Streets For People! Activate Connecticut Avenue on September 30

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 - 7:30am
Chevy Chase Circle NW, DC

Let’s send a message to DDOT and to the next DC Mayor and Council: Streets for People!

Join WABA and community advocates to Activate Connecticut Avenue, via a group commute-time ride on Wednesday, September 30. We’ll launch from Chevy Chase Circle at 7:30 am with destination Dupont Circle, where we’ll end with a brief rally.

Why? DDOT planned Connecticut Avenue NW protected bike lanes as a safety measure, as part of a Connecticut Avenue Multimodal Safety Improvement Project… only for Mayor Bowser to kill the project in 2024 just when construction was about to start. Sadly, politics trumped safety. We want Connecticut Avenue NW protected bike lanes back on the District’s safety agenda, hence our message, Streets for People!

Note: We plan to grab a traffic lane, so you must be comfortable riding in the street with a group. The distance is about six miles and the route tends downhill. You must wear a helmet.

Questions? Contact WABA Advocacy at advocacy@waba.org.

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More about The DC Low Stress Network

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.

More about Complete Streets

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.

More about Advocacy

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.