🚗 New traffic fines coming Monday

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Stay in Your Lane!

Starting Monday, drivers in D.C. will be fined $100 for illegally driving, parking, standing, or stopping in bus lanes. Enforcement has been delayed for months as DDOT “finalized operations.” They’ll use bus cameras to track down offenders. WMATA says that enforcement will improve service and speed up transit times. [City Cast DC 🎧]

Stolen Funds Returned To GALA

Citibank has returned the $250,000 GALA Hispanic Theatre lost in a defrauding earlier this month. The theater worried that it could take months to have the funds returned and crowdfunded over $48,000 to stay afloat. [DCist]

City to Survey Houselessness

D.C. will conduct a point-in-time count this Wednesday evening to determine how many people are living on the street and in emergency shelters. Last year's count showed an 18% increase in houselessness from 2022. The survey is conducted once a year and is used to determine if social services are being properly deployed. [DCist]

What To Do

DC Insider Trivia

Let’s start with last week’s question:

In 1922, Washington D.C. got its largest snowfall on record. How many inches did we get?

1. 8 inches
2. 14 inches
3. 28 inches
4. 41 inches

On July 27, 1922, D.C. got an unprecedented 28 inches of snowfall with snow drifts as high as 16 feet. The storm caused the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater to collapse, triggering one of the deadliest accidents in D.C.’s history. It killed 98 people and injured another 133.

The Knickerbocker – located at 18th Street NW and Columbia Road NW in Adams Morgan – was the most luxurious theater in the city at the time. It is now a small plaza that you would never guess was the site of a D.C. tragedy.

While this is the biggest snowstorm D.C. has seen since official record-keeping began, the diaries of Washington and Jefferson both note a storm in 1772 that left 36 inches of snow in the DMV!

🏅 Congratulations to Hey DC readers Danyelle H., Yhoselin G., and Monica P. for being the first three to get the question right!

Now, for this week's trivia:

Rock Creek Park is over twice the size of Central Park, but exactly how big is it?

1. 215 acres
2. 852 acres
3. 1,754 acres
4. 2,344 acres

Today on City Cast

D.C.'s 100 Best Restaurants, Bus Lane Fines, and City Harassment Probe

Washingtonian food critic Ann Limpert spills the process behind the magazine's 100 Best Restaurants list. Plus, we’re talking bus lane enforcement. And there’s an update on the sexual harassment investigation in the mayor’s office.