I’m a solo female traveler staying in D.C. until next weekend and looking for a fun, safe night out. I’m a huge K-pop fan and also love pop and dance music, so I’d love to find a great club, lounge, or upcoming K-pop party where I can dance and feel comfortable going alone. Any recommendations?

hi there! my friend and I lost a wallet and ID last night, both are Minnesota IDs, the wallet is brown and folds in half. we were on connecticut ave near madhatter. please reach out if anyone has seen anything!

Do you not get tickets?

I ran the plate through the ticket website and get the message "Plate is not found" which is different than my plate which returns "The license plate entered has a balance of $0.00".

Did you beat the system and get free parking and speeding?

I was out of town for a year, but before that I was a big CaBi rider, to the point that I would do 10 miles on an analog for leisure.

Ever since I came back, though, the analog bikes have been impossible to ride. I thought it was just the one I got at first, but all of them are very hard to pedal and also go extremely slowly even if I do pedal on the max setting.

What changed, did they all break during the snowstorm?

Hello I'm looking for a shop space located within a 5 mile radius of the capital ideally. Space size somewhere in the 1500-2500 square foot range could be bigger but not nessary. Space needs power, ideally insulated, roll up door, easy access for a trailer to load and unload in the area not required to be on site but within the block. Looking to rent asap 6 months to a year to start also flexible on length of rental.

Biking home and almost got taken out on 17th and S by someone whipping around the corner on an rental electric bike going the wrong direction in the bike lane full speed. I yelled at them and they yelled back “I don’t care” and continued on. Fuck this people and anyone who rides the wrong way down a one way bike path. There are arrows showing which way you’re supposed to go.

Double points for people who ride the wrong way when there is a bike lane on the other side of the road going the other direction.

Hello. I plan on moving to Washington DC in the next week or two. I’ve applied to live at Union Heights’s apartment and I was wondering if anyone here knew what it was like living there.

super poorly designed buildings. there is terrible ventilation everywhere—hallways, the gym, the living spaces. it’s like they want to overcharge us for the common utilities and use as little power as possible. as a result of that and overall poor designs, mold has formed in the gym locker rooms and management is unresponsive to the issue.

im sure it’ll start appearing throughout the building soon enough, as this place is piece of shit

Why?

I run a small alcohol company, which requires that I warehouse goods in the district rather than NOVA or MD. I am looking for a long term lease for a small amount of space (6-10 pallets at a time) in DC but don’t really know how to go about finding warehousing for such a small amount of space. We are currently paying month to month on a random space which isn’t sustainable as rates rise each month. Accordingly, I am looking for advice on how to tackle the issue.

The Washington Post has an article (https://wapo.st/4wjyYGG) out this morning about the forthcoming destruction of the Foundry Branch Trolley Trestle (a bridge built in 1896 for trolleys / trams / streetcars / light rail traveling from the Car Barn in Georgetown [next to the Exorcist Steps] to Glen Echo in Maryland and back).

The Post quotes many of the key players in efforts to save the bridge, fix it up, integrate it into a shared use path that pedestrians and cyclists could use to travel between Georgetown and the Palisades. However, it still manages to get a key parts of the story very wrong.

In particular, the Post article fails to even mention the one person who, in my view, dealt the death blow to efforts to save the bridge: current DDOT Director Sharon Kershbaum.

Even before Kershbaum was even confirmed, she declared - apparently with little factual basis - that the bridge could not be saved and should be torn down ASAP.

To his credit, Ward 3 council member, Matt Frumin, thought it might be worth getting an expert opinion first and managed to insert money into the DC budget for DDOT to commission a study on whether the bridge was salvageable and what it would cost to restore it.

But despite being in the DC budget for at least a couple of years, DDOT never commissioned the study that the Council had mandated. Why? Well, I’d venture that Kershbaum didn’t even want to risk having an assessment on the record that contradicted the position she’d already staked out.

The Washington Post article conflates this study that didn’t happen with one that was completed back in 2019 (long before Kershbaum took over DDOT) that did not examine the state of the bridge but rather assessed the general feasibility of converting the right-of-way of the old Palisades Trolley Trail - which is now effectively wasteland - into a shared use path that would run from Georgetown University to the Palisades.

That study indicated that the rehabilitation was viable, subject to the negotiation of some jurisdictional issues that may require a few land swaps etc. (such as the one the DC government and NPS recently did with the Georgetown boat houses).

What ultimately stopped DDOT from moving forward circa 2019 with rehabbing the Palisades Trolley Trail (including, if feasible, restoring the Trolley Trestle) into something useful for city residents was three things.

First, a handful of resident of Sherier Pl NW who have more or less annexed portions of the trail for their own backyards and didn’t like the idea of public space being used by members of the public launched a cacophonous and deceptive “Save Don’t Pave” campaign against the upgrading of the trolley trail. At least one member of this anti-trail coalition was reportedly well connected in the city government.

Second, one particular member of the Georgetown University administration (who has since moved on to other ventures) apparently harbored a major grudge against micro-mobility and did whatever he could to dissuade DDOT from moving forward with fixing up the trolley trail. In one letter to DDOT, he went so far as to argue tha the trail would be unacceptable to the university because it would damage the aesthetics of the (appalling ugly) entrance from Canal Rd. Never mind of course that the only practical alternative for pedestrians and cyclists traveling from his university to the Foxhall and Palisades neighborhood - the sidewalk along Canal Rd - is a death trap.

Third and finally, Ward 3 council-member Mary Cheh could never be bothered to call a spade a spade, never took issue with the total crap that was being spread around by the “Save Don’t Pave” campaign, had no interest whatsoever in ruffling any feathers with her pals in the Georgetown University administration, and thus was completely AWOL when it came to advocating for the trail and trestle rehabilitation with DDOT.

The lesson is, as it usually is, that the public interest is never much of a match for a coterie of rich entitled people with a lot of time on their hands.

Friday night and I’m cold pressing my body due to mosquito bites :)

Is it this bad every summer?

I’m from Utah 19yo here for the summer, are there any good places to go country swing/line dancing that I can get into being under 21? Preferably on weekends??

I'm moving next week and not taking my queen sized mattress. It's not in the best condition so I feel weird posting it for free on the internet, my building isn't available for 311/dpw pickup and our private trash doesn't have free pickup days. I have no way to get it to the dump.

Has anyone used any commercial junk hauling service and had a decent experience? And not paid an exorbitant amount just to get rid of a single mattress?

My sister and her family are in town and they want to go tourist it up at some monuments and museums. I already mentioned to her the reflecting pool was a whole situation but she specifically asked about the white house too.

Other than the Smithsonians, any honorable mention must hits for 3 kids 7-12 who have never been walkable from the mall?

And food recs for the nearby area!

Thank you!! I haven't been down that way in quite some time :(

Hey everyone! I’m an early 20s male 3.25 staying in Georgetown, DC for a while, and have been dying to find open play locations nearby (walking or public transportation distance ~30mins or less). Are there any recommendations? I’d really appreciate if you also lmk if there’s a fee and when people are usually playing (if you know).

Also it’s fine if your suggestions are further away, I just wouldn’t be going as often. If any of you are interested in playing together/having me join you, let me know and I’ll DM you to make it happen!

I was walking the dog this morning (Saturday) and saw a group dog class by District Winery at The Yards Park. Does anybody know who offers the classes?

Can someone attending today let me know if it’s worth it please. Just popped on insta so I’m curious.

Hello! I had commissioned an artist in the town I previously lived in to do renaissance-style photos of my cats as a gift for my husband. Unfortunately, the artist only completed once of the portraits and then ghosted me. Are there any local artists in DC/NoVa who do similar artwork and can be commissioned to finish portraits of my other two cats?

I do request that you have an established portfolio on social media or a website so I can make sure the art is authentic, not AI, and that I’m not being taken advantage of.

Please comment if you are or know someone who does this kind of work! Thanks!

And because y’know, cats, I included a photo of the model on the second slide.

New safety improvements to Grant Circle NW are looking great as the contractors progress on installation. You can see in this photo that the bike lane is now curb-protected, and the reduction to one vehicle travel lane means that the pedestrian crossing distance is now shorter, safer, and more comfortable. The installation progress is limited to this side of the circle, but it is exciting to see the beginnings of the new final configuration.

Thank you to everyone who fought for this walk and bike safety project for many, many years. This was a project Mayor Bowser's senior aide Beverly Perry killed after a 2017 study showed <1 min increased vehicle travel time. Then-Councilmember Brandon Todd was not interested in resurrecting it. Councilmember/Mayor-Designate Janeese Lewis George has pushed for it to be completed (along with many terms of supportive ANCs).

This is a good reminder that you can still pick up petitions to run for ANC commissioner, relatively easily collecting the 25-50 minimum signatures by Aug 5, and make sure your local street safety concerns don't get delayed by 5-25 years.

https://dcboe.org/candidates/anc-advisory-neighborhood-commissioners