Posts tagged Budget
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Thinking inside the box: Reusing Ward 5’s empty big boxes
Julia Christensen has become the authority on adaptive community reuse of empty big box stores with her 6-year project and now recent book, Big Box Reuse. Empty stores have transformed into community centers, museums, charter schools, markets, and more. While Christensen’s project focuses primarily on the suburban landscape, we are dealing with a similar loss in DC’s… Keep reading…
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Transit First recommends Maryland restore Ride-On, speed buses
The Transit First! coalition today released its plan for closing the Metro budget gap without harmful bus service cuts that will reduce mobility for transit-dependent riders, especially many in Prince George’s County which would bear the brunt of currently-planned bus cuts. The plan calls for Maryland to restore its Ride-On cuts, also saving Metro $1 million per year, and… Keep reading…
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Bike and ped safety fund is back, but will it survive?
Please welcome Adam Voiland, the newest member of GGW’s contributor team. Adam also writes the DC Bicycle Transportation Examiner blog. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Imagine and reinvent
See, click, fix!; Maybe KFC will fix them; Post endorses Anacostia trash-reducing bag fee; Circulator posts routes, starts today; Route 7 light rail next?; Stimulus no help for transit-dependent riders; Time to “reinvent America’s cities”. Keep reading…
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DC budget abandons Shoup principles
The Budget Support Act for the Mayor’s proposed 2010 budget would repeal a key provision of the performance parking pilot set up over a year ago. Instead of dedicating performance parking revenue to the local neighborhood, the amendment would place that revenue into the same general DDOT budget as other meter fees. Reserving extra meter revenue for the neighborhood is a key… Keep reading…
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Metro will hold hearings on service cuts, not fare increases
Today the WMATA Board of Directors officially proposed a series of bus service reductions which will balance the remainder of a $29M budget deficit. The proposed cuts will be presented to the public in a series of public hearings and are described in this document. Keep reading…
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Bye bye blank wall, hello parking lot, for now
A Baltimore Red Line news release touts the exciting news that Maryland will use stimulus money to demolish a portion of West Baltimore’s neighborhood-dividing “Highway to Nowhere”. In its place, leaders hope, will one day rise mixed-use development on this key transit node. In the meantime, though, the area will only get more parking. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Full spaces, empty spaces
That’s a few bikes; Another $2 mil for the empty garage; To raze or not to raze?; Living in a city is better for the environment (but not so much in DC); Maryland’s streets are especially dangerous; Dean hates Metro delays, platform dawdlers; We’re lookin’ at you, SEPTA; PG to United: build your own soccer stadium. Keep reading…
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Fairfax County proposes bus route cuts
Fairfax County has proposed cutting bus service for FY 2010 to close a $650M budget gap. The cuts include completely eliminating fifteen routes, decreasing bus frequency on nine routes, cutting off weekend service on one route, and other cuts. Keep reading…
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DC 2010 budget would end Saturday free parking
Back in November, Councilmember Jim Graham suggested raising parking meter rates to restore some cuts in important housing programs like HPAP, which helps people get mortgages to buy homes. Graham suggested raising $1/hour meters to $2, and 50¢ meters to 75¢. He also proposed ending DC’s policy of free parking on Saturdays. Keep reading…