Posts about District of Columbia
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Gray’s Ward 2 town hall sidesteps divisions
The warm reception given to expectant Mayor Vincent Gray at the Ward 2 Town Hall last night stood in stark contrast with the 27% Ward 2 support Gray received on Election Day. Ward 2 includes my particular Georgetown precinct which supported Gray’s opponent more than any other in DC. The event, held at Foundry United Methodist Church, was to have been 2 hours of discussion… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Smarter suburbs
Reston rising; An even better Frederick; Walter Reed is Metro-accessible; O’Malley, Ehrlich spar; VRE breaks own record; Live atop a church; Be nice, taxi drivers. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Percentage perspective
A tale of two cities; Car independence in DC; More stats and inequalities; Transportation service; Is Cato’s parking anti-free-market?; More sincere flattery; Sprawl, illustrated. Keep reading…
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Doctors’ Hospital, a “hotel for the sick”
It seems that as long as hospitals have been around, they’ve seemed dreary and depressing, or at times even unhealthful. The first DC hospital, for example, was a decidedly morbid place, opened at the Washington Asylum for indigents during a cholera epidemic in 1832. Medical practitioners have been trying for a long time to do better than that. One major step forward occurred… Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Lockwood, Gray, Walter Reed, McMillan Sand, Lincoln Park CaBi, retro bikes and much more
The next few weeks have copious opportunities to weigh in on the future of DC neighborhoods. Please consider attending some of them! Tonight alone has three great events competing for your time. The Coalition for Smarter Growth is hosting “transportation celebrity” Ian Lockwood for a talk tonight at NCPC, 401 9th Street, NW. Lockwood designed the Gilbert’s… Keep reading…
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Klein demands better plan for 14th & U
After reviewing the separate streetscape plans for 14th and U Streets, NW, DDOT Director Gabe Klein has asked the 14th Street project team to present a better plan for the key intersection of 14th and U that creates a more distinctive civic space. In deciding that this historic intersection will be designed by the 14th Street project team and not the U Street team, Klein is handing… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Local developers learning
Parking minimums can bring profit maximums; Scaling down with the Joneses; Health projects funded instead of BRAC; “Hipster Express” ties U Street, Brooklyn; Food fights; Not another Adams Morgan!; Drivers not behaving in bike lanes, so remove the lanes?; Sincerest form of flattery. Keep reading…
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Vacation behind missing Struck in DC tweets
There wasn’t a grand conspiracy behind DC Fire & EMS stopping tweeting pedestrians and cyclists struck; the employee who does it, Pete Piringer, was just on vacation. He said he does them whenever he notices one in the reports, but is working to make it more automatic. Sadly, the reports of pedestrians and cyclists struck have already resumed. Keep reading…
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Let’s convert Scott Circle into Scott Square
Scott Circle is the worst of downtown’s five main roundabouts. The roads are a hostile mess that pedestrians avoid at all costs, and the green spaces are chopped into such small and disconnected fragments that there’s not a useful park among them. There isn’t even a single marked crosswalk leading in to the circle itself. In its current form Scott Circle is… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cabinet shuffling
Rheesigning; Peck for City Administrator?; Road rash of crashes; VA liquor plan gets worse; Get yer historic DC maps; Ban stoplights?; And…. Keep reading…