Posts tagged Columbia Pike
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New security at Fort Myer blocks a major bicycle connection
Fort Myer is tightening security starting this week, which will severely restrict or eliminate the chance for people on bikes to traverse the base. It’s now even more urgent to build new bicycle links that get people through and around this area. The base, Joint Base Fort Myer/Henderson Hall, wraps around the west side of Arlington Cemetery. It has long been open to people… Keep reading…
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Is “the GGW agenda” dead? No, but it’s hard to build transit
Former Chevy Chase mayor and longtime Purple Line foe David Lublin provocatively wrote that “the Greater Greater Washington agenda” is “a fading dream” after a year of bad news for transit in our region. While we appreciate his compliment in choosing us to pick on, he’s wrong. Lublin notes that Arlington canceled the Columbia Pike streetcar,… Keep reading…
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How to tell the difference between streetcars and light rail
There is much confusion over what separates streetcars from light rail. That’s because there’s no single easy way to tell, and many systems are hybrids. To tell the difference, one has to simultaneously look at the tracks, train vehicles, and stations. It’s hard to tell the difference because streetcars and light rail are really the same technology,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Do the math
A question of when; How murders are counted; Streetcars starting later in January; Startups help economic diversity; Pop-up comeuppance; Fields not football; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New year, new leadership
Meet the new boss; New transit in 2015; New plan for Arlington; Gray saves affordable housing; CaBi extends Metro; Sweden leads in road safety; Beijing goes big; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Democracy now
DC demands respect; How we gonna pay?; Not really inclusionary; Get us a traffic signal; Office vacancies; More trees please; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Life of a Mayor
Marion Barry dies; Olympics group eyes venues; Improve the stadium deal; Wilson changes popular; From nowhere to NoMa; What’s next for streetcars; No Hollywood here; And…. Keep reading…
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Without a streetcar, what’s next for Columbia Pike, technically and politically?
After a decade of planning, officials in Arlington cancelled the Columbia Pike streetcar this week. If streetcars aren’t going to be the answer on there, what might realistically happen instead? In the wake of the streetcar’s cancellation, some have suggested Metrorail, BRT, or light rail. None are likely. The county will probably just end up running articulated… Keep reading…
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Transit projects are stuck between people who want to spend less money and people who want to spend more
Transit projects in the Washington region are going through a tough period. The Columbia Pike streetcar is dead, the DC streetcar delayed and had its funding cut, and Maryland just elected a governor who’s at best skeptical about the Purple Line. Any transit project seems to have many critics. Why all the negativity? People who agree with the decision to cancel the project… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Next stop?
Surface rail is on shaky ground; Will Reeves remain?; Reverends for rain gardens; Take down a parking lot; Busboys to Anacostia; Cycletracks safer for peds; Bell tolls for toll roads; And…. Keep reading…