Posts tagged Brightwood
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Breakfast links: The road ahead
Transportation policy running on empty; Should DC get its own park rules?; Do riders win or lose with Dyke?; PG seeks more speed cameras; What to do about Bethesda’s escalators?; Preservation parcels; Suggest your own CaBi locations; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Honk if you have a vote in Congress
Take action (if you can); Who’s popular in Virginia; Kwame Brown now for ethics; Should Council be full-time or part?; ACT: Build Bethesda entrance faster; No more taking off shoes for kids; Suddenly it’s historic?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Lined up two-by-two
Region sees flash floods; Dupont may lose an entrance; Countdown to the bus; Redesign 3 Mall sites; Watch out for falling trusses; Is communication Gray’s problem?; Obama pushes infrastructure, Republicans push back; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Batten the hatches
Blow and crack; Segregation varies greatly by region; School reform sees racial disparity; Who will manage the streetcars?; Jaffe misses the blight; OP review limited on 2 Walmarts; Capital yard-share; Ferry transit may be an option; And…. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: How to improve
Good schools help cities or vice versa?; ANC wants changes for Walmart; Why the hating on neighborhoods?; Transportation is political in Virginia; Just what transit needs: TSA screening; Crashes around the region; Klein bringing bus shelter screens to Chicago; Watch young planners showcasing. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: No free lunch
Bag fees, Bethesda to Burtonsville; WMATA employees park free; DDOT rejects Walmart traffic study; Visualize the 4/26 election; Black church turns to solar; Today in buildings; Where are the food deserts?; Using Tysons to better Fairfax; And…. Keep reading…
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How can 14th Street thrive between Target and Walmart?
Between the high-volume Columbia Heights retail district to the south and a planned Walmart in Brightwood to the north, upper 14th Street occupies a precarious position in the District’s retail landscape. Planners are working to make sure the future of 14th Street NW is one with vibrant, neighborhood-serving retail nodes. The DC Office of Planning is working… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bad and good news in Virginia
VA must identify transportation priorities; Falls Church man struck and killed; Virginia launches offshore wind panel; Region’s unemployment down; Bike sharing comes to College Park; Pushing back against Walmart; Lots and lots of parking coming to Ward 5; We have a surplus of parking; How Metrobuses got their names; New reckless driving laws ignored?. Keep reading…
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Will Wal-Mart be urban? Part 1: Brightwood
Ever since Wal-Mart announced earlier this week that they intend to build four stores in the District of Columbia, the question on the mind of urbanists has been: What will they look like? Can Wal-Mart be fit into an urban context? Will we be getting walkable, transit oriented stores like the Columbia Heights Target, or the typical sprawly suburban model with acres of parking out… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It’s a Klein world after all
100 against Klein, Tregoning; Challenges ahead for Gabe; Wal-Mart coming to DC; Metro has roof and communication troubles; DCDSC doesn’t want to be democratic; Maryland cancels MARC bid; Where should CaBi go next?; Not all of the NPS is a black box; And…. Keep reading…