Posts tagged Atlanta
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Breakfast links: Safety first
On the trail; Idaho Stops may be safer; Orange cones, no phones; Surviving earth, wind, and fire; Poverty in new places; Eastern Market more like 7-Eleven; Reinvigorating Crystal City; Casino’s signs worry neighbors; And…. Keep reading…
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Design competition aims to give DC beautiful and functional play spaces
There is a growing need for children’s play spaces in DC, but some think that playgrounds are unsightly and detract from public space. To address this, the Office of Planning (OP) is holding an international competition to design art-based play spaces for underserved neighborhoods. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Competition heats up
Development for College Park Metro?; PG gets competitive; Bikes to get Royal treatment?; Walter Reed grocery store bids; Is Baltimore the next foodie paradise?; Can transit fix food deserts?; Better for the planet?; And…; And and…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Reconnect the grid
Covering I-395 will reconnect the grid; Snow cripples southern cities; Job training for DC’s hardest-hit; WMATA botches new signs; Fairfaxers caught texting while driving; Provocative posters; Too cold to bike?; And…. Keep reading…
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Europe’s real streetcar lesson: Context matters
In the ongoing debate about where and when to build streetcars, the topic of whether they should run in mixed-traffic or dedicated lanes is a major point of contention. But outside the ivory tower of the blogosphere, it’s not an ideological question so much as a contextual one. Keep reading…
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US streetcar boom takes off in 2014
Three other American cities in addition to DC will open new streetcar lines this year, and at least 12 more cities are expected to advance construction on lines that will open later. Keep reading…
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Our bus fares aren’t that cheap (if you transfer)
WMATA is considering raising bus fares, with the justification that they’re lower than in other cities. But somehow every time this topic comes up, people forget that there’s a big difference between our bus fares and other cities’: riders transferring between bus and rail pay a lot more. The agency recently put out a survey which, among other things, asked… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It’s not really a big college town
Howard Town Center lawsuit tossed; Gallaudet growth; More residential to Capitol Riverfront; Needed: a lot more housing; Bus ridership beats rail in most cities; Can our shoulders carry buses?; Pedestrian tunnel gets a hearing; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Federal holiday transit blues
Veterans Day commuting delays; Close calls on L Street cycletrack; Purple Line deal sweeteners; Buses connect to Silver Line; DC’s theater boom; Atlanta Braves leave Atlanta; And…. Keep reading…
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Four lessons Prince George’s County can learn from Atlanta
Prince George’s County has stubbornly stuck with sprawl, preferring development outside the Beltway and away from transit. Could it learn a new way to grow from Atlanta, which is swiftly metamorphosing from “Sprawlanta” to new urban paradise? A recent study from George Washington University professor Christopher Leinberger finds that most of metropolitan… Keep reading…