Posts tagged Columbia Pike
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Breakfast links: All together now
Wholesale overhaul; McDuffie vs. Bowser; Sue me; Where has my bus bench gone; Underground McMillan party; Build on a parking lot; First family settles in; Council tweets for the tweeple. Keep reading…
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Arlington’s naysayer-in-chief is now its chair. Will she move the county forward?
Two years ago, Libby Garvey was the lone voice on the Arlington County Board opposing most of the county’s major capital projects. On January 1, she was elected the board’s chair. Garvey has spent most of the last two years being most vocal about what she was against. We’re familiar with her opposition to the controversial Columbia Pike and Crystal City streetcar,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Let’s talk
GM making the rounds; Uber rides for all; Accessible Metro; Don’t stop the bus; The right stuff; See something, report something; Spend wisely; Verdict not in, yet; Make way; Historical street view. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: From traffic to transit
Purple proposals are in; DC traffic fines climb; Multimodal demands on 395; Putting up money for murals; Prince William transit woes; Holy affordable housing; No school left behind; Bridging VA to MD; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Wheeling and dealing
Rail and trail; Georgetown at the Franklin; We have a deal; Streetcar substitute; Klingle conversion coming; VRE growth spurt; Split spreads; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s fair?
Frequency doesn’t equal fares; No public trust for big projects; Urban farming’s DC debut; Fee for PG; Bike in MD; A home built for bikes; Graduation rates up in DC; Inclusionary density for SF; And…. Keep reading…
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Why monorail pods are not a serious solution for Columbia Pike
The designers of a monorail-like personal rapid transit (PRT) system hope to sell their technology to Arlington, to replace the cancelled Columbia Pike streetcar. It’s a terrible idea. Keep reading…
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Arlington just got a new bridge and sidewalks, but light poles sprout from the middle of the old ones nearby
Freedmen’s Bridge, which carries Washington Boulevard over Columbia Pike near the Pentagon in Arlington, was just rebuilt. So was its underpass. The sidewalks are wider now, but a few obstacles make using them difficult. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s on the Pike?
Plans for the Pike; Loss of communication; Schools, the commute killer; Quarry’s coming; I believe in MPD; Behind Marriott’s move; Suburbia, socially engineered; Cruising out of style; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Slow down
If you build them; Keeping kids safe; Metro slows; Don’t stop; From streetcar to monorail; Electric merger rejected; Don’t yield to the law; And…. Keep reading…