Posts about Alexandria
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Breakfast links: Ouch
Charter driver hits Metrobus; Hello? Police?; The new new corridor; “Transportation” equals “roads” to AASHTO; Preston Bryant to chair NCPC; Making the east coast look bad; Hunting for better bicycling; A whale of a cake. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Scolding all around
Bad Apple; Bad planning; Bad anti-planning; Bad candidate; Bad parker; Good blogs; Good slate. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Still safer than driving, but how safe?
Another Metro fatality; Near-crash kept secret; Sidewalks: Prudent or fascist?; Feet in the Street really in the Park; Most prefer MARC to Hagerstown; Highways displace streetcars, again; Take me out on the water to the ballgame. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links II: Roads, rails and walls
Widening 270 is very bad for Baltimore; Yet another highway?; Game trains you to move cars above all; The people I used to be are ruining my neighborhood!; Riders not happy; Lynx links new riders to transit; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: In the east and the south
Greenmonston; Now the “rural until a developer shows interest” tier; MARC-oriented development at Bowie State; Not so minor; What are DDOT’s streetcar plans?; DCPL in the now; Then and now, overlaid; Atkins or South Beach road diet?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Same old, same old
Metro is more than just the train; ReadOn; Denser counties safer, motorcycling not; More stop sign tickets; A loophole and a sex-shop flounder; A fourth the parking; Advice to GOP: Be innovative, except in transportation?; Wonder Woman wins!. Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Meet Virginia
Walk Arlington; Bike the bridge; Plan VRE; Compare school redevelopment plans. Keep reading…
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Alexandria weighing Metro station alternatives
Alexandria is weighing five potential locations for a future Potomac Yard Metrorail station, along the Yellow and Blue Lines between National Airport and Braddock Road. The Potomac Yard section of Alexandria represents a huge opportunity for walkable, transit-oriented development right on a major Metro corridor. As presentations from the project team make clear, the potential… Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Shoup!
Donald Shoup, the “parking guru,” is coming to Alexandria and making a public presentation tomorrow. If you make it down to Alexandria for just one event this year, this is the one. In The High Cost of Free Parking, Shoup laid out the economic fallacies in underpricing parking, and popularized the concept of market-based performance parking which dedicates revenue… Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Shop, ride, talk, listen
Shop at Whole Foods and support CSG; Ride of Silence; Bloggers, residents talk; Talk back to MoCo; Later on. Keep reading…