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Endorsements!

ANC
campaign
Transit
Bikes
Housing
Update Oct. 19: Two more endorsements! See below.
Sep 18, 2024
J. I. Swiderski
2 min

People marching with rainbow banners under a sunny sky on a road lined with large trees.

More bikes, more homes, more transit, for all!

ANC
Transit
Bikes
Housing
In 2023, my partner and I joined Greater Greater Washington’s contingent in the DC Pride march, and unexpectedly ended up getting to carry the banner. Together with the…
Aug 24, 2024
J. I. Swiderski
6 min

 

GGW Endorsement Questionnaire Answers

Greater Greater Washington sends candidates for ANC seats a questionnaire as part of their endorsement process. They warn that Surveymonkey won’t save partial answers, so…
Aug 11, 2024
J. I. Swiderski
12 min

 

On the Ride of Silence (2024)

Advocacy
DC
Events
#bikeDC
#walkDC
sitDC
DC Council
Congress
Ride of Silence
US DOT
DDOT
Vision Zero
Introductory remarks before the 2024 DC Ride of Silence. As prepared for delivery, May 15, 2024. Originally written for the 2021 Ride, and updated annually since.
May 15, 2024
J. I. Swiderski
4 min

 

DC Executive Agencies and the Council Committees that oversee them

It can be hard to figure out which Committee oversees a given agency. Maybe this’ll help.
Oct 29, 2023
J. I. Swiderski
463 min

 

To DC Council: Please reject the Mayor’s street safety cuts

Advocacy
bikes
DC
Letters
transit
walking
#bikeDC
#walkDC
bike lanes
DC
DC Council
DDOT
I write letters
Vision Zero
WABA
Last month, the Office of the DC Auditor reported that, as DCist headlined it, Vision Zero Doesn’t Have Enough Funding, Staffing To Succeed. ’“The Bowser Administration…
Apr 4, 2023
J. I. Swiderski
3 min

 

DC Council committees comparison, 2023 edition

DC Council
It’s time for Council’s biennial post-election shuffle. Who ended up where?
Dec 25, 2022
J. I. Swiderski
5 min

 

On Beach Drive

Advocacy
bikes
DC
Public comment
walking
#bikeDC
#walkDC
car culture
Congress
covid-19
DC
I write letters
National Park Service
Rock Creek Park
Last month, the National Park Service proposed ending the 28-month experiment with a (nearly) car-free Upper Beach Drive in DC’s Rock Creek Park and, in order to “improve…
Aug 11, 2022
J. I. Swiderski
4 min

 

On the Ride of Silence (2021)

Advocacy
DC
Events
Introductory remarks before the 2021 DC Ride of Silence. As prepared for delivery, May 19, 2021.
May 19, 2021
J. I. Swiderski
4 min

 

Supporting increased density on U Street NW

Advocacy
DC
Letters
DC
DC Council
I write letters
It’s nearly time for DC Council to vote to pass the Comprehensive Plan, so it was time to write in again and ask again for the Future Land Use Map to allow greater density on…
May 3, 2021
J. I. Swiderski
3 min

 

Testimony to DC Council on B23-736, the ‘Comprehensive Plan Amendment Act of 2020.’

Advocacy
DC
Testimony
DC Council
Testimony submitted for the record on Council bill B23-736, the “Comprehensive Plan Amendment Act of 2020,” also available on the Chairman’s website at page 1,238 of this…
Dec 3, 2020
J. I. Swiderski
5 min

 

On the Vision Zero Omnibus bill (B23-0288)

Advocacy
bikes
DC
Letters
The revised Vision Zero bill, now known as the Vision Zero Enhancement Omnibus Amendment Act of 2020, passed out of DC Council’s Transportation Committee last week. It’s a…
Jul 16, 2020
J. I. Swiderski
6 min

 

A (non-Swiftian) modest proposal

DC
DDOT
web
Update, March 2021: They did it!…sort of. DDOT did get a brand new shiny website this winter, but now none of the old project links work. Try searching for U Street…
Jan 23, 2020
J. I. Swiderski
3 min

 

Testimony to DC Council on Vision Zero, Oct. 24, 2019

Advocacy
DC
Testimony
#bikeDC
#walkDC
#VZHearingDC
DC Council
Vision Zero
Testimony prepared and submitted for the record of DC Council’s 2019 Vision Zero hearing.
Oct 25, 2019
J. I. Swiderski
5 min

 

What cowards we are, thinking ourselves above all this, but letting it happen.

Quote
Lying is the worst of all evils. Everything else that is diabolical comes from it. And we have been lied to; public opinion is constantly deceived.  Not a page of a…
Dec 31, 2016
J. I. Swiderski
1 min

 

“Are we working out of conventional wisdom or are we trying to think about the world that might be here 10 years from now?”

car culture
North Side
Pittsburgh
“Community based. Pedestrian friendly. Transit oriented. Mixed in uses. High density. Sustainable. Livable.
Jun 23, 2015
J. I. Swiderski
1 min
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