Posts about Montgomery
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Breakfast links: Safety on board
Guardian Angels upping Metro patrols; Safety issues on Metrobuses; Can the Mayor overrule HPRB?; Changing ways at Wilson Building?; CaBi posts impressive numbers; Make sure density helps all incomes; What it takes to save solar in DC; Giant globe may become giant baseball; And…. Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Biking west, retail/zoning north, buses east
There’s an important meeting about bike lanes on New Mexico Avenue tonight. Other upcoming meetings discuss retail on upper 14th Street, the Montgomery zoning rewrite, and buses east of the Anacostia River. Tonight, ANC 3D, which spans from American University to the Potomac River, will discuss several transportation and planning issues, including safety at Ward… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not easy being green
NPS rejects BikeDC; Leggett proposing bag fee; H Street NE gets new trees; Biddle challenges signatures, some oddly; Steps to govern DC; Legislative shenanigans; Buses up for cuts; NYC wrestles with tour buses; And…. Keep reading…
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How pedestrians “interfere with traffic”
Videographer Jay Mallin was outraged when Prince William County gave a man a ticket for “interfering with traffic” after he was hit trying to cross Route 1 in Woodbridge. He created this great video of how many of our suburban areas ignore the needs of people on foot: Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Development starting to roll
Leesburg is form-based; A better place to slug; Vacant building and gas station no more; Montgomery gets big projects, transit-oriented and not; Arlington is the healthiest; Car sharing gone from Wilson Building; Bill Nye, the high-speed rail guy. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Symbols of sprawl
Walmart reveals suburban site plan; ICC not (yet) causing sprawl; Kwame Brown insisted on “fully loaded” SUV; Get hit in PW, get a ticket; VA legislature has no time to hear from you; T is for trouble; Conservative columnist supports rail spending. Keep reading…
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Silver Spring construction shuts sidewalks, violating policy
Ongoing residential construction on three projects in Silver Spring needlessly closed sidewalks, forcing pedestrians to either navigate confusing, circuitous detours or to walk in the roadway. For neighbors, it’s been an ongoing nightmare. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Welcome changes?
The changing face of Montgomery suburbs; Can L’Enfant Plaza become an “ecodistrict”?; Cabbies like the thought of late-night cuts; Attempt to restore Metro funding fails; Montgomery council lists transportation priorities; Wolf, Latham want Silver Line audit; Connaugton on Virginia transportation issues; CaBi coming to Rosslyn in March; And…. Keep reading…
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Plan preserves Kensington’s assets while fixing its problems
For the past year, Kensington town councilmember Lydia Sullivan has been making fun of snobby suburbanites with Snoburbia, a T-shirt company and blog. But she’s not laughing at plans to allow redevelopment along a stretch of Connecticut Avenue that’s seen better days. Sullivan and some of her neighbors have written up a website, called KensingtonDevelopment.info,… Keep reading…
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WMATA Board ponders cutting late-night service
WMATA Board members, including federal representatives and new members from DC and Arlington, expressed a willingness to explore cutting back late-night weekend transit service at their meeting today. The tenor of the debate differed greatly from that of previous years, when Board members pushed hard against even the suggestion of such cuts. This move would save substantial… Keep reading…