Posts tagged Anne Arundel
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Breakfast links: Slowing rate of inflation may signal shift to come in home sales
New report projects when home sales in DC will pick up. Montgomery County has all-but-erased gender pay gap in county workforce. VDOT seeks survey feedback for Glebe Road stretch between Columbia Pike and I-66. Keep reading…
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Two experts weigh in on how to transform transit in Baltimore and beyond
Baltimore and surrounding localities are working on a plan to radically improve how people get around with the Regional Transit Plan for Central Maryland. With an undertaking that ambitious, it helps to get advice from people who have experience with that kind of visionary work. Keep reading…
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Some Anne Arundel County residents want to shut down their light rail. Again.
Some residents in Anne Arundel County are pushing to close light rail stations that run in their communities to Baltimore. (No, this isn't an old post from 2011. Or from 1994.) Closure proponents claim they're concerned about crime from light rail riders, but there's no evidence of increased crime in the area, from the train or otherwise. Keep reading…
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We’re getting closer to having a bike trail from DC to Baltimore
Last month, a 1.7 mile section of the WB&A Trail opened, bringing the separate parts in Anne Arundel and Prince George’s County as close to one another as they’ve ever been. A few more additions to the trail would mean an uninterrupted bike route from DC to Baltimore. Keep reading…
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Baltimore’s problem is sprawl, not a bad economy
The city of Baltimore has over 20,000 vacant row houses and 300,000 fewer residents than at its peak. Governor Larry Hogan recently announced funding to demolish whole blocks of them. A common narrative outside Baltimore is that the city is in collapse thanks to manufacturing jobs leaving, as in many Rust Belt cities. But that’s not the biggest problem. Suburbanization is. Keep reading…
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Annapolis gets on board with open transit data
Many transit agencies around the Washington region and the nation have published their routes and schedules online in formats that apps and web tools, including Google Maps, can use. Now, Annapolis is joining the club. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hot ideas
HOT on I-66?; Transportation showdown; Save the Hoover?; Consensus on the water; Springfield gets its mall back; Buffered bike lanes are better; Driver at fault; Background checks discriminate?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bowser, Nadeau beat incumbents
Bowser is the nominee; Nadeau beats Graham; What took so long?; Transit center in 2014?; Circulator extends hours; Transit partnership will save money; Congress discussing transit benefit again; Too many tickets amid blossoms?; DC region is a flop for investors; No snow day exception; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Correlation is not gentrification
Gentrification by the numbers; Living wage debate restarts; Just tickets for cyclist death; DeBlasio plans to increase housing supply; As base grows, so does Columbia; Loudoun contemplating Silver Line loan; NYC releases safe streets design guide; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Great year for Amtrak
Amtrak posts record numbers; Falls Church’s expensive real estate; New parking passes on the way; Why don’t people move?; Wheaton gets apartments for Millennials; Shutdown shorts; And…. Keep reading…