Posts tagged Downtown Dc
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DC’s streetcar may go to Georgetown with dedicated lanes
You read that headline right — dedicated lanes! After lots of transportation experts and pundits said DC’s streetcar needed dedicated lanes if it’s to be valuable, DC transportation planners designed an option for extending the streetcar which devotes a lane for almost all of the length from Union Station to Georgetown. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A different track
ICYMI; Bring on the buses; Homeless families on the rise; Car2go2more places; From retail to residence; Tall Oaks short on retail; Make the grade; Gaithersburg, the most diverse city; Traffic nightmare or hidden art?; 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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Breakfast links: Stay safe and share
Vision Zero comes to Alexandria; Bikeshare for College Park; Suggested shelter changes; Expert expectations; Downtown’s ups and downs; SelectPass going strong; Firearms in Ward 5; Bikes that grow; And…. Keep reading…
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DC has few “parking craters” downtown. Here’s why.
Most American downtowns are surrounded by “parking craters,” or big spaces with swaths of parking lots and no buildings. But they have virtually disappeared from DC (all the parking for Congress being a key exception, of course) because downtown office space is in high demand and because each building can only be so tall. Keep reading…
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After the FBI moves, Pennsylvania Ave could be reborn
The FBI is decamping from its headquarters in the J. Edgar Hoover building, leaving the deteriorating 1974 brutalist building and its site on Pennsylvania Avenue up for reinvention. You can weigh in on what comes next for the site. Keep reading…
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How downtown parking is like your smartphone
Would you rather pay $27 a month or $2.50 a month for your phone? A lower price means more dollars in your pocket, right? But what if one of those were an iPhone and the other a flip phone? Keep reading…
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The YMCA is closing its downtown branch, and our contributors have something to say about it
The DC YMCA recently decided to close its downtown National Capital location. Many community members are unhappy with the decision to sell the 37-year old location for redevelopment. Keep reading…
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Here’s where a protected bikeway could go on the east side of downtown
People who want to ride a bike north-south along the east side of DC’s central business district and in Shaw could soon have a new protected bikeway to do it. A new study recommends four options, including 6th Street NW, 5th and 6th, or 9th. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Autumn of our discontent
What’s next for Museum Square; Red card Buzzard Point; Fight fires not parking tickets; Don’t blame pedestrians; Salary standstill; Uber to the rescue; Two wheels or two feet?; Which city?. Keep reading…