Posts from October 2012
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Talk parking with DDOT’s Angelo Rao, Thursday at noon
Angelo Rao, DDOT’s parking manager, has been holding a series of Parking Think Tanks across the District to hear from residents about parking policy. Besides events in Anacostia, Tenleytown, and many other neighborhoods, he has agreed to have one in the virtual neighborhood of the Internet here on Greater Greater Washington. At the in-person Think Tanks, participants… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Contested transportation
GMU pushes sprawl some more; ANC agrees to no parking; Arlington candidates cold on streetcar; Graham vs. WMATA ethics; Got 11 cars?; TOD underway, awaits transit; Expanded transfers expands bus service; And…. Keep reading…
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What are your top issues with federal parkland in DC?
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is organizing a town hall to talk about National Park Service-controlled parkland in the District of Columbia on October 25. I’ll be participating on a panel. What issues or requests should I bring up? Norton convened a town hall last year after a coalition of parks advocates and other activists, including myself, called attention… Keep reading…
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New websites crowdsource development ideas
GGW’s I Wish This Were series of posts imagined better uses for vacant properties and bad public spaces. 2 entrepreneurial DC brothers have taken this concept to the next level, with websites that harness the power of crowdsourcing to help shape neighborhood development. Ben and Daniel Miller, sons of Gallery Place developer Herbert Miller, created 2 crowdsourcing… Keep reading…
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U-turns on Pennsylvania Avenue bike lanes pose safety risk
A driver, talking on a cell phone, started to make an illegal U-turn across the Pennsylvania Avenue bike lanes and almost hit Bill Walsh. He recorded the experience in a video: Keep reading…
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Should Arlington transform Quincy into its own Central Park?
It’s been about 35 years since Arlington graduated from backwater suburb to forward-looking city. It’s missing one final piece to complete its transformation: a great central park. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Red and green
Nats win logistically; NoMa room for green; No green for Purple?; Bikes get more green in the rain; Church goes where the fish are; Kingman Park Secrecy Association; Corcoran can’t move?; InteresTED in maps; And…. Keep reading…
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Hey Silicon Valley: Tech will not solve every problem
Technology is great. It has made our lives better in countless ways. It has the potential to solve a lot of problems. However, it will not cure every social ill or remedy every injustice. That doesn’t stop some folks in the Bay Area from letting their tech evangelism go just a little over the top, making it sound like they think technology will indeed solve every problem. This… Keep reading…
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Metro’s 7000 series mock-up makes its debut
The newest member of Metro’s fleet recently arrived from Japan, and debuted to reporters this morning at a Metro facility in Landover. The “hard mock-up” is the first of the 7000 series cars to arrive in the Washington area, though this car will likely never carry passengers. Keep reading…
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Traffic tests confound Montgomery council
Montgomery County has tried several times to find a working “adequate public facilities ordinance,” rules that aim to ensure new buildings don’t jam up roads. They’ve never succeeded, and a new version won’t either. At a County Council meeting Monday, legislators struggled with another proposed revamp of the law, which the county DOT originated… Keep reading…