Posts tagged Alexandria
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Breakfast links: Governments for questionable urbanism
Left hand plans transit, right hand adds parking; Why the hate for form-based codes?; Cycle-assaulting teens busted; New bike infrastructure; Keeping you Posted; Ben’s on every corner; Cable cars and the blue castle. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Montgomery’s losses
Dan Reed leaving; Vacant stores and gas stations not the path; Lots in (& near) LeDroit; Oh, these spare parts?; Alexandria’s parking solution; All about Bobs (and Tom); Drive-thru booze. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bringing in business
No new restaurants?; A fake small town for your office; Chevy Chase against something; O’Malley fights to preserve MTA, not WMATA; VDOT drops “pave the preserve” plan; VA maps bikes; Meet the ambassador; Dots from DDOT?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Making the connection
Anti pantograph?; More traction for Fair Share; Stay away from the Convention Center; Hans and the Gaithersbungle; Posting stats boosts safe driving; Tour buses and annoyances are back; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: We like Mike
Too many Michael Browns; 2 bus drivers arrested; Mt. P library patrons not going quietly; Water taxis?; Silly merchants; Sillier merchants; Our brains make no sense. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Happy birthday, but don’t sing
Happy birthday Metro!; High spirits not allowed in the Capitol; Now Dr. Gridlock-Metrocrowd-Busysidewalk?; Fairfax rallying against Connector cuts; DHS needs even more space; 3 Ike towers in Alexandria?; Pike art. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Connect the lines
RI Ave Metro to be connected; Do zig-zags work?; Crash; One step closer to Potomac Yard; Greenbelt Station stationary; Parking lease blocking the gate; People fight infill everywhere; Mode equality = catastrophe?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Safer and more affordable
Hit, kill, run; Cycle tracks in College Park?; Affordable housing activity; Off the job for 9 years, come back, derail a train; MV Square market unpermitted, but should be permissible?; After the flood; How are Kenyan riots like the snowpocalypse?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hate-based policy arguments
Kornheiser for manslaughter; Big government sprawl; Intermediate offense for deadly driving; No TOD for the House; Walker is a rider; Annandale could get a “sense of place”; VDOT: Offramp or bust; No to vampire bill. Keep reading…
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Maryland, Fairfax, Alexandria take steps toward needed WMATA funding
Maryland and Fairfax County both took promising steps toward providing the needed $73.7 million in contributions to WMATA, and Alexandria officials are likely to follow, but there’s still a long way to go. First, MDOT’s proposed budget increases its WMATA contribution by $8.7 million. Under the WMATA funding formula, Maryland’s share of overall contributions… Keep reading…