Chris Slatt
@alongthepike.com
Transpo-nerd, Software-geek, & Columbia Pike Cheerleader. Former Arlington Transportation Commission Chair. Sustainable Mobility for Arlington Founder [He/Him]
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Chris Slatt
@alongthepike.com
· Dec 12
Ladies and Gentlemen, I FOIA'd the full list of submitted Arlington Plow names so that you don't have to. Some highlights that didn't make the official list, in roughly alphabetical order: 🧵👇🏻
Save the Date: National Landing Garage Races Saturday 2/21/2026
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Save the Date: National Landing Garage Races Saturday 2/21/2026
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To allow work on the new Long Bridge project, beginning in January, VRE will significantly alter its schedule through 2030. No trips are being eliminated but mid-day trips (8:15 am–1:00 pm, MON-SAT) will terminate or originate in Alexandria, not DC.
Details: vrevip.squarespace.com/blog/how-to-...
Details: vrevip.squarespace.com/blog/how-to-...
How to Prepare for Schedule Changes — VRE | Very Important Passenger
What VRE Riders Need to Know
vrevip.squarespace.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
To allow work on the new Long Bridge project, beginning in January, VRE will significantly alter its schedule through 2030. No trips are being eliminated but mid-day trips (8:15 am–1:00 pm, MON-SAT) will terminate or originate in Alexandria, not DC.
Details: vrevip.squarespace.com/blog/how-to-...
Details: vrevip.squarespace.com/blog/how-to-...
Hallelujah, @arlingtondes.bsky.social is here to light our darkest hour. Bring on the plow name puns, people!
Back for another Arlington winter: Name That Plow hysteria. Hopefully not the snow. www.arlingtonva.us/About-Arling...
November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hallelujah, @arlingtondes.bsky.social is here to light our darkest hour. Bring on the plow name puns, people!
In case you need a pick-me-up this morning. mcmansionhell.com/post/8002175...
chud atlantis
Hello everyone, sorry to go so long without posting something. I caught covid in August and it's taken me months to start feeling relatively back to normal. I am still struggling with fatigue and some...
mcmansionhell.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In case you need a pick-me-up this morning. mcmansionhell.com/post/8002175...
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🚨🚨LAST CHANCE! (Deadline: TODAY 11/16)🚨🚨
Choose Your Own Adventure: for a more inclusive, sustainable, diverse, and car-optional Arlington, click our Action Alert and take action today!
Choose Your Own Adventure: for a more inclusive, sustainable, diverse, and car-optional Arlington, click our Action Alert and take action today!
Arlington2050: Updating Arlington's Comprehensive Plan
Arlington is updating its Comprehensive Plan, its long-range plan for livability and what the community wants to look like in the future. This is a big-picture document, and your opportunity to shape how Arlington grows and develops over the next generation.
Join us to call on the County Board to create a Vibrant, Diverse, Sustainable, and Inclusive Arlington where housing is abundant and nobody has to depend on a car!
susmo.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🚨🚨LAST CHANCE! (Deadline: TODAY 11/16)🚨🚨
Choose Your Own Adventure: for a more inclusive, sustainable, diverse, and car-optional Arlington, click our Action Alert and take action today!
Choose Your Own Adventure: for a more inclusive, sustainable, diverse, and car-optional Arlington, click our Action Alert and take action today!
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“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
www.fastcompany.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
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“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
EU Must Cap SUV Hood Heights Urges Report. Crash Test Body Says Not As Simple As That
Higher fronts on cars significantly increase the death rate when pedestrians and cyclists are struck, says new report. EuroNCAP says more complex than that.
www.forbes.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
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I’m grateful to everyone who came out to support me at the Dirksen courthouse as I, alongside five others, fight unjust federal charges in defense of our First Amendment right to peacefully protest.
For those asking how else they can support, please consider contributing to my legal defense fund.
For those asking how else they can support, please consider contributing to my legal defense fund.
Brian Straw Legal Defense Fund
Together, we can show our neighbors, friends, and children that we have the courage to do what is right.
secure.actblue.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I’m grateful to everyone who came out to support me at the Dirksen courthouse as I, alongside five others, fight unjust federal charges in defense of our First Amendment right to peacefully protest.
For those asking how else they can support, please consider contributing to my legal defense fund.
For those asking how else they can support, please consider contributing to my legal defense fund.
Friday's forecast: 50s and Sunny. Come on out, meet some folks, make a difference.
Get out of the house, enjoy some Fall weather, and make an IMPACT at Impact Happy Hour! We'll be at the National Landing Water Park this Fri 11/14 from 5-7pm - we'll drink, chat, and TAKE ACTION to improve car-free mobility in Arlington. Hope to see you!
RSVP to Impact Happy Hour
Join us for Impact Happy Hour, this Friday November 11th from 5pm-7pm at the National Landing Water Park. It'll be a chill, social hang-out and a chance to take some time to give feedback at the Arlington's Transportation Future Pop-up as well as take action on the important Action Alerts currently accepting feedback! Dress for the weather, we'll be outside!
susmo.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Friday's forecast: 50s and Sunny. Come on out, meet some folks, make a difference.
If you've ever been like "Is this bike lane ever going to connect to anything?" Now's your chance to both find out, and influence the answer!
Will Arlington's Future Bike Network get you where you need to go, when you need to get there? Check it out and weigh in at next Saturday's Open House, or online anytime before 12/7!
Arlington's Transportation Future: Phase 3
The process to rewrite Arlington's Transportation Plan has reached Phase 3; we've moved out of the more esoteric visioning and goals, and into concrete plans for modal networks, curb-space priorities, and policies. If you've been checked out, now's the time to check in! Don't worry - we've got suggested feedback to get you started!
susmo.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
If you've ever been like "Is this bike lane ever going to connect to anything?" Now's your chance to both find out, and influence the answer!
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Doctor's Run Park is a community gathering space, volleyball venue, playground, and also an important transportation connection for those walking, biking, and scooting. Speak up for the importance of the trail and path connections through the park!
Doctor's Run Park: Both Journey and Destination
Doctor's Run is an important park. It's a community gathering space, picnic area, volleyball venue, playground, and it's also an important transportation connection for those walking, biking, and scooting. The existing trail through Doctor's Run Park is part of the 12th St S Bicycle Boulevard, providing a safe place for people to bike & scoot parallel to Columbia Pike, and an important route for students at Randolph Elementary. As the Barcroft Apartments grow and evolve under their new ownership, this connection will only become more important.
Speak up for the importance of the trail and path connections through the Park (and make sure the updated playground is great while you're at it). The existing trail is too steep, too windy, too narrow, has several steep drop-offs, and does not connect to 12th Rd S, which is the planned route for the bicycle boulevard extension through Barcroft. The renovation completely fails to connect the updated amenities to the existing trail making access very circuitous for families with strollers or kids on bikes!
susmo.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Doctor's Run Park is a community gathering space, volleyball venue, playground, and also an important transportation connection for those walking, biking, and scooting. Speak up for the importance of the trail and path connections through the park!
Reposted by Chris Slatt
Phase 3 of Arlington's Transportation Future is in full swing and it involves concrete decisions about where people will walk, bike, and take transit. Make sure they work for you! Come to the Open House or fill out the online form!
Arlington's Transportation Future: Phase 3
The process to rewrite Arlington's Transportation Plan has reached Phase 3; we've moved out of the more esoteric visioning and goals, and into concrete plans for modal networks, curb-space priorities, and policies. If you've been checked out, now's the time to check in! Don't worry - we've got suggested feedback to get you started!
susmo.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Phase 3 of Arlington's Transportation Future is in full swing and it involves concrete decisions about where people will walk, bike, and take transit. Make sure they work for you! Come to the Open House or fill out the online form!
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@markwarner.bsky.social I hope you don't bend to the Rs and you don't let @kaine.senate.gov either - make them bend the knee!
It’s unbelievable that we’re in the longest shutdown in HISTORY… and Donald Trump is still too scared of Democrats to work out a deal and prevent huge premium increases for millions.
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
@markwarner.bsky.social I hope you don't bend to the Rs and you don't let @kaine.senate.gov either - make them bend the knee!
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Today at the Bozman Government Center, 4-7pm: Open house to help set the direction of Arlington's Transportation Future, the big refreshed plan for the next two decades. www.arlingtonva.us/Government/P...
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Today at the Bozman Government Center, 4-7pm: Open house to help set the direction of Arlington's Transportation Future, the big refreshed plan for the next two decades. www.arlingtonva.us/Government/P...
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Jose Andres Group continuing free weekday lunch for Feds at China Chilcano (no longer at Jaleo, Zaytinya, or Oyamel)
(expecting a lot of folks not to get the word this week and show up disappointed)
(expecting a lot of folks not to get the word this week and show up disappointed)
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Jose Andres Group continuing free weekday lunch for Feds at China Chilcano (no longer at Jaleo, Zaytinya, or Oyamel)
(expecting a lot of folks not to get the word this week and show up disappointed)
(expecting a lot of folks not to get the word this week and show up disappointed)
Reposted by Chris Slatt
Help us raise money to replace 7 aging and damaged picnic tables along the Mount Vernon Trail. These tables provide much-needed rest stops and gathering spaces for walkers, runners, and cyclists enjoying one of Arlington's most popular outdoor destinations.
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Help us raise money to replace 7 aging and damaged picnic tables along the Mount Vernon Trail. These tables provide much-needed rest stops and gathering spaces for walkers, runners, and cyclists enjoying one of Arlington's most popular outdoor destinations.
Pro Tip: trash cans make great traffic calming on Halloween (or any other night).
October 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Pro Tip: trash cans make great traffic calming on Halloween (or any other night).
Army Navy Drive bike lane is open!
October 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Army Navy Drive bike lane is open!
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“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
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The reason why you don't allow a president to unilaterally decide tariff rates according to his whims is so we don't end up with mad king shit like this.
October 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The reason why you don't allow a president to unilaterally decide tariff rates according to his whims is so we don't end up with mad king shit like this.
Pro Tip: there are bike racks inside the main level Penrose Square garage that you can reach with a Giant grocery cart without locking its wheels. Go down the ramp from 9th St and turn right.
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Pro Tip: there are bike racks inside the main level Penrose Square garage that you can reach with a Giant grocery cart without locking its wheels. Go down the ramp from 9th St and turn right.
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Reposted by Chris Slatt
October 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM