Posts by George Kevin Jordan — Former Editor-in-Chief
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Events: Join the conversation about expansion plans for Union Station
Learn about the expansion of Union Station and Burnham Place, celebrate excellence in landscape architecture, hobnob with fellow urbanists at the Smart Growth Social, and more in urbanist events. Keep reading…
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At the DC Council’s Vision Zero hearing Thursday, residents plead for streets that don’t kill
On Thursday, the DC Council held a hearing about a slate of seven road safety bills that would, among other things, ban on right-on-red turns and lower speed limits to 20 mph throughout the city. Over more than eight hours, residents shared stories of loved ones injured and killed on DC roads, as well as their own crashes and close calls. Keep reading…
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The 74 bus line could extend service to Audi Field. But who will get lost along the way?
The 74 bus line, which runs between the Southwest Waterfront and the Convention Center, is already slow. It scored an F for headways and adherence to schedule from Metro Report Card, a report that unpacks how effective bus service is throughout the District. Now WMATA is proposing service changes that would extend the line to Audi Field through Buzzard Point. Keep reading…
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Here’s where pedestrians are dying in Prince George’s and Montgomery County
In Prince George’s County and Montgomery County’s pedestrian fatalities are on the rise. The number of pedestrian fatalities in PG county has steadily ticked up from 20 in 2015 to 27 by 2018, according to data from the Maryland Highway Safety Office and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. We mapped out the pedestrian deaths for 2019 to date. Keep reading…
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I strolled around Tysons with a walkability researcher. Here’s what he had to say.
Walkability is a big topic in Tysons, a census-designated place that was built around cars. The area has lofty goals in its comprehensive plan to transform from an “edge city” into an urban center, to employ an additional 200,000 people, and to add about 100,000 residents—while simultaneously decreasing the number of single-vehicle trips. Keep reading…
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To get cars off the road as it grows its workforce, Tysons gets into vanpooling
Every day, swaths of people commute into Tysons. Some take Metro and a handful bicycle, but the majority drive solo in an automobile. However, there’s another more eco-friendly mode that’s gaining traction: vanpooling. Keep reading…
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The art at Tysons’ Metro stations has both beauty and function
Public art not only adds beauty to a place, it can also help people orient themselves and find their way around. Tysons is no exception. As the city works on its 2050 goal to transform from “edge city” to urban center, art is key to building culture there, and to creating an environment that invites people to stay awhile. Keep reading…
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A 19-year-old dies in a traffic crash in Congress Heights
A 19-year-old man died Monday night after an SUV driver collided with him on his moped on the 2900 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE in Congress Heights, according to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Major Crash Investigations Unit. This street is known to be dangerous and has been the site of many crashes. Keep reading…
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After two decades of work, bike advocates celebrate a final link in a Vienna and Tysons-area trail network
A web of trails snake through the Vienna and Tysons area in northern Virginia, but for decades, they didn’t connect to each other, and people even found it difficult to get to area parks by foot or bicycle. Residents set about changing this with a slew of new sidewalks, trails, and bridges designed to link parks and trails into what became the Northern Vienna Trail Network. Keep reading…
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My ride east of the Anacostia shows the harsh realities for people bicycling
A small group of riders this past weekend adjusted our helmets, tested our bells, rode up and down several streets throughout Congress Heights, Anacostia and then through Navy Yard to see what was working for bicyclists east of the Anacostia, and what could be. Keep reading…