Posts tagged Construction
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Breakfast links: How we house
Housing boom; Rent disparity; Commutes between counties; A history of public pools; Buses for the region; The name stays; Football facility fail; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Smaller footprints
Fewer feds raises revenues; Smile, you’re on camera; Paying for permitting; Downsizing; Bridge rebuilding; MARC moves to diesel; Beautification Day no more; Like father, not like son. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Future visions
Data-based sting; Affordability counts; Keep the warehouses; Hard choices; Schools shift credit; Highway funding fixes; I hate the interstate; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hogan’s plans
New deadlines; Highway veteran; On the waterfront; Vision zero kick-off; Green schools are too much; Transportation bill moves; The other side of the tracks; Shifting right; Frequent driver miles. Keep reading…
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A Maryland road widening will be more costly than the transit it replaces
Maryland governor Larry Hogan wants to build roads with money saved from cancelling the Baltimore Red Line and cutting back the Purple Line. The governor says the two light rail lines cost too much. But his marquee highway project, a wider Route 404 on the Eastern Shore, looks to be far less cost-effective than either. The Route 404 widening will turn 12 miles of two-lane… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hogan’s choices
Purple haze; Red riot; Highway work; Metro’s next steps; Worth the cost; Need parking?; Bad roads; Fair housing win; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Step by step
Memorial walk; Metro’s stalled recovery; DC’s transportation experiments; Careful bike lanes; Recycling woes; Tiny apartments; Constant construction; The Pope is a planner?; Faded renewal; And …. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Train trouble
Midday single-tracking and more; An open invitation; Bus blight?; Pot prohibitions stay in place; Waterfront woes; Affordable housing everywhere; Growing apart; And…. Keep reading…
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It’s about to get easier to build mid-rises in DC
Soon, it might be a lot easier and less expensive to build mid-rise buildings along transit corridors in DC. This is thanks to a 2015 update to the International Building Code. The View at Waterfront, a proposed 85’ tall wood-framed building. Rendering by SK+I Architecture. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Protests in Charm City
Baltimore erupts; Silver slows; Mayoral legacies; Grow east young man; Let them roam; MTA moving on; The perfect spot; Building a Bridj; And…. Keep reading…