Posts tagged Alexandria
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Alexandria weighing Metro station alternatives
Alexandria is weighing five potential locations for a future Potomac Yard Metrorail station, along the Yellow and Blue Lines between National Airport and Braddock Road. The Potomac Yard section of Alexandria represents a huge opportunity for walkable, transit-oriented development right on a major Metro corridor. As presentations from the project team make clear, the potential… Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Shoup!
Donald Shoup, the “parking guru,” is coming to Alexandria and making a public presentation tomorrow. If you make it down to Alexandria for just one event this year, this is the one. In The High Cost of Free Parking, Shoup laid out the economic fallacies in underpricing parking, and popularized the concept of market-based performance parking which dedicates revenue… Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Shop, ride, talk, listen
Shop at Whole Foods and support CSG; Ride of Silence; Bloggers, residents talk; Talk back to MoCo; Later on. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The results are in
Barnes, Burda win in Chevy Chase; And over in Alexandria; Bike paths only good if they block trains?; Two ped triangles in the Triangle; HSR could unify mega-regions; Where’s my $30?; Pay by phone in MoCo?; Angelenos debate Getty parking hike. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Park or don’t drive
Charlottesville considers meters; NCPC unhappy with no new parking at Navy Yard?; Talking parking in Alexandria; Sweeper cam tickets to fund housing; BRAC all fraked; NYC imagines 49,000 shared bicycles; DCCA elects slate, President too close to call. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Greener except on the Green Line
Uncutting transit; No Metro after late Nats games?; Good job Cavan!; FOX supports transit yesterday; Moran introduces national bag fee; More for the Mall; Vehicle hits man, reporter ignores driver; Too aggressive; UMD deletes garages; How about zig-zags?; Fenty’s $4,000 bike and other facts; Shopping to housing in Germantown; Not what we meant, Mendo. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Running into walls
Anti-soccer or just generally anti-people?; Carnage in Prince George’s; Groups want smaller, greener White Flint; Potomac Yard Metro Alternative Analysis; Can BRT be great?; That’s not treading lightly; CirculatorTube. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Click, beep, dig
Car sharing: the next generation; Cleveland replaces quiet with false safety; Potomac Yard station on the “wrong side of the tracks”?; European annoyed by Metro broken ticket machines, escalators; Amtrak underspending on marketing. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trading places
This article was posted as an April Fool’s joke. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Figaro qua, Figaro là
Bikes at Shady Grove: Metro is “considering [whether] to allow Montgomery County to build [a] bike path to [the] Shady Grove” Metro station. Metro acknowledges it can’t always afford all desired improvements itself, but is it really questioning whether to allow the County to construct a bike facility using its own dollars? (Examiner)… Keep reading…