Posts tagged Churches
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Weekend links: World-sized ideas
Will giant globe perch over freeway?; Dupont underground movies?; What agencies say about buildings; Petition against the sidepath law; Height limit = high prices in one city; Traffic is bad for you, biking good; The decline of pedestrian rights; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The earth moved
Welcome to the seismic zone; What’s damaged; What’s closed; Transportation bounces back; What were you thinking?; Bikes came in handy; Tweets beat the quake; Gray aides broke laws; Get ready for Irene; Meanwhile…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Overtime, over budget, overdrive
Metro workers pulling long hours; Silver Line funding still in question; AAA still fighting for speeders; Program matches parents for carpools; What’s “just right” for porch height; MLK Memorial will open to all; Arlington marks scandal and intrigue; Satire map plots stereotypes; Could an overlay stop more churches on RI Ave?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Precious on-street parking
Car sharing may get competition; Central DC parking spaces now have pay by phone; More on taxis; Ravtich Rhee-thinks Rhee-form; Transit site redesign a flop; Holy water denied; SF to LA, 32 hours on trains and buses; Mica’s district hates his plan; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: So many subsidies
MoCo shells out for Costco; Newt likes subsidies if liberals hate them; WMATA changing flacks; Drunk driver gets 3.5 years for manslaughter; MTA readjusts Purple Line projections; When do cyclists cycle?; CaBi and counting coming to Alexandria; PG’s Johnson to plead guilty; And…. 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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Afternoon links: Contradictions galore
Solar Decathlon to National Harbor?; E-ZPass cameras okay by AAA; Affordable housing from heaven; Enlighten Brookland; How to avoid another commute from hell; Getting farm food into schools; Assessing Sarles; VRE mulls fare and policy changes; And…. Keep reading…
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Lost Washington: Church of the Covenant
Churches are one of the biggest challenges for historic preservation. They are such unique structures and so poorly suited to be anything but what they are. What happens when a congregation outgrows its building and wants to move on? In some cases, old churches downtown have been preserved because they were taken over by other religious groups. Several downtown landmarks have… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Feds pay up
Feds speed up Silver Line funding; Congress orders feds to pay stormwater fees; Transit can never be fully secured; Glenmont getting garage; Silver Spring still debating library ped bridge; Car passenger pulls gun on pedestrians; Are film incentives worth it?; Buy America makes HSR costly; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Parks and schools
Lighting up Sherman Circle; New parks in NE Capitol Hill?; Benefits of school integration; Too cool for school; New 11th Street bridges on track; PG County gets first “high-end” grocery; Church housing; Fairfax wants chunk of VA surplus; No more back doors. Keep reading…