Posts tagged Crime
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Breakfast links: Pointing fingers
Official scapegoats Smart Growth; Leggett reprimands council; Election results still not all in; DNC contradicts DC Democrats; Charters gain increasing share; All options on the table for the FBI’s HQ; Are the police choking or pushing?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bumper weekend
Driver strikes 3 protestors… intentionally?; WMATA wants to break radio silence; Borrowing is the new stealing?; Attend a town hall by hashtag; Gentrification, or more diversity?; DC Democrats become less democratic; RI Ave ped/bike bridge moving forward; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Patience is a virtue
Slower speeds may come to DC; Bag fee increases shoplifting?; One man owes $17 million in back taxes; Bike “garage” slated for Franconia; Struggle on the waterfront; BRAC bits; Utah entitled to Arizona highways; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Boo[ndoggles]
Shootings mar Halloween; TE “boondoggles” never got funded; Evans’ firm represented hotel partner; 3 years to MoCo BRT?; Metro ridership going down; New Tourmobile now, Circulator later; Tenants purchase building after fight; And…. Keep reading…
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New York Avenue bicycle thief caught, then released
At the beginning of October, I caught a young boy in the act of stealing a bicycle wheel at the New York Avenue Metro station. Last night, I helped police finally catch him. But he wasn’t arrested. Jaime and I were taking a quick walking tour of NoMa with ANC 6C04 commissioner Tony Goodman when we saw the boy ride his bike past us. An extra bicycle wheel was hanging from the handlebars. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Suburban moods
Tysons, a transit and walking wasteland; Arlington isn’t going anywhere; Toll builders pay to play; Georgetown v. neighbors v. Post; AdMo streetscape not pleasing all; Cost of housing up; NVTC still waiting for capital money; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Crumbling no longer
Walmart site was “land banked”; See National Cathedral’s damage; Metrobus steps up tracking; DC’s GU campus posture unfair; DC has deadliest week this year; Middle schools inequitable across the river?; NPS working with pedicabs; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Inner city blues
East of the river’s self-fulfilling prophecy; Howland can’t use transportation the rest of us do; Right-to-Life Metro; Driver assaults group of cyclists on parkway; Can we get streetscape relief right?; How long is your commute?; MD redistricting advances; Charm City removes bike lane; community asks why?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What you can’t have
Chinatown development scaled down… again; Parking permit exclusion among new bills; MoCo goes for mixed-use; Lawn mowing contract creates buzz; Why a fee shifting bill for cyclists?; Misspelled signs vanish quickly; Bikeshare-style car sharing launches in Paris; And…. Keep reading…
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To address bicycle crime, Metro PD should take it seriously
WMATA is trying to fight bicycle crime, the Examiner reported last week, and theft has declined somewhat this year. My experience with an a vandalized bike shows a few ways they can continue to improve. On Thursday, September 22, on my way home from work and a community meeting, I stopped to pick up my bicycle at the New York Avenue Metro station. Nearby was another bicycle, with many… Keep reading…