Posts from June 2017
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What Paris agreement? Solar power loses in Mendelson’s budget
The DC Streetcar wasn’t the only program suddenly cut when DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson released his budget on May 30. One of the others, a fund that supports solar power projects in DC, was raided for $7.5 million. The second and final vote on the budget is Tuesday, giving DC’s 13 councilmembers a chance to make a statement about whether they stand for clean energy. Keep reading…
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Alabama Avenue SE could get a bike lane and road diet
Alabama Avenue is a major throughfare that provides connections to neighborhoods, commercial areas, and the Metro in wards 7 and 8. Big changes, including better bikeways, could be coming its way. Protected bikeways aren't in the plan yet, but could be. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: This year’s Capital Pride embraced a more resistant tone
The new administration casts a shadow over the Capital Pride Parade and the Equality March. Metro says worker safety is the main reason its trains continue to run manually. MetroAccess riders are dealing with increasingly worse service. Keep reading…
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National stories: Congestion pricing in New York City?
Congestion pricing could be coming to New York City, and baby boomers are moving out of McMansions while nobody wants to move in, and Google Street View cars are collecting data on air pollution. Check out what’s happening around the world in transportation, land use, and other related areas! Keep reading…
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Beautiful humans in the Flickr pool
Here are our favorite new images uploaded this week to the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool. Keep reading…
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The subway-style bike map returns, with a few tweaks
In February, I wrote about a map that illustrates a number of local trails and bike lanes as though they're subway lines. In the time since, map author Michael Graham has made some updates. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not your average Pride weekend
Capital Pride gets underway this weekend, and this year's event feels particularly political. Our region's security agencies are housed in a subset of architecture all their own. DC workers may have to start paying more to fund paid family leave. Keep reading…
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DC Council Chairman Mendelson says he didn’t cut the Benning Road streetcar extension. DDOT says “that’s false.”
When a final budget came out of the DC Council the night after Memorial Day, I reported that it cut $60 million from the DC Streetcar and that would significant delay, or permanently scuttle, extending the line to Benning Road Metro in Ward 7. Chairman Phil Mendelson is disputing that's the effect of his cuts, but transportation officials re-confirmed to me that is exactly what will happen if the cuts stay. Keep reading…
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High costs aren’t the only reason people move away from cities. Sometimes, they just want to live somewhere else.
A lot of writing about housing in DC says minorities, immigrants, and low-income people are being pushed out of the city due to high housing costs. That’s true for many. But even if the District were more affordable, some may not choose to live there. And that’d be okay. Keep reading…
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Check out this map (and history) of DC’s LGBT places and spaces
Pride week starts on Thursday! This interactive maps the places and spaces that have been important to the DC's LGBT community for more than 50 years. Keep reading…