Posts tagged David Catania
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Breakfast links: State power for car-centrism
VDOT’s way or the highway; Govs pushing Outer Beltway; Obama cuts Metro; Parking no longer King; Oops, we lost your rec center; Some CMs pass on raise; Tunnel too small; Bike to DCA; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Legislative action
Not all love Gray’s budget; Evans introduces bill he didn’t understand; Confusion kills PG bag fee; Privatization reaches Maryland; Property tax to fund BRT?; Bethesda built for cars; WHO likes bikes and pedestrians; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Phones
Pay phones don’t pay; Another use for pay phones; Get off the phone; Forget you!; Don’t shut the door; Second look at suburbs; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: The culture war comes here
Gay rights take step forward; Women’s rights take step backward; Put gentrifiers, not football players, at Res. 13; Simmer down now, DC Council; Council beefs up transportation expertise; Charter schools on the trigger; NO TAGS? $20,000 in tickets; The Tide rolls in; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Is it ethical?
Scandal of the week: Tampa trip; Catania making $240K from electric contractor; Is Metro friendly for kids?; Beware confusing SmarTrip balance readouts; Contractor, MWAA dispute Silver Line delays; Megabus in, tour buses out; Residents disagree on Adams Morgan’s future; DC urges WMATA to hire more residents; Light rail to Charles Co?; And…. Keep reading…
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Councilmembers ask UDC for more parking, student limits
Residents around UDC got 6 of their elected officials to push for parking that city agencies and their own ANC don’t think is necessary, and further pressure on the university to keep students away from other people in the neighborhood. Greater Greater Washington has obtained a copy of a letter sent to UDC President Alan Sessoms on September 29 by Ward 3 Councilmember Mary… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Long-term thinking
DC must plant trees and add green roofs; Liberal professor opposes pro-Democrat gerrymandering; Civil rights activists wrote their own restaurant reviews; Free parking drives driving; NY seeks neighborhood approval for bike stations; California parking reduction meets opposition; And…. Keep reading…
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Tommy Wells explains how we can rethink streets as parks
On Friday people around the world converted street parking spaces into pop-up parks for the annual Park(ing) Day. The event inspired people in our own region to rethink how we can rearrange public spaces to improve our quality of life. DC Councilmembers Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) and David Catania (I-at large) combined their parking spaces outside the Wilson Building to create… Keep reading…
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Wells, Catania organize Park(ing) Day on Pennsylvania Ave
For Park(ing) Day tomorrow, DC Councilmembers Tommy Wells and David Catania will turn 2 of the councilmember-only spaces in front of the Wilson Building into a temporary park. Casey Trees will do the same in Dupont, and the Montgomery planning department in Silver Spring. Park(ing) Day started as a performance art project from Rebar Group, which made a park out of one San Francisco… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Provocative suggestions
Move the jail to Buzzard Point?; Allow bottled water on Metro?; 2 Councilmembers call for Thomas to resign; Charlottesville getting bad bypass; Driver killed cyclist in hit-and-run; Historic trolley station to be preserved; Explore interactive census data; And…. Keep reading…