Posts about Virginia
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Breakfast links: New ways to live and move
Uber takes a taxi; Babe’s gets the nod; Bike to Obama; A national VMT tax?; Call them the Washington Deforesters; Will school closings save money?; An affordable little neighborhood; “Embarrassing” anti-dooring law?; And…. Keep reading…
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Like a big city, Tysons will be a transit hub
Tysons Corner has more office space than downtown Baltimore, Richmond, and Norfolk put together. It should be the center its own large transit network. The Silver Line and express buses on the Beltway HOT lanes are good first steps, but in the long run Tysons is going to need more routes, connecting it to more places. In the long run, Tysons needs something more like this:… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pray
Tax break for empty church land?; Washington’s boom, poorly explained; Tysons gets buses; More condos are bad, say condo owners; Suburban officials criticize DC; Tide turning on driver responsibility?; Metrohenge Dupont is today; Amtrak eyes new bridge and tunnel; And…. Keep reading…
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“Real doors” give human scale to large apartment buildings
Houses have their perks: a yard, a private entrance, and a sense of individuality. Apartments have theirs as well: they’re affordable, low-maintenance, and have lots of shared amenities. What if you could get best of both worlds? Apartment communities being built in the area are doing just that with something called “real doors.”… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Alternatives
The other approach to the gas tax; Yet another way to fund transit; Traffic and pedestrian deaths hit new low; Rents go down?; Up in the sky, it’s a Purple Line station!; The future of car sharing; Where to grow; Parking plugs Pgh project. Keep reading…
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Many unsung heroes made Capital Bikeshare a reality
Capital Bikeshare has been gaining national attention as a pioneer in bringing bicycle sharing to the United States. It’s still the nation’s largest system, until New York and Chicago join, and being in the nation’s capital, forms a very visible symbol for national and international visitors. On Monday, Slate delved into the history of DC’s bike… Keep reading…
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McDonnell’s insane transportation plan: no gas tax
We knew there would be some nutty proposals in the Virginia legislature this year, and some serious attempts to fix transportation funding, but Governor Bob McDonnell managed to stun everyone yesterday with a real doozy: eliminate the gas tax entirely. Seriously. Virginia sorely needs money for transportation. While McDonnell is borrowing $3 billion from the future to fund… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Don’t pay more
No Metro fare hike; Trump doesn’t want to pay; Nathan would block referendum; Bike to walkable suburban districts?; Short blocks cut small city traffic; Inauguration closes bridges, stations; O’Malley wants more and cooler schools; One way to higher VA gas tax?; And…. Keep reading…
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Small steps can help bicycling in Virginia
The Virginia legislature is gearing up for its annual session. Each year is an opportunity for the legislature to fix some of the ways state law fails to provide even some of the most basic protections for cyclists, protections which exist in most other states. For example, Virginia has no law requiring drivers to “exercise due care to avoid colliding with a pedestrian or… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Whether to build it
Tysons trees safe?; TOD for New Carrollton?; No bowling alley for Georgetown?; 2013 critical for Purple Line; Silver Spring parking more pricey; What’s changed in Ward 3; Market answers for urbanism; Thank lead for crime wave; And…. Keep reading…