Posts tagged Alexandria
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Old Town Alexandria is getting more bike lanes in May
Alexandria is nearly finished adding bike lanes from the King Street Metro station to the waterfront in Old Town. Crews are painting the new lanes and sharrows on Cameron Street and Prince Street, which parallel King Street, as part of the city's larger effort to improve cycling infrastructure. Keep reading…
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Arlington will likely require less parking near Metro stations
Currently, new residential developments near Metro stations in Arlington have to come with a certain amount of parking. The amount required, however, could soon drop, a move that reflects a growing understanding of how excess parking promotes urban sprawl and traffic congestion and drives up housing prices. Keep reading…
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Not all trails are created equal. Here’s how to tell the gold standard from the imitators
Trails are a huge part of ensuring that walking and riding a bike are among a person's transportation options. But when it comes to building them across our region's many jurisdictions, whether or not they’re safe and inviting can really vary. A set of criteria like those in this post could change that. Keep reading…
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What if Alexandria allowed more food trucks in Old Town?
Old Town Alexandria is very short on food trucks, thanks in large part to rules that place severe limits on where they can park. If the city made Old Town more open to food trucks, it could both stimulate business and encourage more people to walk around the area. Keep reading…
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Baton Rouge is more like DC than you think. This tool explains why.
In one particular case, it turns out that DC has more in common with Baton Rouge, Louisiana than you might think. DC is 35.6% white, which makes it more similar to Baton Rouge (at 36.4%) than San Francisco (at 41.2%). That's according to a new online tool that uses Census data to compare cities. Keep reading…
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Why Alexandria has far fewer food trucks than DC, Arlington, and Fairfax
If you step out for lunch in a dense part of DC or Arlington, there’s a good chance one of your options will be a food truck. In Alexandria, not so much. That’s because there are tight restrictions on where trucks can do business and permits cost a lot more than in most other places around the region. Keep reading…
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Local (and federal) governments want you to go sledding!
Last year, for the first time in a long while, government officials started actually encouraging (or at least tacitly allowing) area residents to have some winter fun on hills that were previously off limits to unsanctioned sledding. Check out our list of the best hills to hit while there's still snow on the ground. Keep reading…
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Here’s how immigrants contribute to Virginia and Maryland’s workforces
Like DC, Virginia and Maryland have a huge number of maids, painters, and taxi drivers born outside of the US. But Virginia also has a large number of computer programmers who weren’t born here, and in Maryland, that’s the case for a lot of medical scientists. These graphs show which jobs in Virginia and Maryland have the most immigrants. Keep reading…
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Flooding is a real risk in Alexandria, so Fairfax County is building a levee
On Monday, a crew began clearing trees from the banks of Cameron Run in Alexandria, marking the start of construction for Fairfax County’s new levee. When the levee is finished in 2019, it will protect about 160 homes in the Huntington neighborhood from flooding, which has been a huge issue in the county for more than 30 years. Keep reading…
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Make DC part of Maryland? Most GGWash contributors don’t like the idea.
Social media and local blogs exploded last week when Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz said he was “exploring” returning a portion of DC to the state of Maryland. Some GGWash contributors like the idea of more consolidated regional planning as well as real congressional representation for the District, but others aren't so into the thought of setting aside the dream of home rule in order to become a Maryland municipality. Keep reading…