Posts tagged Dc
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Tregoning, Wells bash blank wall on Ukraine memorial
DC Office of Planning Director Harriet Tregoning and Councilmember Tommy Wells criticized the design for the planned memorial to the Ukrainian Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 on Massachusetts Avenue near Union Station, primarily for of the way it turns a blank wall to F Street. Both ultimately voted against the design at yesterday’s meeting of the National Capital Planning… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Share the load
Path will be too narrow; Lanier talks tickets; Initiatives face confusion; Another taxi app; Windy City wants safer walking; Elevated bike highways: good idea?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Police work
Stop crime through design; Photography still not a crime; Report bad drivers; What’s the standard?; Good, bad, ugly of Romney’s smart growth record; Types of trails; And…. Keep reading…
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Grassy triangle will become a plaza and Ukrainian memorial
A small, empty grass triangle just west of Union Station will soon be a new memorial. Victims of the Ukranian Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 will get memorialized, and residents and workers will get a usable plaza. The back side of the memorial, however, will turn a mostly blank wall to F Street. Keep reading…
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Voting in DC is not a waste
A former Washington City Paper reporter intern says he never registered to vote in DC while living here, because his vote doesn’t count. This is an all-too-common attitude among many residents. But your vote does count in DC, in a great many important ways. Matt Bevilacqua, who now writes for Next American City in Philadelphia, wrote today that it took him 2 whole afternoons… Keep reading…
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A simpler design will strengthen the Bond at Tenley
A building proposed for Tenleytown deserves praise for putting density in the right spot, but its design is too fractured to contribute to the character of Tenleytown. Although the building fills the majority of the lot and is lined with retail, it is neither an interesting work of architecture nor a quiet background building. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Too conventional?
Gray misses statehood talk; Democrats quiet on transit; DC feeling the heat; Even hotter?; Let the best rise?; MPD folds special unit; And…. Keep reading…
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Visitor parking passes won’t go citywide, yet
The District’s pilot program of visitor parking passes recently expanded to Ward 1 and the Howard Theatre area of Ward 6, but contrary to some recent press reports, it isn’t yet expanding the program citywide. DDOT is, however, currently studying what to do for the long term with visitor parking and other parking policy questions. A few years ago, DDOT tried a pilot… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting there
Metro raises SmarTrip minimum; Passenger trains come back to Norfolk; Gray and employment; Flooding problems; Reflecting Pool reopens; Bypasses go out of favor; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Making plans
A new library; A Ward 7 Walmart; More CaBi for Arlington; WMATA hires in planning and development; Maryland sees crime rate fall; Don’t “like” new Facebook HQ; Dresden rolls out longest bus; And…. Keep reading…