Archive for the ‘Five Favorites’ Category
Five Favorites: Reasons to Bike to Work
‘15th St bike lane in use’
courtesy of ‘nevermindtheend’
Bike to Work Day registration is now open, so mark your calendar for Friday, May 20! This awesome event, sponsored by WABA, is a great way to get your feet wet riding your bike around the city. At last year’s event, when I had just started out commuting [...]
Five Favorites: Tools for Getting Around DC
‘He matches the bus!!!’
courtesy of ‘fromcaliw/love’
We’ve come a long way from the days of highlighting a route on a paper map to get from Point A to Point B. And in a big city like Washington, there are so many ways to get around: walking, biking (your own or a shared bike), taking transit, driving, [...]
Five Favorites: Reasons to Leave the House
‘masked’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
It’s easy to just want to hibernate this time of year– it’s dark when you get home, it’s too cold to be outside for more than 10 minutes, and well, not much can compete with a warm couch and a Snuggie. And now that the holiday season is over, there aren’t as many [...]
Five Favorites: Staying Warm (and Bright)
‘churros and chocolate’courtesy of ‘timsnell’
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Five Favorites: Neighborhood Elements
‘Colors!’
courtesy of ‘kimberlyfaye’
For the past year and a half I wrote the Where We Live feature for We Love DC. Every edition would take me to another neighborhood in the city, where I’d talk to residents and find out what makes that neighborhood a great place to live. And while every neighborhood was different, and [...]
Five Favorites: Complete Streets
‘Mount Pleasant and National Baptist Church, Bike lane in foreground’
courtesy of ‘tedeytan’
Just this week, DDOT adopted a complete streets policy that encourages streets that accommodate all users– motorists, cyclists, pedestrians, and transit users. This marks a shift from the auto-centric planning that has long dominated transportation planning throughout the country. Even though DC is slightly [...]
Five Favorites: Vantage Points
‘DC’
courtesy of ‘alifayre’
Washington is a beautiful city, with its grand avenues and grid street system. But it’s hard to really absorb the beauty of the city from street level. Flying into Reagan National Airport offers great views of the city, and even the view from space is spectacular. But there are plenty of [...]
Five Favorites: Swimming Pools
‘Swim’
courtesy of ‘dansteeves68′
Here in DC, we’ve got a good thing going: all of the District’s swimming pools are free and open to DC residents. Other cities make you purchase pool passes or pay each time you go to a pool, but because of the “DC Free Swim” program sponsored by Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic [...]
Five Favorites: Bike Routes
‘Rounding the point’
courtesy of ‘randomduck’
Welcome to another edition of Five Favorites. This week we’ll be checking out bike routes in the District. Whether you’re a recreational weekend biker, a bike commuter, or a hard-core triathlete, DC’s bike routes have something to offer you. Here are our picks for the top five bike routes in the [...]
Five Favorites: Circles, Triangles, and Squares
‘Budding Tree’
courtesy of ‘FredoAlvarez’
DC has all sorts of weird land left over where the grid of street meets up with diagonal avenues. In many places, these intersections have been altered to create circles, triangles, and squares. Pierre L’Enfant originally envisioned these squares to be focal points of nearby neighborhoods, providing a place for [...]
Five Favorites: Metro Stations
‘Woodley Station’
courtesy of ‘Tyrannous’
Hi, and welcome to a new feature called Five Favorites. Our reader Jay suggested ranking favorite places in DC, and I’m going to start with five favorite Metro stations. These are stations that are the best examples of vibrant, walkable, urban, mixed-use places in the District. These are the Metro stations that [...]
