Posts tagged Crime
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Breakfast links: Taking aim
Shooting in Columbia Heights; Dissecting the transportation bill; Dulles United? Wheaton United?; Finally thinking about peds and bikes; Green Falls Church?; Stopping “jamitons”. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Today in buildings
If you don’t like your historic building, let it fall down?; You say “of its time,” I say “faux modernism”; Making the FBI building work; Good plan, bad design for Walgreens?; Hotel isn’t more important than everything else; Purple Line beats opponents, highways at TPB; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Running away with it
What about those old car dealerships?; Navarro wins; Transit bait-and-switch; MARC gives the wrong information; Gas prices going up; Outdoor classrooms; What a robbery looks like. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Survey says
The transit divide; Suburbanites want more city amenities; Bag fees would cut bags 80%; Roads don’t pay for themselves; Open Champlain, already; Look at those cute bicyclists!. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving right through
Klein reveals stimulus grant priorities; Drive-thru, not bike-thru; Metro route choice survey back; Construction closes both sides of 6th Street; Banning throwing away clean bags?; Green buildings versus green cities; What do we do about crime?. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Visions of transportation
WABA action: restore Columbia Road bike lanes; Trail users “undesirable” to one Vienna councilmember; Making Thomas Circle a usable park; Baltimore Red Line fight looking a lot like purple; Cheaper gas changing little; Zoning Commission hears from proponents; DC unveils artistic bike racks; At least we’re not in London; People near transit own fewer cars. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: pigging out
Where’s the food court?: One reason for the new signs on the Mall: tourists not only often don’t know what the tall obelisk is in the center, for example, but officials “often get calls from the public asking if there is a Nordstrom on the Mall.” (Post via BeyondDC) Keep reading…
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Task force addressing juvenile crime in DC
While crime in the District is generally decreasing, crimes committed by juveniles remains a significant problem across many DC neighborhoods. Some crimes committed by juveniles appear to be growing in their intensity and violence. Adolescence is marked by frequent turning points that can bring about positive outcomes, such as entering a high performing school or finding part-time… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting around the Old Dominion
Next stop Lynchburg: A Virginia board approved funding for two new daily trains, one from Lynchburg to DC via Charlottesville and Culpeper, and the other from Richmond to DC. The service could begin as early as October. (News Advance via Stephen) Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: many ways to be greater
Better architecture through zoning: New York’s Zoning Act of 1919 directly begat the “iconic ziggurat” style prewar skyscrapers. That law required a specific envelope to preserve light and air, and those shapes, it turns out, maximize the buildable square footage. Too bad they later replaced that zoning rule with a basic Floor Area Ratio one that encouraged… Keep reading…