{"id":2805,"date":"2021-10-01T18:24:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2021-10-12T23:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T23:56:15","slug":"dangerous-by-design-rally-today-against-the-ddot-17th-st-nw-bike-plan-greeting-of-councilmember-brooke-pinto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/dc\/2805","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dangerous by Design\u2019 &#8211; Rally Today against the DDOT 17th St., NW, Bike Plan &#8211; Greeting of Councilmember Brooke Pinto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail-gs\" style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:1204px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium\">\n<div class=\"gmail-\">\n<div id=\"gmail-:dww\" class=\"gmail-ii gmail-gt\" style=\"font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px\">\n<div id=\"gmail-:dwv\" class=\"gmail-a3s gmail-aiL\" style=\"overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)\">Media Alert: Friday, Oct. 1, 2021<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)\">Contact:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)\">Nick DelleDonne ,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black\"><a href=\"mailto:delledonne.n@comcast.net\" style=\"color:blue\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><a href=\"mailto:delledonne.n@comcast.net\" >delledonne.n@comcast.net<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">, 703 929 6656<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)\"><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)\"><strong>\u2018Dangerous by Design\u2019<\/strong><strong><br \/><\/strong><strong>What: Rally\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Against the DDOT 17th\u00a0St., NW, Bike Plan<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)\"><strong><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Greeting of Councilmember Brooke Pinto<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><strong>When: Friday, Oct. 1, 3:30-5 pm<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)\"><strong>Where: Safeway, 17th\u00a0&amp; Corcoran Streets, NW<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>On Friday October 1, DECAA &amp; the Coalition will rally, \u2018Dangerous by Design,\u2019 against the 17th\u00a0Street Bike Plan imposed by the District Department of Transportation (DDOT).\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Featuring: A wheelchair-bound resident will show how hazardous it is to alight from an automobile on 17th St. under current Plan, which is not ADA compliant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>The rally will be live streamed on The Coalition\u2019s Facebook page\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/dccoalitiononddotbikelanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/dccoalitiononddotbikelanes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The rally will greet Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto during her walking tour and brief her on the need for a comprehensive review of the bike plan and Vision Zero.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Invited speakers include: Dean Hunter (Shaw), William Jordan (Columbia Heights}, Commissioner Kevin Rogers (ANC 6E07),\u00a0Paul Wittrock (Glover Park), Latiesha Boyd (Ivy City), and Sharice Crawford (at-large member of the Democratic State Committee).<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>DECAA and the Coalition rally to save a livable\/walkable business and residential community; demand a comprehensive review of a broken bike plan, meaningful community engagement of DDOT\u2019s Vision Zero program and find a safe, alternate bike route.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><em>Music by Lorenz Wheatley<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Nick DelleDonne<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)\"><strong><em>Dupont\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>East Civic Action Association<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)\"><strong><em>City-wide Coalition on DDOT Bike Plans<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)\"><strong><em><a href=\"tel:(703)%20929-6656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">703 929 6656<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail-yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail-adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail-adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail-adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail-hq gmail-gt gmail-a10\" id=\"gmail-:dxq\" style=\"margin:15px 0px;clear:both;font-size:0.875rem\">\n<div class=\"gmail-hp\" style=\"width:1204px;border-top:1px dotted rgb(216,216,216)\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail-a3I\" style=\"width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidden\">Attachments area<\/div>\n<div id=\"gmail-:dxt\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail-aQH\" id=\"gmail-:dxs\" style=\"padding-top:16px\">\n<div class=\"gmail-aZK\" style=\"height:0px;overflow:hidden;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail-hi\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px;padding:0px;width:auto;background:rgb(242,242,242);margin:0px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br class=\"gmail-Apple-interchange-newline\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Media Alert: Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 Contact:\u00a0Nick DelleDonne ,\u00a0\u00a0 delledonne.n@comcast.net, 703 929 6656 \u2018Dangerous by Design\u2019What: Rally\u00a0\u00a0Against the DDOT 17th\u00a0St., NW, Bike Plan \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Greeting of Councilmember Brooke Pinto \u00a0 When: Friday, Oct. 1, 3:30-5 pm Where: Safeway, 17th\u00a0&amp; Corcoran Streets, NW \u00a0 \u00a0 On Friday October 1, DECAA &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,1,67,69,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-dc","category-planning","category-transportation","category-w2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}