Posts tagged Alexandria
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Do elevated rails inhibit sustainable, walkable urban places?
During the design process for the Silver Line, now under construction, a group of citizen activists advocated putting the Tysons Corner portion in a tunnel rather than mostly elevated, as ultimately planned. There was a vigorous debate about the merits of elevated rail as a planning tool for TOD versus a tunnel. Our existing walkable urban places with elevated Metro stations… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Things to oppose, to support, to do
Giant billboards at Gallery Place?; Should Georgetown dream of seceding?; Support bag fees in MD; Hear Monument Wars author Savage; Alexandria dispatch: Bikes and BRAC; Visit Arlington, go to summer 2009 festival; Who you calling a gentrifier?. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: All in the family
Kids + buses = challenge; Dense housing is for families too; I’m on the radio, twice; New daytime parking deal in Adams Morgan; DC gets snow money, Alexandria ha’ sno money; Another tax break; MARC Area’s Really Crowded. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Remaining snow, coming storms
Rock Creek branch storage path; Speak up on the Fairfax budget; BLT or fries at White Flint?; Outer Beltway bill rises from the dead; Designs for Four Mile Run expansion; Yummy soot; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Could be more walkable or bikeable
Tysons hit and run; Learning from Walk Scores; Bike infrastructure cut again; King Street’s fences; Transit worth it; Intrigue in PG planning; And…. Keep reading…
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Potomac Yard Metro: “We can see the finish line”
At last Thursday’s Potomac Yard Planning Advisory Group (PYPAG) meeting, Alexandria’s Deputy Director of Planning and Zoning Jeff Farner joked that this will “probably” be the last one, which drew a few tentative chuckles from the group. The planning of Potomac Yard seems to have gone on for years if not decades. The goal for the product of over a year… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Build it and pay for it
Potomac Yard funding solved?; Have developers pay for transit; Housing for Silver Spring; Road debates in MoCo; Republican-only town hall on I-66; Small empty spaces add up; Where buses make their money; Rails to trails, more literally. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving outside the Beltway
Devil’s bill dies; Driver kills two; Sprawlwater regulations?; A denser Columbia; Even more VRE; MARC boarding now less convenient?; Surprise, we’re building. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It’s an oversight
Fighting terror with theater; Who you gotta call?; $30M for oversight; Streetcars on Wisconsin?; Don’t DASH on Sundays; A vision for Hampton Roads; Ag Reserve megachurch not dead yet; How green is your road project?. Keep reading…
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12 ways our region could reform bicycling laws
The percentage of people riding bikes for transportation has been rising for the better part of two decades and there is every reason to believe that trend will continue. While engineers and traffic planners work to update the infrastructure and physical elements to encourage cycling, there is more that legislators can do to help too. Some laws unnecessarily restrict safe cycling… Keep reading…