In partnership with Taylor Street Neighbors
Taylor Street NE is an important east-west corridor, connecting 16 schools, plus a number of rec centers, retail hubs, and other centers of community activity to each other, to the Metro, and to the Metropolitan Branch Trail. DDOT is currently considering a protected bike lane along this corridor, scheduled for construction in 2025.
Use this form to let DDOT know that you support this new bike lane, and that it should be built without delay.
Bike lanes are most effective when they connects to other bike lanes, protected bike lanes, even more so.
WABA works with teams of grassroots volunteers across the District to demand a network of low-stress places to bike. A network where you, your kids, nephews, nieces, or grandkids, can all get where you need to go safely, easily, happily on bikes.
Complete Streets are streets designed to accommodate all users, and that prioritize historically underinvested modes of transportation like transit, walking, and biking. An incomplete street might lack adequate sidewalks, low-stress bike infrastructure, or safe and comfortable access to transit.
Effective Complete Streets policies change the way a jurisdiction plans and builds transportation infrastructure—sidewalks, low stress bike infrastructure, and transit should be included in any new or rebuilt street by default, rather than as an add-on when there's space or demand.
While most regional jurisdictions have a Complete Streets policy of some sort, they lack teeth and permit transportation departments to continue to build streets that put cars first and squeeze other modes into the margins.
WABA fights for a region where biking, walking and transit are the best ways to get around.
We educate policymakers and organize grassroots advocates for to speak up for safer places to bike and walk; and for laws and policies that protect people who are walking and biking, reduce dangerous driving, and facilitate changes to the built environment.