Posts tagged Earthquake
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Breakfast links: Visible progress
Montgomery zoning rewrite is good; 15th Street cycle track now for cyclists again; See Metro rebuild tracks; What to do with RFK?; Too many hotels?; Metro dealing with full parking lots; 2 bike deaths, 1 set of charges; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Under pressure
Pressure mounts on DC middle schools; Bowser has her own ethics challenge; Tenants sue over living conditions; Earthquake caused more damage than thought; No fault in Jefferson Memorial arrests; Don’t call it a bribe; Everyone doesn’t love a party; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Capital Bikeshare delivers
CaBi to expand further; CaBi employee recovers a stolen bike; CaBi blew SmartBike away; Chinatown Metro is really is crowded; Steps forward and back for transparency; What if Arlington never left DC?; No such thing as a free highway; Pedestrianize Penn Ave on Sundays?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Quick expiration
Once you pop, the scandals don’t stop; Driver intentionally hits cyclist; House bill doesn’t cut Metro funding; Silver Line snippets; Don’t photograph anything in DC; Mark Center: planning disaster, terror disaster; Cathedral crane crashes; Great Streets delay elicits ire; And…. Keep reading…
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Sherman Building at Soldiers’ Home damaged in earthquake
The Armed Forces Retirement Home, known for many years as the Soldiers’ Home, is tucked away on a beautiful campus near North Capitol Street in upper northwest Washington. This past week’s earthquake did substantial damage—millions of dollars worth—to one of the most distinctive and iconic buildings on the entire campus, Scott Hall (now known as… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Batten the hatches
Blow and crack; Segregation varies greatly by region; School reform sees racial disparity; Who will manage the streetcars?; Jaffe misses the blight; OP review limited on 2 Walmarts; Capital yard-share; Ferry transit may be an option; And…. Keep reading…
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A real evacuation plan wouldn’t look like Tuesday
Imagine we needed to evacuate downtown DC and Arlington quickly, in the middle of the day. What would be the best way to do that? We know what wouldn’t work: telling all employees to go home at the same time. That’s pretty much what happened Tuesday after the earthquake. No bridges or roads were damaged, though some traffic signals had switched to flashing red or had… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Making the roads safer
College Park camera upheld; Biking getting safer; Not so deluxe; Car insurance limits too low?; Whither the streetcar?; Name that memorial; First woman driver, 111 years ago; Maryland may raise gas tax; And…. Keep reading…
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DC earthquake history dates back to 1828
It was a close one, but we survived yesterday’s earthquake. Some remember last year’s quake, but did you know that their recorded history in DC goes back as far as John Quincy Adams in 1828? According to the US Geological Survey, Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The earth moved
Welcome to the seismic zone; What’s damaged; What’s closed; Transportation bounces back; What were you thinking?; Bikes came in handy; Tweets beat the quake; Gray aides broke laws; Get ready for Irene; Meanwhile…. Keep reading…