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• Facebook: www.facebook.com/wemovedc 
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/wemovedc 
• Flickr: www.flickr.com/groups/wemovedc (post photos) 

Spread the Word 

• Post information about moveDC on your website 
• Direct people to our website wemovedc.org 
• Post moveDC event dates on your organization’s calendar 
• Send an email to your listserv/mailing list encouraging participation 
• Include information about moveDC in your publications Include our press releases in your RSS Feed 
• Write a blog post about moveDC 
• Post flyers in your facilities or send through email 
• Distribute materials, handbills, or brochures to clients that promote move
• DC Make tent cards to promote moveDC survey links and provide to constituents 
• Notify your organization's leadership about this this effort personally 

Encourage Participation 

• Bring 10 people to a moveDC community workshop 
• Organize transportation for your group
• Carpool/vanpool/share a cab 
• Ride public transportation as a group 
• Bike 
• Walk 
• Offer community service hours for attending moveDC events (if applicable) 
• Host a “moveDC Webinar Watch Party”.  Register to join our webinars and invite people to watch with you

Transportation Plan Advisory Committee (TPAC)

What is the TPAC?

The Transportation Plan Advisory Committee (TPAC) has an important role in supporting the moveDC planning process. The committee's membership speaks for a wide range of viewpoints and provides input into the moveDC process and planning products. The TPAC is made up of District residents from each Ward active in transportation-related issue or other civic endeavors. The TPAC is charged with advising the project team throughout the plan development process. They also will help extend the plan's outreach efforts.

Who is on the TPAC?

TPAC members were selected for their interest in transportation in the District. Members of the TPAC are:

·        District residents from across the city (all wards)

·        Leaders in:

o   Complete streets

o   Transportation and land use coordination

o   Transportation equity

·        Members of:

o   Committee of 100

o   Federal City Council, Transportation Committee

o   WMATA Riders Advisory Council

o   Safe Routes to School Program

o   Pedestrian Advisory Council (PAC)

o   Bicycle Advisory Council (BAC)

o   Business Improvement Districts

o   Destination DC

o   Washington DC Economic Partnership

·        Experienced with the development of Circulator and DC Streetcar

·        Supporters of:

o   Accessibility*

o   Aging-in-place*

o   Bicycling and walking

o   Big changes

o   Businesses

o   Equity

o   Neighborhoods

o   Families

o   Schools

o   Transit

o   Transportation choices

o   Tourism

o   Youth* 

*Additional TPAC members with specific interest in these areas are being confirmed

Current confirmed members of the moveDC TPAC are:

·        David Alpert

·        Anne Marie Bairstow

·        Neha Bhatt

·        James Bunn

·        George Clark

·        Cheryl Cort

·        Anita Hairston

·        Elliot Ferguson

·        Jeff Green

·        Ellen Jones

·        Patricia King-Adams

·        Eric Kugler

·        Jair Lynch

·        Barbara McCann

·        Sandra Moscoso-Mills

·        Keith Sellars

·        Joe Sternlieb

What happened at the 1^st TPAC Meeting?

We got right down to business asking the TPAC and public the following questions as conversation starters:

·        What things have been done within the last 10 years that have made travel easier/better for you?

·        What could be done to make your everyday trips easier?

·        What are the most significant challenges that DC will face in the next 30 years?

·        What are our biggest long-term opportunities?

·        What should we be trying to achieve in DC with this plan over the next 30 years?

The discussion spent time answering some of these questions, but also offered opportunities for related comments. Some of the themes of the discussion are below:

·        Many transportation connections are missing in DC

·        People make rational transportation decisions based on time, money, and safety

·        People outside the “core” (downtown DC) want more transportation options to choose from

·        More coordination is needed between transportation modes

·        Times are changing and we need to plan for today and tomorrow

·        Aging in-place, accessibility, and family transportation needs are important

·        DC has good bones to leverage

·        Transportation information is valuable and should be more accessible

A full meeting summary will be posted soon at http://www.wemovedc.org/resources.html. 

What do you think?

Do you have opinions about the TPAC, the questions listed above, or the meeting discussion?

Comment on this post.

How do you move? The Votes are in...

Thank you for taking our first poll on the website. More than 600 of you, 622 to be exact, responded to the poll. The results certainly are interesting, even though they were never intended to be statistically significant.

 

How You Move Today

We asked you how you get to work or school today. You could select more than one method of getting between home and school or work.

 

What You Told Us

A lot of you use bicycles, buses, Metrorail, and your own two feet to get from home to work or school. Comparatively fewer of you drive to get to school and work. Nearly half of you get to school or work using two or more modes of transportation.

 

How You Want to Move in the Future

We also asked how you would like to get to work or school in the future. Again, you could choose more than one way you want to get there.

 

What You Told Us

Compared to today, more of you would like to take the bus, Metrorail, or walk to get to work or school. Again, compared today, a whole lot more of you would like to use streetcar (yeah, okay, any increase is a whole lot if you are starting at 0), bicycle, and telework. From our results, more than 70 percent of you would like to do something other than drive. That’s great news for the SustainableDC plan’s 75 percent non-auto trip share goal.

 

Thoughts on Pedestrians

 A few quick observations on people who said they walk for all or a portion of their trip:

• 53% percent of pedestrians also ride Metrorail and 34% also ride the bus
• Today, 15% of people who walk, make their entire trip walking
• In the future, only 5% would like to exclusively walk

Today’s walkers are very interested in other ways to travel to work or school in the future:

• 83% want to bike (higher than poll average)
• 73% want to ride Metrorail (higher than poll average)
• 63% want to take the bus (higher than poll average)
• 59% want to take streetcar (higher than poll average)
• 38% want to telework (higher than poll average)

What Does All of This Mean?

As we said to begin this commentary, this is not a statistically significant survey. We received 622 responses—approximately 0.1% of DC’s population. Setting all of this aside, there's some very interesting food for thought in the responses:

 

Choices appear to be important

• You are travelling to work or school in a lot of ways now
• You want more choices in the future

Driving may be less important. More data would be helpful, but working with what we have…

• Some people drive today and will drive in the future
• Driving was the only travel mode that saw a decreasing share in the future

Come on streetcar!

• Nearly half of you want to take streetcar to work or school in the future

Multimodal connections should be coordinated and convenient

• More of you want to use several modes of transportation to get from home to work or school in the future

What do you think?

Send us comments.

 

Want more?

Are you interested in other statistics? Do you want to see the data? It’s posted at wemoveDC.org/Resources. If you have any interesting takeaways or infographics, please send them our way!

Moving Ideas at moveDC's Idea Exchange

For anyone who missed Saturday’s (February 9, 2013) moveDC (http://www.wemovedc.org/ ) Idea Exchange, it gave the city a lot to think about. 

At the session’s welcome address, Mayor Gray called for the integration of moveDC with SustainableDC (http://sustainable.dc.gov/ ) and WMATA’s Momentum Plan (http://www.wmata.com/momentum/index.cfm ). The Council’s Transportation Committee Chair, Mary Cheh, highlighted that more, and more equitable transportation options are not an age-thing, they are an “everyone thing,” worthy of a great world city. Councilmember Tommy Wells called for a transportation system that provides equitable access to opportunity and the chance for all of our residents to stay and thrive in our growing city. DDOT Director Terry Bellamy credited the city’s advocates as vital advisors.

During the panel discussion, Developer Chris Leinberger (http://chrisleinberger.com/) called streetcar and bike facilities the two most important transportation investments of our time – and that we were taking too long to build them. He and fellow panelist Matthew Yglesias (of Slate, http://www.slate.com/authors.matthew_yglesias.html) called for establishing value capture systems in the city so that the benefits these investments bring will pay for themselves, even while ensuring housing affordability. Leinberger reminded the audience that economic development is the goal and transportation was just a means to that end. “We’ve confused the means with the goal,” he said and have dedicated far too much right of way to cars rather than higher value uses. During another part of the panel discussion, Matthew Yglesias talked about the importance of the consideration of “aging in-place” and accessibility from the “ground-up” when planning for transportation systems of the future. As the panel approached closure, panelist Anita Hairston of Policylink presented a revelation that 6 of 10 jobs take more than an hour to access by bus, which clearly is not good enough.

And that was just the opening panel. The six hours of interactive activities were full of ideas generated by the people who attended. Panelist Anita Hairston of PolicyLink (http://www.policylink.org/site/c.lkIXLbMNJrE/b.5136441/k.BD4A/Home.htm ) called it a “transportation bonanza.” There were strategies for making the system safe and functional for everyone whether 8 years old or 80. Ideas to create the transit “rainbow line” from NoMa and Union Station via the Capital and Riverfront to Anacostia and St. Elizabeths. Thoughts on how informal carshare can make us more mobile, sustainable, efficient AND relieve curbside pressures…..and too much more to relate.

What was evident from the Idea Exchange was that there is incredible opportunity for transportation in the city, today and in the future. We CAN continue to grow, we CAN maintain affordability; we CAN be a SustainableDC; and we CAN accommodate transportation choice.

Don’t worry if you missed the event, there will be lots of other chances to connect with moveDC. Keep coming back to www.wemoveDC.org for updates on coming events.

Conversation about Congestion

On February 5, 2013, Washington Post reported that our area was rated the worst for traffic congestion.   We shared the link on twitter, which sparked a great conversation.  Here's what you had to say.