Posts tagged Cfa
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NCPC plans to be more open
The National Capital Planning Commission is working on an Open Government Plan, to “increase transparency, public participation, and collaboration.” You can vote on their various ideas at an interactive site. Ideas include putting online more of the plans that are under review, live streaming meetings, creating an online platform for people to collaboratively suggest… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Doing more on the Mall
Hirshhorn considers garden excavation; Restore sanity and the Mall; MPD Chief has a sweet deal; Quick Complete Streets; BOEE e-voting not secure yet; NoVA will keep Board seats, for now; College towns top for bike commuting; Teacher diversity in Arlington Public Schools. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Feds and their water
No old fountains means no new fountains; Feds to pay for their wastewater; Sewage spills into Potomac; Many Metro workers don’t report problems; Fighting over White Flint pay plan; A positive spin on real estate; Capital Bikeshare ridership is in; Cardinal could run daily; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Out of the road
Bus tragedy; Keeping bike racks off Pennsylvania; Opposing comes at a cost; Food trucks roll around for another article; Fishing for tows; Google the Shweeb; And in Oregon…; Cities in focus; Vision on the SW Waterfront. Keep reading…
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DDOT will extend successful 15th Street cycle track
On Friday, DDOT released an assessment of the existing cycle track on 15th Street NW and designs for an extension from E to W Streets. Currently, a protected, one-way southbound bike lane runs along 15th Street from Massachusetts Avenue to U Street. The street has sharrows in the right-hand general traffic lane for northbound cyclists. Over four weeks in late September and… Keep reading…
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How would you improve the Washington Monument area?
In comparison to the relative clutter of some other areas of the National Mall and adjacent parks, the Washington Monument grounds have the opposite problem: they’re a desolate wasteland of grass without shade, amenities, or interesting programming. That wasn’t the original plan. Early concepts for the Washington Monument included a colonnade surrounding… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: George and his town
Will it be George?; Georgetown endorses streetcars, mostly; “Complete Streets, incomplete BRAC”; Gray better with Twitter, except on policy; On the rails; Federally; Narrow streets yourself. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What do you think?
Is the fare fair? Post version; Big races coming to DC?; Does six suffice?; Are police bad drivers?; “Go forth and inflate”; It’s working; Plugging leaks and more; Driving too safe. Keep reading…
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CFA says no poles, paint on Pennsylvania Avenue
WashCycle is reporting that the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, “in its public meeting last Thursday, expressed its unanimous support for facilitating bicycle use and approved the basic design of the Pennsylvania Avenue bike lanes, but advised against the installation of the plastic poles and the use of color on the pavement.”… Keep reading…
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New Urbanist Plater-Zyberk nominated to CFA
President Bush has nominated Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, one of the two boards that oversee architecture and planning in federal DC. She and her husband Andrés Duany were founders of the New Urbanism movement and authors of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. Keep reading…