Posts about Maryland
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The DC region has over 250 miles of planned light rail, streetcar, & BRT
What do you get when you plot onto a single map every known light rail, streetcar, and BRT plan in the DC region? One heck of a huge transit network, is what. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bridge and tunnel crowd
Darkness at end of the tunnel; Build your own bridge; Rework track work; Metro for cars?; Turn it on; Lots of benefits; Don’t tread on my transit; Not a bike mecca any more?; And…. Keep reading…
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Purple Line meets a stone wall in Chevy Chase
While Chevy Chase spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby against the Purple Line, town officials are demanding over $1,000 to provide documents about their campaign. Meanwhile, they’ve asked Maryland to waive fees for their own information request. When the Action Committee for Transit filed requests under Maryland’s Public Information Act, the… Keep reading…
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Events roundup: Walk and hack around Washington
Enjoy the warm weather and learn about area history at events this month. Over the next two weeks, hear about how to plan great communities, help make Montgomery even greater, and hack on tools to help people understand DC laws. Walking tours: The Coalition for Smarter Growth is leading three more Saturday walking tours over the next month: Twinbrook, on May 17; Pentagon City,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where to live?
Where the rent isn’t too high; Affordable housing aids other goals; Microunits show fancy face; Some Virginians vote Tuesday; From Fred Flintstone to mixed-use; App data also helps planners; Wind turbines’ impacts cause delays; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning bell: Changes in DC schools over the past decade, and what the future may hold
How DC’s growth is changing schools: No surprises, but a lot of interesting data and cool interactives on changing demographics and the growth of charters. The City Paper’s Aaron Wiener hits the highlights. (Urban Institute) Can DC lead the way to a better future?: The District may be able to model a way forward in reimagining education, says blogger Sam Chaltain,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s a public good?
Taking what’s not his; Omnipresent Internet; Parking for the people?; The rent is too high; But millennials are still coming; No gun necessary, use your car; Criminalized bike commute; Feelings getting in the way?; Red line woes; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Making waves
High water; It’s electric; Ridesharing companies fight regs; Mo’ concrete mo’ problems; Public housing delayed; DC General closing?; See the schools change; Many Marylanders would move; And…. Keep reading…
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Sprawl-inducing M-83 highway gets thumbs down from Montgomery County Executive
Last Thursday, Montgomery County transportation director Art Holmes told the County Council that County Executive Ike Leggett does not favor building the M-83 “Mid-County Highway Extended” highway project. This could be an important signal that the outdated project, which would take hundreds of millions of dollars from transit projects and incentivize more… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: So much transportation
Streetcar to National Harbor?; Tolls for interstates?; Already raising fares?; Train bridge banished; Columbia yesterday and today; Struggles for suburban office markets; Google congestion pricing?; And…. Keep reading…