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The Seven Corners pedestrian bridge: one year later
A pedestrian bridge across Route 50 near Seven Corners in Fairfax County opened in May of 2009. Last year I posted twice about this feature. I recently went back to visit and do another count of bridge users. Here are the results, along with the counts from 2009. Each entry in this table represents one hour of counting during the middle of the day. The weather… Keep reading…
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CVS brings transparency to Georgetown
A few weeks ago, Phillip Kennicott wrote a nice piece in the Washington Post about the death of the shop window in Washington. The thrust of the piece was that more and more, stores are blocking up their front windows in order to increase their shelf space. Around town, nobody seems to be more of a purveyor of these blocked windows than CVS. And so it’s a pleasant surprise that… Keep reading…
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If those who pay for transit should pick the WMATA Board, where are the rider reps?
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is trying to take some of Virginia’s WMATA Board seats away from the Northern Virginia counties that appoint them, and threatening to derail the federal funding for safety-related improvements unless he gets it. McDonnell’s main argument is that the state pays about half of Virginia’s share for transit, and therefore he… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Following the story
Reaction to McDonnell power grab; Working hard; Ehrlich vs. transit; O’Malley for TOD; Dresser on a bike; Bikes, eh; How it happened. Keep reading…
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UMich team visualizes Dupont land use
A team of graduate students from the University of Michigan conducted a strategic analysis of the Dupont Circle neighborhood and its retail competitiveness, with sponsorship and participation from Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets. Keep reading…
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Fairfax County reluctant to release open transit data
Fairfax County operates one of the largest suburban bus systems in the region. They could empower mobile app users and software developers to drive more riders to their services by publishing their transit information. Unfortunately, they are letting some misconceptions about open data stop them from taking this valuable step. Transit agencies have two separate yet related… Keep reading…
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Where do residents come from, move to?
Forbes created a mapping website that shows domestic county-to-county migration patterns during 2008. That is, it shows you where people in the US moved to and from that year. Click on any county in the United States and the map will display lines indicating where residents of that county moved to or from. Black lines indicate net inward movement (people moving into the county),… Keep reading…
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Webb frustrated by congestion, tour buses on the Mall
For a letter that at first blush sounds like it’s saying “the Mall should be more of a high-speed freeway for my chauffeured SUV to the Capitol,” Senator Jim Webb’s letter to Mayor Fenty and the National Park Service is actually quite reasonable. Webb is frustrated that illegally-parked tour buses on the Mall create traffic congestion, and writes,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Slug in the gut for Virginians
WMATA power in play; Slugged; WMATA not protecting women enough?; Dump the pump; Wolf Trap park and ride?; Room on 14th; How public is public space?; And…. Keep reading…
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Tell DDOT where you want a Capital Bikeshare location
DC’s Chief Technology Officer Bryan Sivak and his innovative, fast-moving agency have launched a new interactive survey to suggest DC sites for new Capital Bikeshare stations. This extends the ideas in our experiment last year, where all of you placed a few hundred suggested locations in DC, Maryland, and Virginia on a map. OCTO’s version is more sophisticated,… Keep reading…