Posts about District of Columbia
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Breakfast links: Spotlight on roads
PG residents want brighter roads; SHA trying darker roads; Bad bills and bad Senators who support them; Money’s for roads, but he wants control of Metro; Maryland needs new crosswalk strategy; Gray, Brown ride $2,000/month SUVs; Talking transit, taxes and election tactics; National Harbor to add gas station; And…. Keep reading…
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Why all the wailing over the Union Station railyard project?
The Committee of 100, Capitol Hill Restoration Society, and other groups which habitually oppose things in DC have been fighting the project over the Union Station railyards on the grounds that you will be able to see the building over historic Union Station. Lydia DePillis was at the recent Zoning Commission hearing. She quotes CHRS/C100 member Monte Edwards calling Union… Keep reading…
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A DC United stadium is likely to be truly urban
Last week, Erik posted that DC United is in discussions about small sites in the District for a 20-25,000 seat soccer stadium. The constraints of both Buzzard Point and the Florida Market sites guarantee that the stadium would be a celebrated urban stadium rather than a mini-FedEx Field. In February 2009, I outlined characteristics of a successful urban stadium. Either… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taking charge
Sarles officially announced as GM, CEO; Can PG focus on Metro stations?; Watergate residents don’t want trees; ANC opposes bike lane, says bikes complicate driving; Missed opportunities in Fairfax City?; More people shouldn’t mean more highways; Green house, not so green location; Take transit or bikeshare to visit Miami Beach’s new parking garage; And…. Keep reading…
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Truxton Circle school and youth housing in doubt
A proposal from two local nonprofits to turn a vacant school building in the Truxton Circle neighborhood into a unique charter school could die unless the DC Council votes on Feb. 1 to approve the building’s disposition. One unique aspect to the project is that it will include 20 housing units for selected at-risk young people. The plan has raised ire from neighbors… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Different views on buildings
MLK library not so bad?; Brooks’ a part of Brookland evolution; Cyclist loses driver license for getting hit by driver; Walking to school at all-time low; Safety bills die, sprawl bills advance in VA; Back to the future on H Street NE; DC gap $600 million; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: No respect in Congress
Conservatives want cuts to transit, DC; Top transportation Democrat a roads guy; Armed robbery on Metro last month; Gray makes DMPED pick & others; News from the Walmart front; Hit and runs in the region; Kenilworth Ave to get sidewalks, bike lanes; Arlington improves traffic signal network; And…. Keep reading…
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Glover Park organizes neighborhood snow shovel team
Last month, DDOT and DPW asked residents whether they had organized their neighborhood snow shoveling teams. In the snow announcement, then-DDOT Director Gabe Klein specifically mentioned elderly and disabled residents who may need assistance with accumulated ice or snow. It’s worthwhile to examine the activities that one specific neighborhood, Glover Park, undertook… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The election looms large
Weaver running for at-large, Klein passes; Special election polling places not so convenient?; Who’s responsible for local schools?; Is Congress Heights really in?; Get involved in Purple Line planning; New Tenleytown library opens Monday; Washington traffic tied for worst in US; An art truck?; And…. Keep reading…
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Streetscape-draining front parking lots may soon be out
Proposed zoning rules that require putting parking spaces to the side of or behind a building, instead of in front, may become law this year, perhaps quickly enough to influence some big box store plans that are in the works. New developments that put their parking in front significantly diminish the pedestrian environment. They also make it less appealing for other, adjacent… Keep reading…