Posts from May 2016
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National Links: The housing market
Not everyone has recovered from the US housing market’s collapse, you’re most likely to try a new way of getting around when you move to a new place, and traffic studies usually mean faster roads, not necessarily better planning. Check out what’s happening around the world in transportation, land use, and other related areas! Winning the housing game: The… Keep reading…
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Rainy in the Flickr pool
Here are our favorite new images from the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool, showcasing the best and worst of the Washington region. Keep reading…
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Fifteen big shutdowns, and many smaller ones, will get Metro repairs on track
The plan is finally here. Metro is launching a plan it calls “SafeTrack” to replace significant portions of the system’s rails, fix numerous safety problems, and bring the system closer to a state of good repair. Riders will face weeks-long periods of single-tracking and station shutdowns for the next year. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pulling out the stops
A massive maintenance plan; Shaw says yes to housing; A new branch for the MBT; Art pops up in DC; NPS paves the way; New housing for Chinatown; Hot in here. Keep reading…
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Where DC used to bar black people from living
One of many pieces of America’s shameful racial past was when racial covenants forbade people in certain areas from selling their houses to an African-American family. DC had these in several neighborhoods, particularly Mount Pleasant, Columbia Heights, Petworth, Park View, and Bloomingdale. Keep reading…
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A chat with Arlington County Board candidate Libby Garvey
Libby Garvey is running for re-election to the Arlington County Board against challenger businessman Erik Gutshall. She wants to continue to streamline and ease county regulations to make it a place residents can call “great.” Garvey is all about attracting people to Arlington, which she described as “a smart, capable, and educated community,”… Keep reading…
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Metro’s track work schedule dug the system into a hole
Metro is currently facing a huge backlog of work on aging and broken tracks, partly because its way of scheduling the work isn’t working. The agency is announcing a new strategy for fixing its tracks on Friday, meaning there’s a huge opportunity to get track work right. Keep reading…
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Going Dutch: Planners from the Netherlands make suggestions for bike lanes in DC
In late April, Dutch cycling experts met with DC area planners, engineers, and feds to look at cycling conditions in the West End neighborhood. They all teamed up to draft a plan that would build connections to trails and add new segments of on-street bikeways, all with the goal of creating a safe, easy-to-use cycling network. … Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Track and trail work
Primetime for the track work plan; From A to Z-turn; A tale of two states; SelectPass selections; No neighborhood left behind; New pedestrian bridge; Crash map for Fairfax; A game of chicken; Where’s my dam train?. Keep reading…
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Who are DC’s 1,000 “new residents per month?”
You may have heard that DC’s population is increasing by approximately 1,000 per month. That’s a true popular statistic. But it’s not really true to say that 1,000 people are moving into DC each month. What is really driving this number? Keep reading…