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Transportation

Since taking office, I have worked with residents and our ANCs to shepherd many transformational transportation projects, including the District’s first 24/7 protected bus and bike lanes, other bike and bus lanes, and improved pedestrian crossings.

I spearheaded the Adams Morgan Pedestrian Zone and Open Streets on Georgia Avenue, as well as a significant increase in funding for Safe Routes to School interventions.

I led the initiative to fund fourteen 24-hour bus routes across the District. Five of them service Ward 1.

Public safety takes many forms, including traffic safety. As chair of the committee that oversees the Department of Public Works, I’ve been working to strengthen parking enforcement and focus those efforts towards getting the most dangerous vehicles off of the road, with stronger authority to boot and tow vehicles, and better coordinate the use of technology, especially license plate readers.

I’ve introduced and supported legislation to block the sale of fake license plates at the source, and make it easier to boot and tow vehicles with fake and expired tags or excessive unpaid tickets.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The D.C. Council gave final approval Tuesday to legislation that will allow BIDs and other groups to pay for targeted parking enforcement in their neighborhoods.
Newly proposed legislation would protect ride-hailing app and taxi riders and others from bad actors, equalize the playing field for companies and operators, and give the District strong tools to investigate and enforce regulations against unlicensed and illegal operators.
Making our roads work for all users, not just cars, by prioritizing bus and bike lanes and safer crosswalks has long been a focus of mine, since I first took office as your Ward 1 Councilmember, and even before that, as a Ward 1 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner.
A D.C. Council oversight committee accepted a preliminary investigative report into controversial ride-hailing company Empower today, calling for legislation to clarify, once-and-for-all, that the way the company operates is illegal.
One allows immediate towing of vehicles with fake tags and obscured license plates; the other strengthens enforcement of food delivery vehicles.
Council member Brianne K. Nadeau (D-Ward 1), who oversees the [the Department of Public Works], says she has been trying to shift its priorities to bad drivers over bad parkers.
Empower is a ride-hailing company and must follow the rules of ride-hailing companies. What’s most important here is that riders and drivers will be protected from the unscrupulous practices of a business that thought it should be unaccountable to anyone.
"The public is rightfully outraged when they see a vehicle with fake license plates out on the street," said DC Council Member Brianne Nadeau, who introduced the Fraudulent Vehicle Tag and Parking Enforcement Modernization Amendment Act of 2024.
A key vote on Thursday moved forward legislation that would allow immediate towing and impoundment of vehicles with counterfeit or obscured license plates.
DDOT is installing bus and bike lanes and new bus platforms along Columbia Road from 16th Street to Connecticut Ave. The project improves bus service on one of the busiest stretches of road in the District. It will make clearer for all road users who should be where, and enhance safety for pedestrians and bicyclists.
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