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Join Hill Family Biking for the March family-friendly ride! Check back for more details…

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.

Join a family-friendly ride from Eastern Market to the new SW Library for special story time and librarian-guided tour!

Celebrate 2024 and the K St NE bike lane extension with a family friendly ride/walk/play date!

Alyssa Proudfoot Siegel is so excited to begin her new DC Organizer role at WABA with a bang. After biking around DC for almost four years, she’s fallen in love with the district and her little biking community, and is excited to make Washington DC a better place to get around and exist for everyone. […]

Youth. Community. Empowerment. Since 2012, Gearin’ Up Bikes has been on a mission to create bicycle-mechanic training for youth from under-served communities in Washington, DC, simultaneously offering career development opportunities and providing access to quality, affordable, used bicycles for those in need. To all of you in the wider bicycling community who have lent their […]

Take Action and tell the Mayor and City Administrator to move forward with multimodal infrastructure changes for Connecticut Avenue!

Join WABA and SSAFETY for our monthly community webinar/discussion on bike buses!

WABA is hosting a documentary screening of The Street Project at the Adams Morgan Community Center in the Line Hotel. The Street Project documentary highlights the global, citizen-led fight to make our streets safer.

Calling all transportation wonks and amateurs! Test your knowledge of all-things transportation with the following quiz!

To show our thanks for your support during 2023, you’re invited to the WABA Holiday Mixer at Baja Tap Bar!

Cap City Trivia is hosting a special Trivia Night at Open City featuring Washington Area Bicyclist Association! No reservations needed – compete for prizes as you pedal your way to victory with a round of Qs by WABA. Questions start at 7pm!

Just like bike lanes join up one by one to build a network, advocates win safer streets meeting by meeting, petition by petition, call by call.

Cap City Trivia is hosting a special Trivia Night at the Coupe featuring Washington Area Bicyclist Association! No reservations needed – compete for prizes as you pedal your way to victory with a round of Qs by WABA. Questions start at 7pm!

WABA’s members are making it easier than ever to access the breezy, everyday joy of getting around our region by bike.

Join goDCgo for free on-site biking tune-ups and bike maintenance instructions (note: limited availability).

Members of the District of Columbia chapter of Families for Safe Streets installed signs at over 50 crash sites across all eight Wards memorializing fatal crashes.

As we await word from DDOT on the status of the Connecticut Ave Protected Bike Lane, we will be hosting a postcard writing party for World Day of Remembrance!

Join Families for Safe Streets groups across the region to support family members and crash survivors and honor their experiences with traffic violence.

Family ride from Michigan Park Community Playground to the Bryant Street Market with free hot cocoa & holiday crafts.

Let’s not miss a chance to create a safe biking and walking alternative to Canal Road in Georgetown—sign this petition from grassroots advocates.

Join us on Nov 19 for the Ride for Your Life ’23 to commemorate World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.

Join us on Saturday (11/18) to visit the recently installed “Centuries” exhibit by artist Nekisha Durrett. Durrett’s exhibit focuses on celebrating Black women bicyclists, drawing from stories of five Black women, who gathered in 1928 to cycle for three days, from New York City to Washington, DC.

Visit “Centuries”, an exhibit by Nekisha Durrett celebrating the contributions of Black women to the sport of cycling.

DDOT will review the Suitland Parkway Trail rehabilitation project updates and hear from attendees.

Share your thoughts with NPS on the future of Parkland in Congress Heights.

Join a special meeting with ANC 4C and DDOT to discuss traffic calming measures for Grant Circle.

DDOT will review the Met Branch Trail (Blair Rd to Piney Branch Rd NW) project updates and hear from attendees.

Share feedback with ANC 4C and DDOT about traffic calming measures for Grant Circle.

Join DDOT’s 3rd meeting on the Douglas Street Pedestrian Bridge Project to improve connectivity and pedestrian access.