Posts from September 2012
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Breakfast links: More gentrification?
Is Union Market gentrification?; The gentrification invasion; Riders’ freewill presents challenge; Inaccessible machines; Development school of thought; Opposition group of one; A councilmember in 73; WMATA not the only one; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend video: Bus ecstasy in Denmark
We mentioned this at the bottom of a Breakfast Links this week, but it’s worth highlighting more directly. This ad, for Denmark’s Midtraffik bus service, takes transit advertising to a new level: Keep reading…
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Urban hot spots by the Flickr pool and a CSG job opening
The Coalition for Smarter Growth is, well, growing! CSG is hiring a project manager to head up our new Next Generation of Transit campaign. Do you have a passion for advocacy, writing and making a difference in the Washington DC region? If so, consider applying to join our team. As CSG’s newest staff member, I can vouch first-hand that the Coalition for Smarter Growth is a… Keep reading…
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Harold Foster, longtime DC and Prince George’s planner, dies
Harold Foster, a fixture in Washington planning, died on September 4 following complications from hip replacement surgery. He was 62. Foster worked for the Prince George’s planning department for the last 18 years. Before that, he worked in transit planning for the DC government for more than 20 years. He was involved in promoting a streetcar vision for the District… Keep reading…
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Busboys & Poets not coming to Anacostia quite yet
Restaurateur Andy Shallal will not be bringing his Busboys & Poets franchise to Anacostia quite yet. Last night, Stan Voudrie, the landlord of the shuttered Uniontown Bar & Grill, told the Historic Anacostia Block Association he is considering 5 bids. Busboys “is not one of them.” Voudrie said he has shown the space to a number of experienced and… Keep reading…
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Landscape architects teach us about DC public spaces
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has created a great new website about the many public spaces in and around Washington, DC. Individual landscape architects took photos and wrote descriptions of each site’s key features. You can learn about public spaces you might not have even known about, or see familiar places through a landscape architect’s… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Under control
Cameras watch cameras; Metro making strides; No to resident-only parking; Frederick boosts sprawl; Transit vs. design?; Blazing a new trail; Fast enough?; And…. Keep reading…
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Ask GGW: What age is okay for kids to ride Metro alone?
Reader E.G. wrote in with this question: “As a thirteen year old in a suburb of DC, how do I convince my mom to let me ride the Metro alone?” A few years ago, New York journalist Lenore Skenazy let her 9-year-old son ride alone on the New York subway. She felt he was mature enough to handle it and that he was actually pretty safe. Many accused her of being a bad parent, while… Keep reading…
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Full steam ahead for suburban skyscrapers
Within the confines of the District of Columbia, the question of whether to allow tall buildings is a subject of much debate. But in the burgeoning urban centers of Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland, there is no question: more tall buildings are coming. For many decades Rosslyn has been home to the tallest skyscrapers in the Washington region. The taller of its Twin Towers… Keep reading…
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Examiner prints incendiary anti-bike cover
It must be hard trying to be a good reporter at the Washington Examiner. You write a reasonably balanced article about the ever-present bicycle-driver tensions, and then the editors put it on the front page with a huge incendiary headline, and boom—you’ve just stoked a lot of hatred out there as your contribution to the public marketplace of ideas. This morning,… Keep reading…