Posts tagged Boulevardize
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Breakfast links: Eye of the beholder
Murals: Love ‘em or hate ‘em?; “Rethinking” SmarTrip (but not bus stop spacing); Streetcar wires AND trees?; All together now: Highways are really expensive; And gas taxes don’t cover it; Gateway may close Virginia Ave; I just didn’t see the elephant. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transit or traffic for lovers
Arlington v. Virginia; Virginia Railway Expansion; Shoulda coulda woulda; Seattle rejects bag fee; Float to the game; Walkability is money; Twelve feet; College Park wants in. Keep reading…
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Fairfax needs a street grid, but more than an island
Fairfax City just enacted a new commercial real estate tax dedicated to transportation, and plans to use the money to facilitate redevelopment on Fairfax Boulevard. The area surrounding Route 123, branded as “Northfax,” will be the first priority for large-scale redevelopment. While the plans are still in a very early stage, and redevelopment proposals have not… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: hungry for good architecture, stimulus money
Not so historic: Prince of Petworth posts a very non-historic building in Capitol Hill. Good reason to have historic preservation laws, or a nice addition of variety to the block? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Progress and detours
Robocars are almost here: An autonomous VW built by Stanford managed to navigate a blockaded Eleventh Avenue in Manhattan during a demonstration, stopping at stop signs, avoiding other vehicles and pedestrians. How long until we have real autonomous vehicles on regular streets? Check out the video. Tip: Phil Lepanto. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: good pieces you might have missed before the election
14th in chains: Ryan Avent weighs in on local businesses and chains: “The biggest impediment to entrepreneurship in the District … is probably the city’s nasty habit of requiring 14 difficult-to-get permits to do anything business oriented,” he wrote. Keep reading…
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Silverman demagoguing on Whitehurst
Cary Silverman is sending a postcard to voters in Foggy Bottom and Georgetown promoting misguided notions about traffic. Many people believe that more roads = less traffic and fewer roads = more traffic, but that’s not true; converting a freeway to a boulevard usually makes about half the traffic disappear, with the boulevard usually able to handle the rest. But Silverman… Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Building one freeway, tearing one down edition
Formula sunk the ICC bike trail: The WashCycle has more details on why the ICC bike trail was dropped for “environmental reasons”. It’s another example of stupid, overly narrow federal funding formulas that lead to distorted outcomes. Keep reading…
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Does “moving” sound like “removing” with an Oklahoma accent?
In May, USA Today ran an article, “Oklahoma City swaps highway for park”: Keep reading…
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New Haven next to boulevardize a freeway
In 1957, New Haven tore down a neighborhood near its waterfront to build a freeway. It created a barrier between downtown and Union Station, cut off streets, created dark shadows under huge ramps, and fostered more car-oriented and pedestrian-unfriendly development in the hospitals and huge parking garages that were built there. Keep reading…