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Transit, Parking and Traffic Congestion |
- Parking: Opposed an increase in residential parking permit fees.
- Metro: Appropriated additional funding for Metro Access because the number of vehicles needed to meet the District’s demand was underestimated by the contractor operating the service and sought accountability for this mistake.
- Parking: Sought to establish a pilot program to allow teachers special daytime parking permits.
- Metro: Introduced legislation to provide dedicated funding for Metro.
- Metro: Extended the Yellow Line to Fort Trotten during off-peak periods, starting in January. The extension will double the number of weekend and evening trains available at the Shaw/Howard University, U Street, Columbia Heights, and George Avenue/Petworth stations on the Green Line.
- Metro: Led Metro’s effort to obtain 160 compressed natural gas Metro buses in DC to improve air quality standards.
- Metro: Led Metro efforts to extend weekend hours until 3 a.m.
- Metro: Sponsored the name change to add “African American Civil War Memorial” to the U Street/Cardozo Metro Station to encourage neighborhood tourism.
- Metro: Sponsored the name change to add “Adams Morgan” as a destination on the Metro Red Line, and the creation of the Metro “Link” Shuttle, both to help relieve Adams Morgan-U Street congestion and parking problems.
- Parking: Supported the construction of the Adams Morgan garage/mixed use project, which has opened with 350 parking spaces.
- Metro: Served as a member of the Metro Board since 1999.
- Parking: Supported better enforcement of out-of-state parking violations, by increasing the number of Parking Control Aides.
- Traffic: Sponsored the return of 13th St. to non-rush hour conditions, increasing parking and calming traffic after some 50 years of serving as a commuter speedway for Maryland drivers.
- Traffic: Led efforts to convert 15th Street into a single lane road, with traffic calming devices north of Florida Avenue.
- Traffic: Sponsored legislation that eliminated legal obstacles to installing rumble strips, speed humps and other traffic calming devices.
- Metro: Supported the establishment of the Metro Flexcar program.
- Parking: Created the Ward One Parking Task Force that resulted in the opening of the Reeves Center parking garage to private parking, and other improvements.
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