Posts tagged Architecture
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Amtrak makes no little plans with Union Station vision
Yesterday, Amtrak released a master plan to guide Union Station’s growth over the next several decades. The ambitious proposal includes several key components that will make the station easier to use, increase its capacity, and ensure a strong foundation for the transportation center. It’s somewhat fitting that this ambitious plan is attached to Union Station. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Congress and bikes
Issa OK with commuter tax; Can’t kill cooperation; Conflict resolution; A place to cross; Bike to Wolf Trap; Sprawl worsens drought; And…. Keep reading…
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To save the Eisenhower Memorial, we may need to move it
Construction on the proposed Eisenhower Memorial in southwest Washington has stalled amid criticism of the current design. Critics have challenged specific elements of the design, but few have questioned whether we’re putting the memorial in the right place. Could we better honor President Eisenhower by moving his memorial somewhere else? The proposed… Keep reading…
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Breakfast Links: Tall enough?
House talks height; Food trucks come to Takoma Junction; McMillan plan green enough?; Another development on 14th; Atlanta’s mass transit at risk; Houston goes green; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Down, not out
Gray blasts critics; BRT decades away?; Height limit rising?; Thompson leaves his firm; New York goes further up; Council approves Walter Reed plan; Making a new Southwest; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Arrive
Anacostia gets costlier; Gray flies to China on the cheap; Nationals sell out; DC aims to take back buses; Church looks to own entire block; The diversity of LeDroit Park; Hong Kong becomes mega-region without unity; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bigger and better Metro
No extension on extension decision; Safety on the rise; More sprawl faster; No parking for post; Hine closer to consensus; Rant wrong on libertarianism, right on DPW failure; Crystal City will be more crystal-like; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Replace what’s failing
Time to rebuild Crystal; Another day, another friction ring; Yes, not BRT is cheaper than BRT; More bad arguments against CaBi; Get past the post; From stodgy to stunning; Consider adoption; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Time
No nighttime Purple Line?; Ike’s family wants more time; Still on the loose; Unions against transit; Put a lid on it; New city will be empty; LA gets its groove back; And…. Keep reading…
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Holiday links: Memorial
It’s never too early; Uber legal; Stay away from Wegmans; What DC was like in 1940; No trouble with the maples; How and why of opposition; And…. Keep reading…