Posts tagged Csx
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This vacant tower could become your favorite new bar
There’s an old rail control tower on 2nd Street SW, a few blocks from where CSX is rebuilding the Virginia Avenue Tunnel, and CSX has agreed to do major work on the tower as part of the rail project. Could it become a museum or a bar? Could someone live there? There are great possibilities, but also unique challenges. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Who gets the blame
You’re fired; Silver Line scapegoat?; Metro’s disability dilemma; Is standing on escalators better?; Big plans for Grosvenor; Big garage, big impact; Flexible transit benefits?; Victims’ struggle; VA expands road & rail; Go home when?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hijackings and low points
Metrobus hijacking; Metro’s bad report; Fear of trains; Dethroning slumlords; Make way for the Purple Line; Defeating displacement; No urge to surge; Testing, testing; The new group house; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Derailed
A bad derailment; The battle over Westbard; Transit for Tobytown; Office oversupply; Reconsidering DC’s ‘burbs; Keeping the space in AdMo; Sidwell friends or enemies?; Young and ready to build. Keep reading…
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Check out the status of the new Virginia Avenue rail tunnel
Once work to make the Virginia Avenue train tunnel deeper and wider is finished, taller and more efficient trains will be able to pass through, and there will be fewer Amtrak and VRE delays. Here’s an update on how the project is progressing. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Budget bliss and big boulevards
Budget autonomy for the District; Wide plans for Rockville Pike; Bye bye Bi-County Parkway; Lyft discrimination; DCRA’s document drag; Metro-free nuclear zone; Proximity is key; Federally walk-blocked; What’s in a name?; And…. Keep reading…
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A new bikeway along Virginia Ave SE will connect the Anacostia to Capitol Hill
CSX is rebuilding the railroad tunnel under Virginia Avenue SE, which means tearing up and rebuilding the streetscape. When the project is finished, the street will have a new sidewalk and bikeway next to each other, along with a new connection to a trail that runs along the Anacostia River. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Parking and the pope
Ferrying feds to parking; More papal problems; Tunnel treats; Bounded body cameras; Walkable suburbs; Seattle’s subway; Run or ride?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Sadness
Tragedy; Bridge blues; Advertising ban; Go on-dola; New bike lanes?; HOT and bothered; 220 problems; Barriers to biking; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Exact or enact
Tax dump; Raising fare; Purchasing power; Door no more; Any alternative; Still free, less range; Identity crisis; And…. Keep reading…