Posts tagged Bag Fees
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Breakfast links: Stereotypes
“Gentrifiers” aren’t all white; Bad apples lead to viral videos; Simmons: Roads not rights; Primary will stay a joke; Food trucks get compromise; Bag fee just for food?; Chevy Chase Lake gets changes; Make the MBT safer; Talk bike lanes, safe streets; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Strong Bonds
Bonds wins; Budget referendum passes easily; Regional transit system emerging in Maryland; Fewer offices, more Silver Spring housing; Bag fee for fewer stores?; Tesla blocked from Virginia; Every stadium deal has a subsidy; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The future of roads
Highways and climate change; Squeeze in bike lanes; DC gets credit upgrade; Ban the moratorium; Bag fee jitters; Creative class writing; Bracket time; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Get out of park
Parking minimums impede Anacostia; Streetlights people; Wrongheaded enforcement; WSSC would force suburban patterns; Credit card readers maybe?; Bag some bag fees?; Where the cranes are; Report card time; And… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Back to work
NOquester; Verizon Center gets its signs; Public (Parking) Storage?; MARC your schedules; Can you trust VDOT?; Bids everywhere; Bag fee: a history; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not here
Board says no to Wheaton gas station; HOT lane ramp pollution stirs opposition; NPS finds Jack’s replacement; This year’s bike lanes; Urbanism is not a fad; Movies by the ballpark; Pay for empty; The actual war on cars; Shorter Amtrak routes are best; And…. Keep reading…
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Barry: “Have courage” and pass the Maryland bag fee
Yesterday morning, DC Councilmembers Marion Barry and Tommy Wells went to Annapolis together to brief the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus on the success of DC’s 5¢ disposable bag fee, and ask them to support a similar proposal currently before the Maryland General Assembly. The Community Cleanup and Greening Act (HB1086/SB576) would mirror the District’s… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where real estate’s hot or not
Poplar Point for FBI?; Building in Ballston; Howard makes dough from real estate; Upper I-270 not so hot; Transportation plan reactions; Cyclist’s life worth $140?; Good things come from bag fees; Graham under fire; 3 neat apps; And…. Keep reading…
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Montgomery County underestimated plastic bag use
Last week brought a wave of news stories looking back at the first year of the Montgomery County bag fee. Some of them (particularly the Washington Post) concluded the bag fee is ineffective at changing behavior, as shoppers did not appear to be switching from disposable bags to reusable ones as intended. This conclusion is incorrect. And it’s all because of one number. Montgomery… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Goodbye, Ray
LaHood leaving; Surplus salted away; Chevy Chase sidewalk contentious; No mandatory helmets in Maryland; Superhuman cyclists aren’t most of us; MoCo bag fee 1 year old; Lower benefit hurts bus ridership; And…. Keep reading…