Category: Safe Streets for Biking and Walking
Press Release: CSG and Montgomery for All share 2026 candidate responses on housing and growth
For the 2026 election cycle, the Coalition for Smarter Growth and Montgomery for All have compiled responses from registered candidates for Montgomery County Executive and County Council, offering insight into their positions on housing affordability, zoning, transit, biking, walking, and community engagement.
2026 Maryland General Assembly finale: Housing and transportation recap
Learn more about the progress that CSG and the state made in the 2026 session with your help.
Testimony: Support and recommendations improving Go Prince George’s (MD)
We applaud the Go Prince George’s plan for fully applying the 2023 DPW&T Urban Street Design Standards mandated by the County Council. But the plan could be even better.
Testimony: Support for Transportation Investment Priorities Act of 2026 (MD)
SB 62 will ensure Maryland’s transportation investments are aligned with state policy goals and that funding decisions are transparent and data driven.
Testimony: Support for Transportation and Climate Alignment Act of 2026 (MD)
The Transportation and Climate Alignment Act would advance cleaner and more affordable transportation options, while making smart use of our limited public dollars. SB 59 provides a toolkit to evaluate planned transportation investments early on, and, if needed, make improvements to them by giving communities more options to connect residents to jobs and services than driving, while providing accountability on the state’s climate goals.
MD 214 Pedestrian Safety Action Plan factsheet
Six lanes is too wide & risky for MD 214. The proposed concepts to address pedestrian safety on this segment of MD 214 are greatly disappointing and fall far short of meeting project goals.
Speak up for a more walkable, bikeable Braddock Road!
Alexandria wants to make Braddock Road safer for people walking and biking, including children walking and biking to school, and people connecting to Metro, area trails, retail and services. Please consider speaking up in support of these needed improvements.
Testimony on no turn on red in urban areas (MD)
We wish to express our support for HB 381 – No Turn on Red. Right Turn on Red prohibition in urban areas is a basic pedestrian safety rule. Safer streets for walking and biking are the foundation of successful main streets and downtowns.
Release: Northern Virginia Environmental and Active Transportation Groups welcome NOVA Parks and Dominion Energy agreement on tree cutting along W&OD Trail
The Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA), Sierra Club Great Falls Group, Nature Forward, Coalition for Smarter Growth, Fairfax Alliance for Better Bicycling and Fairfax Families for Safe Streets, as part of Fairfax Healthy Communities, are excited to see that NOVA Parks and Dominion have a new agreement to steward and restore the Washington & Old Dominion Trail’s natural resources, helping to ensure the trail remains a cherished open space for its nearly 3 million annual visitors.