Recent Posts
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Breakfast links: Feds and their water
No old fountains means no new fountains; Feds to pay for their wastewater; Sewage spills into Potomac; Many Metro workers don’t report problems; Fighting over White Flint pay plan; A positive spin on real estate; Capital Bikeshare ridership is in; Cardinal could run daily; And…. Keep reading…
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Struck in DC this week: 5 pedestrians, 1 cyclist
In the video David posted yesterday about New York’s ambition to become world’s greatest, greenest big city, Mayor Bloomberg noted that dramatic changes have yielded dramatic results. In three years, “Traffic fatalities are down 20 percent,” he said. In addition, New York’s life expectancy has gone up, “and part of that is reduced traffic deaths.” But New York is doing more… Keep reading…
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Where could DC make space for pedestrians?
Since the pedestrianization of Broadway, the Times Square Alliance has found that foot traffic in Times Square is up 15%. The BBC has a great video about counting foot traffic in New York’s busiest pedestrian space: What places in our area would be nicer as pedestrian spaces, either part or full time? Keep reading…
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Submit tips through Google Reader
Erik W. has been ably assembling the Breakfast Links (and occasional Weekend Links) for several weeks now, and many of you have submitted tips. Thanks! Please keep up the tips. Erik doesn’t have time to go through local papers and major blogs every day, so the links really represent what you’ve sent in. If something is missing, there’s a good chance that’s because nobody submitted… Keep reading…
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Next train display built on WMATA APIs
The WMATA “Transparent Metro Data Sets” API for Metrorail has been out for about two months now, and developers are starting to put together tools using it. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Adding bike laws and infrastructure
New bike laws in Maryland; Georgetown CaBi stations; Floating around; More superhighways; Hard to hail a cab; Getting schooled in Washington; One less Michael Brown. Keep reading…
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Weekend video: New York as the greatest, greenest big city
New York is doing so many terrific things with bike lanes, bus priority, public spaces and more, and EMBARQ wanted to show all the leaders of the world’s cities about it. Keep reading…
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The path around the Flickr pool’s edge
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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Could Southwest become DC’s second downtown?
The Southwest Waterfront master plan, released yesterday, adds to an impressive collection of plans and development that could collectively transform the way we think about the area south of the National Mall. One day, not too many decades from now, Southwest (and Near Southeast) could become a second downtown for DC, as large as the existing downtown area. Consider… Keep reading…
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“The Polluters” reveals the history of industrial pollution
When I was a teenager, my mother worked at a chemical plant in Wilmington, Delaware. When she told me about her work, she emphasized the safety procedures that the plant followed. Many of the procedures were due to the ongoing environmental cleanup in and around the site. Before 1970, there was little in the way of environmental standards for industrial sites in… Keep reading…