Posts about Maryland
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Breakfast links: transportation across the nation edition
Only in Portland? Hundreds of people gathered to tear up an underutilized parking lot and replace it with a community garden. Streetfilms created a video of the festivities. My favorite part is the dancers on stilts wielding giant jackhammers. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Kansas outdoes everyone else edition
Buy a Chrysler now, and lock in your destructive lifestyle! A great Tom the Dancing Bug satirizes Chrysler’s offer to lock in $2.99/gallon gas to new buyers. How long until they go bankrupt? Who cares! Since when did US automakers think about the future? Via Richard Layman. Keep reading…
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Our transportation priorities
BeyondDC wrote about the latest Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), released by MWCOG’s Transportation Planning Board. This summarizes all transportation projects through 2014 that the region’s governments have funded or plan to fund. Keep reading…
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Greater Baltimore & Washington Transit Future pocket version
I’ve created a new version of the Transit Future map, with some updates, at the request of Maryland PIRG. This version is smaller, without all the station names, so it’s easier to see everything at once. Click on the map for a bigger version. Keep reading…
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Donna Edwards: for better buses, against National Harbor
There’s a good profile of future MD-4 Congresswoman Donna Edwards in the Post. Edwards beat incumbent Al Wynn in the primary last spring, and is expected to win a special election Tuesday to finish the last few months of Wynn’s term. Keep reading…
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MoCoCo on library parking: is Don Praisner senile?
The Montgomery County Council is considering ending their subsidy of free parking at libraries which are located in town centers with paid parking. I’m watching the Council hearing on streaming video, and they just got to it. I’m liveblogging it below. Final update: The Council just voted 5-4 for an amendment which essentially guts the proposed resolution entirely. Keep reading…
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Weekend reading
“Not sexy”: Politicians aren’t yet embracing transit as the solution to high gas prices, but they will, argues Ryan Avent in Grist. Keep reading…
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Suburban sensibility in Silver Spring submission
Yesterday, I wrote about the historic preservation fight underway in Silver Spring as a developer seeks to add more housing right near downtown Silver Spring. There’s a strong dose of NIMBYism in the drive to landmark the existing Falkland Chase low-density apartments, but as commenter Dan Reed pointed out, there’s also a strong dose of bad design in the proposed redevelopment. Keep reading…
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Silver Spring taxidermy
Historic preservation can mean a lot of things. To some, it’s about keeping a vibrant, architecturally interesting neighborhood and ensuring pieces of a coherent whole aren’t ripped out indiscriminately. To others, it’s about maintaining a few significant pieces of notable architecture, like an art museum for buildings. And to some, it’s about stopping… Keep reading…
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Life, liberty and library parking
We expect to pay for our apartments, our clothes, and our transit rides. So why do many people start feeling as though our basic American values are threatened if parking isn’t free? Keep reading…