WABA will be hitting the streets tonight to begin our “Got Lights?” program for 2012, giving away 1,000 free sets of front and rear lights (provided by DDOT). The program…

…& Outreach intern played a critical role in planning the Forum and took part in a wide range of WABA activities. For the spring, we’re looking for a new intern…

…Less than one mile of new bike lanes was installed in 2011. As DDOT nears the end of the timeframe laid out in 2005’s Bicycle Master Plan, the target for…

…comment. Comments are limited to two (2) minutes. DDOT is committed to ensuring that no person is excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits of its projects, programs, and…

…Community members’ concerns centered on the need to remove paid parking spots to accommodate expansion of commercial loading zones. Currently, incomplete and disconnected bike lanes exist on Columbia Rd., NW…

…bicycling to school used to be as common as butterflies in your stomach on the first day. Now however, not so much. Parents’ work schedules, ultra heavy backpacks, speeding commuter…

The rain didn’t stop this weekend’s 9th mobile bike shop in downtown Anacostia. WABA staff and volunteer mechanics from The Bike House biked to the Big Chair, set up their…

…or damaged bicycle without a complete record of the bicycle–including photos, serial number and purchase information–is very challenging. Police will need complete information to file a useful missing property report….

…stage, two community gardens, a peanut park, two playgrounds, basketballs courts and baseballs diamonds, a restored stream and thriving community organizations like The Riverside Center. Cyclists of all ages spent…

…M cycletracks and the 15th Street cycletracks. Later that week, he reportedly met with DDOT Director Bellamy to communicate the need to complete the L & M Street cycletracks. Earlier…

…Bicycle Advisory Council, DDOT’s Bicycle & Pedestrian Program, DDOT’s new head engineer, and many community members. Discussions centered around the traffic circle (to be built on the southeast side of…

This weekend’s event at the Malcolm X Recreation Center felt more like a neighborhood bike party than a mobile bike shop. While children spent their time racing bikes around an…

…motto: Drink Before You Are Thirsty. Remember that you can fill your water bottle for free at area TapIt locations. Other things to consider: camelbaks, drinking energy drinks to replace…

…response was overwhelming. Last week, we contacted the lucky winners of our Get On a Bike contest and delivered five brand new 2011 Jamis Commuter bikes, plus locks and helmets,…

…too, when the rhetoric lingered after the election and residents showed up at hearings to protest bike lanes and trails planned for areas east of the river. “Some of the…

(For a description of the HIA project, CLICK HERE.) On July 1, WABA received the exciting news that we have been chosen to move forward to the next round of…

…Washington DC region, we are nearing our 100,000th student reached via our mobile bike rodeo trailers, in-service training sessions for teachers, hands on bike lessons, in class pedestrian and bicycle…

…business–who have such hatred for cyclists as a class of roadway users that they assault us as general practice. Given the added power of a vehicle and an engine, Justine…

Street striping plans for the Columbia Rd., NW bike lanes (click to download PDF version) Last night at the July meeting of the DC Advisory Neighborhood Commission 1C tabled its…

…WABA–as an outside organization–to obtain. But we still can’t get anywhere without your help. If you’ve been in a bicycle crash with a motor vehicle in the past five years…

…but we also are committed to enabling more residents to commute by bike. And we need those new cyclists to become advocates for cycling in their community, so that when…

…facility that helps to build communities by providing car-free access to necessities and amenities, and enabling those without private vehicles a reliable connection to the transportation network and jobs. We…

…a beautiful spring for getting people on bikes. We know that WABA supporters will come through if we demonstrate that we are serious about expanding cycling in Wards 7 and…

Last Saturday, WABA held a Learn to Ride class for adults and a Mobile Bike Shop at Anacostia Public Library. After weeks of community-based outreach from our Bike Ambassadors and…

As our Mobile bike shop came to a close this Sunday, many who attended stayed behind to help The Bike House pack up their tools and supplies, and continue conversations…

From Greater Greater Washington: Event planners need to be mindful of common bikeway access points when setting up street closures. It is not appropriate to use a one-size-fits-all security approach…

…to ride without training wheels they didn’t say too much else except for “stay on the sidewalk,” and “wear a helmet.” Not dwelling too long on this thought, you decided…

…Blake, mother of a 10-year-old son from the Fairfax Village neighborhood, “there are hardly any bike lanes. We need them. We need them badly.” Read the complete article online here….

…week in which a struck cyclist in wrongly cited for an infraction. We at WABA have written, called, petitioned, and testified on this issue–including before DC’s Committee on the Judiciary,…

…shops serve as an opportunity to find out how WABA can better serve the car-centric neighborhoods in Ward 7 and Ward 8 and encourage new voices to enter the conversation….