Posts by Matt Johnson — Editorial Board Alum
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Here’s how DC’s state-named avenues got their names
Earlier in the summer, we re-visited the reasoning behind why Washington, DC’s street naming system. From A Street to Verbena Street and from Half to Sixty-Third, DC’s lettered and numbered streets make it difficult to get lost with their logical progressions. But DC’s transverse diagonal avenues confound everyone from tourists to suburban motorists. Keep reading…
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Here are the answers to whichWMATA week 90
On Tuesday, we featured the ninetieth challenge to see how well you knew the Metro system. Here are the answers. How’d you do? This week, we got 27 guesses. Nine of you got all five. Great work, Peter K, J-Train-21, Stephen C, Solomon, AlexC, JamesDCane, dpod, Travis Maiers, and We Will Crush Peter K! Keep reading…
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Think you know Metro? It’s whichWMATA week 90
It’s time for the ninetieth installment of our weekly “whichWMATA” series! Below are photos of 5 stations in the Washington Metro system. Can you identify each from its picture? Keep reading…
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Here are the answers to whichWMATA week 89
On Tuesday, we posted our eighty-ninth challenge to see how well you knew Metro. I took photos of five Metro stations. Here are the answers. How well did you do? This week, we got 35 guesses. Nine got all five correct. Great work, Peter K, JamesDCane, Travis Maiers, AlexC, Solomon, PLKDC, Stephen C, dpod, and We Will Crush Peter K! Keep reading…
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Think you know Metro? It’s whichWMATA week 89
It’s time for the eighty-ninth installment of our weekly “whichWMATA” series! Below are photos of 5 stations in the Washington Metro system. Can you identify each from its picture? Keep reading…
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Here are the answers to whichWMATA week 88
On Tuesday, we posted our eighty-eighth challenge to see how well you knew Metro. I took photos of five Metro stations. Here are the answers. How well did you do? This week, we got 27 guesses. Eleven got all five right. Great work, Peter K, JamesDCane, Stephen C, Solomon, J-Train-21, Justin…, AlexC, RBAP, Ampersand, dpod, and We Will Crush Peter K! Keep reading…
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Think you know Metro? It’s whichWMATA week 88
It’s time for the eighty-eighth installment of our weekly “whichWMATA” series! Below are photos of 5 stations in the Washington Metro system. Can you identify each from its picture? Keep reading…
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Trump claims to want to save our cities, but his and his party’s policies would do the opposite
On Thursday, I turned on the TV to hear from the Republican nominee for President. As an urbanist, I was particularly struck by Donald Trump saying he’s the candidate who can save failing cities. That’s ironic given that he seems to loathe most of the people in cities, and his party convention approved the most anti-urban policy platform in recent memory. —> This… Keep reading…
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Here are the answers to whichWMATA week 87
On Tuesday, we posted our eighty-seventh challenge to see how well you knew Metro. We featured photos of five Metro stations taken by Peter K. Here are the answers. How well did you do? This week, we got 34 guesses. Sixteen got all five. Great work, Matt D, JamesDCane, RyanS, Justin…, Josh, Gregory Koch, dpod, Transport., DavidDuck, Alex C, Stephen C, J-Train-21, Solomon,… Keep reading…
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Think you know Metro? It’s whichWMATA week 87
It’s time for the eighty-seventh installment of our weekly “whichWMATA” series! Below are photos of 5 stations in the Washington Metro system. Can you identify each from its picture? This week, all 5 photos were submitted by whichWMATA regular Peter K. Keep reading…