Posts tagged Dpw
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Breakfast links: Adjust your plans
Leave your car at home; Everything longer on the Blue Line; Housing beats offices; How to make housing affordable; What happens in Tenleytown; Trashy work; Senator leaves big shoes to fill; Crosswalk enforcement; Bike in a skirt; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Deal or no deal
Soccer stadium deal pending; Spy versus preservationists; Budget autonomy overturned; Better cycling around the Mall; Silver Line a step closer; Metro signs say what?; Springtime for Hitler bus ads; McDuffie for McMillan; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Malign neglect
Public housing demolition by neglect; Homeless in DC; Intersection of less-certain doom; The price of control; Sticker shock; Brookland bidding war; Hide your cans; Until it goes “click”; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cycle stats
Even more bike, lately; Trash can follies; Transit center blues; The Show-Me Station?; Shape Bethesda; Running from streetcars; Slow down; Selling public space for private gain; Drones of Brookland; And…. Keep reading…
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Mary Cheh wants to break up DC’s transportation agency
The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) has gotten too large and unwieldy to carry out all facets of its mission, says DC Councilmember Mary Cheh. Cheh has introduced a bill to reorganize transportation-related functions, create some new agencies, and abolish one. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Good neighbors, good fences
Fence offense; Skyland is coming; Moving toward autonomy; Arlington retail in good shape; Bikeshare is good for business; Bottoms up; Marijuana stumps DCHA; How much house is enough?; Photo enforcement, parking edition; Discouraging driving; And…. Keep reading…
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Are sidewalks and bike lanes getting cleared of snow?
4-8 inches of snow fell on the region yesterday, as you are surely aware. That means that all road users, drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists have to navigate snowy streets. Property owners sometimes are diligent about clearing their vehicular paths but not sidewalks. How about this time? Some businesses and institutions won’t have had a chance to clear snow by this morning… Keep reading…
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Mobile GIS could help track little problems around DC
Downtown DC Business Improvement District employees use a hand-held geographic information system (GIS) to track public space problems like broken fire hydrants. Could this technology also help DC government employees, like trash collectors? ESRI, the company that makes the most commonly-used GIS software in the United States, has a quarterly newsletter called ArcNews. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bigger and better Metro
No extension on extension decision; Safety on the rise; More sprawl faster; No parking for post; Hine closer to consensus; Rant wrong on libertarianism, right on DPW failure; Crystal City will be more crystal-like; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Oldest inhabitants
DC wants to keep its WWI memorial; Audit for Union Station management; Death in Rockville crash; Shady deal in Catoe’s Metro; An avalanche of tickets; Think of the tourists; Madrid swaps highway for park; Battle of the buses; Core capacity for BART. Keep reading…