DC OAG Community Forum – NW DC

Check out upcoming events in DC’s Wards 7 and 8 that celebrate outdoor resources and opportunities to active!  Get involved with upcoming projects to help you get around by walking, biking, or taking transit. Explore a park, trail, or neighborhood, including Anacostia Park and the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail, Oxon Run Park and Trail, Marvin Gaye Trail, and more!

WABA works with grassroots advocates at the local, county and state level to support laws and policies that make it easier and safer to walk, bike, and take transit. And we work to changes ones that make biking less safe, make it harder to build bike infrastructure, or that deprioritize the safety and convenience of people walking, biking, or taking transit.

In practice that means advocating for robust and transformative Vision Zero programs, enforceable Complete Streets policies, and funding for new infrastructure that supports biking, walking and transit.

Other regional legislative priorities include:

• Reforming Contributory Negligence (passed in DC, in the works in Maryland and Virginia).
• Getting rid of the Level of Service engineering standards in transportation decision-making.
• Funding E-bike purchase rebates.

WABA runs a variety of outreach programs that create opportunities for people across the region to join the bicycling community.

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.