DC, WMATA’s rail ridership declined 90%. Despite service returning to near pre-pandemic levels and taking steps to restore rider confidence by promoting public health and […]

Blog Post: Last updated by Jonathan Kincade on September 30, 2020.

Blog Post: Last updated by Jonathan Kincade
on September 30, 2020.