Posts from September 2012
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Breakfast links: Police work
Stop crime through design; Photography still not a crime; Report bad drivers; What’s the standard?; Good, bad, ugly of Romney’s smart growth record; Types of trails; And…. Keep reading…
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Grassy triangle will become a plaza and Ukrainian memorial
A small, empty grass triangle just west of Union Station will soon be a new memorial. Victims of the Ukranian Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 will get memorialized, and residents and workers will get a usable plaza. The back side of the memorial, however, will turn a mostly blank wall to F Street. Keep reading…
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Voting in DC is not a waste
A former Washington City Paper reporter intern says he never registered to vote in DC while living here, because his vote doesn’t count. This is an all-too-common attitude among many residents. But your vote does count in DC, in a great many important ways. Matt Bevilacqua, who now writes for Next American City in Philadelphia, wrote today that it took him 2 whole afternoons… Keep reading…
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A simpler design will strengthen the Bond at Tenley
A building proposed for Tenleytown deserves praise for putting density in the right spot, but its design is too fractured to contribute to the character of Tenleytown. Although the building fills the majority of the lot and is lined with retail, it is neither an interesting work of architecture nor a quiet background building. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Too conventional?
Gray misses statehood talk; Democrats quiet on transit; DC feeling the heat; Even hotter?; Let the best rise?; MPD folds special unit; And…. Keep reading…
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Comment of the week: Induced demand is free fast food
In a lively comment debate over Herb Caudill’s article on car dependence, some readers argued that “induced demand,” the principle that new or wider roads rarely relieve congestion, is no reason to eschew major highway projects; rather, this just shows latent consumer demand for more lane miles. Reader Jacob raised a thought-provoking analogy: Let’s… Keep reading…
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Visitor parking passes won’t go citywide, yet
The District’s pilot program of visitor parking passes recently expanded to Ward 1 and the Howard Theatre area of Ward 6, but contrary to some recent press reports, it isn’t yet expanding the program citywide. DDOT is, however, currently studying what to do for the long term with visitor parking and other parking policy questions. A few years ago, DDOT tried a pilot… Keep reading…
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A fence won’t keep crime out of Burtonsville neighborhood
To discourage crime and loitering, residents of Greencastle Lakes in Burtonsville want to build a mile-long fence around their subdivision. However, neighboring communities say it’ll cut them off from public transit, and the fence may not really make the area any safer. Located in the Briggs Chaney area east of Columbia Pike and north of the Intercounty Connector, Greencastle… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting there
Metro raises SmarTrip minimum; Passenger trains come back to Norfolk; Gray and employment; Flooding problems; Reflecting Pool reopens; Bypasses go out of favor; And…. Keep reading…