Posts from July 2012
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Breakfast links: Heating up
Heat slows Metro; Pay by phone at 2 Metro lots; Wells wants to cut camera fines; Wards 5 and 8 get largest slice of the pie; Long commutes contain sprawl; Seattle plans for more, quicker density; Syracuse wants to lose “Berlin Wall”; And…. Keep reading…
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Clarendon Whole Foods pays customers to drive
Earlier this month, the Clarendon Whole Foods kicked off a new weekly food and wine event. If you drive and park in the Pottery Barn garage across the street, you get a $1 discount on the $5 cost. Anyone else, including those who walk, bike or take transit to the store, pays full price. At first, I thought the discount was designed to offset customers’ cost of parking in the Pottery… Keep reading…
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One City plan sets ambitious goals, and some feebler ones
Mayor Gray released a “One City Action Plan,” a year in the making, which lays out goals and objectives for his administration across almost many areas. It pushes for serious and challenging improvements in education, while in other areas such as transportation, it doesn’t reach as high. Education Education has always been a top priority for Mayor Gray,… Keep reading…
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Amtrak makes no little plans with Union Station vision
Yesterday, Amtrak released a master plan to guide Union Station’s growth over the next several decades. The ambitious proposal includes several key components that will make the station easier to use, increase its capacity, and ensure a strong foundation for the transportation center. It’s somewhat fitting that this ambitious plan is attached to Union Station. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More, more, more
More night buses, please; VRE gets stuffed; Hoyer hates commuter tax; Big box can be urban, or not; No transit is more dangerous; Standards hamper New Haven; Sunroof for the subway?; And…. Keep reading…
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Amtrak & Akridge imagine the future of Union Station
Union Station is a beautiful building with one of Washington’s grandest halls, but almost none of the original building actually serves train travel, and it’s isolated from pedestrians in several directions. Amtrak hopes to change that one day, as does Akridge, the developer with rights to build over the railyards to the north. Today, they released an imaginative… Keep reading…
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Silver Spring’s Flower Theatre could bloom once again
For decades, the Flower Theatre in Silver Spring’s Long Branch neighborhood entertained generations of residents eager to see the latest films. In recent years, however, the Art Deco-style movie house has sat vacant and may need substantial funding to be usable again. How can we bring the Flower Theatre back to life? On Saturday, August 4 from 10-1, we’ll explore… Keep reading…
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Instead of projecting traffic, reduce our dependence on it
We spend billions every year in this country on our transportation network, large percentages of it based on traffic projections. This despite the fact that we have a long record of not being able to accurately project traffic. The answer isn’t better projections but a better transportation system, one that is robust to modeling error. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Share more
Car2go to expand; Fort Worth to share bikes; Paris bike share turns five; St. Elizabeths open to public; McDuffie fights car barn; WMATA upgrades Maryland bus stops; And…. Keep reading…
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“Transit-oriented” development plans are meaningless without transit
In Clarksburg’s Master Plan, the Montgomery County town is a transit-oriented community. But in reality, Clarksburg is a transit-lacking community, because the county government has not supported transit. Construction has begun in Cabin Branch, Clarksburg’s first development west of I-270. Cabin Branch is 535 acres approved for 1,886 houses, 500 senior… Keep reading…