Posts about Alexandria
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Breakfast links: Thinking about tomorrow
Avoid a DC shutdown; Why not Walmart; Burke wants calmer parkway; Express buses begin on ICC; College Park considering CaBi; Complaints do not equal failure; Biddle challenges opponents’ candidacies; Gray calls for deeper SUV investigation; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pandemonium
A crazy day in the Wilson Building; ANC 7B opposed to visible buildings; Students to get SmarTrip IDs; Alexandria ponders CaBi entry; Bus pickups move; How state DOTs are bad, like Virginia’s; Harriet on Kojo; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Failures of leadership
Will mayor, council face austerity?; MWAA has board problems, too; Straighter is not safer; ICC opens officially, real opening delayed; Alexandria unsure on new schools; Fairfax considers more mixed-use in Tysons; Where should WeBike?; DC will hurt if fed shuts down; And…. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Legislators taking action
Rosapape supports marriage equality; Protestors visit Boehner; Drinking? Sarles doesn’t want you; Ticer retiring; Evans pushes smoking; Iraq wants compensation for security walls; PAYD bill becomes PAYD anti-disclosure bill. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Growth in Virginia
Smart Growth a success in NoVa; Virginia growth strengthens urbanized areas; Stafford wants to use UDAs to accommodate growth; DC Council hears about bike and pedestrian safety; MetroAccess customers face fare hike; Eisenhower memorial could have been Education plaza; Snyder mad over parking revenue?; ARRA spending on new roads is “squadered” money; And…. Keep reading…
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Three years ago, GGW was born
Greater Greater Washington started publishing three years ago yesterday. What were we writing about then? Quite a few things that were still relevant today. Parking policy: Tommy Wells spoke at a Coalition for Smarter Growth forum about parking and how he himself became a convert on performance parking because of all the cars the baseball stadium was going to bring to his… Keep reading…
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Beauregard Corridor discusses benefits of walkable places
People who live near the Beauregard Corridor in Alexandria’s West End are concerned about the impact of the BRAC-133 project, and continuing long-term urbanization, on traffic, noise, pollution, and the character of their neighborhoods. After their disastrous experience with BRAC, which will bring about 6,400 Defense Department employees to the office buildings… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Finding flaws
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Alexandria anxious for Potomac Yard Metro in 2016
The Potomac Yard infill station in Alexandria is on track to open in 2016. It had better, because any delays could imperil Alexandria’s funding for the project. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is now underway, as required by law. As governments commonly do with EISes, they have launched a project website to disseminate information to the public. The EIS process… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Shoveling out news
Plowing priorities kill pedestrian; Throw a snowball, get throat cut; During the snow…; Sarles explains snow service decision; Sarles official, finalizes contract; Two very different House Republicans; Roads in urban areas safer; London neighborhood council “bans” cycling on path; And…. Keep reading…