Posts about Virginia
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Breakfast links: Plans for the future
Narrow here, wide there; Cycle track’s death greatly exaggerated; Sustainable politics; The future of Fairfax is smart growth; DASH gets bike racks; Sequester in the park; No longer in the zone?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Music to your ears
Go green; Bike safer; Don’t drive so close to me; Telephone line for safety; A blow to Costco gas; Imagine there’s no Metro; One day more; Life in the fast lane. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A rising tide
Vote again; Trinidad on the rise; Auction heats up; Drive people around for money; Where the bike crashes are; Where the jams are; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stay safe
Dangerous intersections; Bad scheduling kills door bill; Communication breakdown; Don’t play favorites; A very particular set of skills; Don’t dis Anacostia; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Oops
Contractor takes down wrong, historic tree; Multiple pedestrians die; Gas tax “compromise” emerges; Door freely, wear a helmet; FBI at Greenbelt has pluses for Metro; Performance loading?; Widening pressure never ends; Lauren Graham, cyclist; And…. Keep reading…
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Columbia Pike streetcar opponents deceive about “BRT”
A new organization is fighting the Columbia Pike streetcar in Arlington by showing a picture of a Bus Rapid Transit system that couldn’t possibly go on Columbia Pike. In response, another new group has formed to support the streetcar plan. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Will it happen in Virginia?
Gas tax likely will stay; Not a local income tax; FBI is for Franconia Building Imminent?; Ft. Myer gate closed at night; HOA goes off cliff over Obama sign; Tech will come before mixed-use at St. E’s; Corporations paying their due; And…. Keep reading…
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Men are from Rosslyn, women are from upper Northwest
Aimee Custis sent along a great map from Trulia, showing the ratio of single (straight) men to single (straight) women across the region: The Washington metropolitan area and “Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick,” which the Trulia data breaks out separately, have the nation’s highest ratio of women to men among the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan… Keep reading…
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WMATA might offer open data for all regional transit
WMATA planners helped STLTransit create an animation of transit across the entire Washington region. That’s possible because WMATA has a single data file with all regional agencies’ schedules. They hope to make that file public; that would fuel even more tools that aid the entire region. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Nowhere fast
Not so HOT revenue numbers; Not going anywhere; Gray on transportation; What to do with the CFO?; Next stop: Love; First fatal car crash; And…; Next subject: us!. Keep reading…