Posts tagged Environment
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Breakfast links: Take transit farther
More Circulator, more expensive; Bike part of the way to work; Up with pop-ups; Even more anti-Purple Line candidate wins; Should Arlington Cemetery expand?; More bike lanes and clarity; Baltimore bikeshare?; Density leads to dollars; An ambitious plan for SW; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Surprising popularity
Reservations over Reservation 13; Traffic cameras are popular; MoCo CaBi coming; Floreen wants lanes; Do we need another highway?; Walk the long way to VRE; More power for ethics?; Small units get big; Safer without stoplights; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Silver Line playbook
Cheaper than we thought; Fairfax re-connects; Silverman asked Frumin to drop out; Did Mara break the rules?; WMATA board boards Metro; What’s Hoover’s replacement?; Older suburbs see teardowns; Carbon emissions in Fairfax; Franklin Park-ing lot?. Keep reading…
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Get parking right and many more events
Spring is here (or maybe it’s just an early summer), and that means there’s lots to do both inside and outside! Next week is an exciting Coalition for Smarter Growth forum on parking with guest Jeff Tumlin, and CSG has many great walking tours through June. You can learn about DC’s civil war forts, celebrate Earth Day on April 20 itself or at fairs before or after,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The future of roads
Highways and climate change; Squeeze in bike lanes; DC gets credit upgrade; Ban the moratorium; Bag fee jitters; Creative class writing; Bracket time; And…. Keep reading…
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Appreciate our furry ecosystem engineers
The DC area’s beaver population has boomed in the past 20 years, and that’s a great thing. It’s a sign that our region’s waterways, having suffered from decades of channelization, pollution, neglect and mismanagement, are starting to regain their ecological health, though much work remains to be done. The industrious creatures’ presence… Keep reading…
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Barry: “Have courage” and pass the Maryland bag fee
Yesterday morning, DC Councilmembers Marion Barry and Tommy Wells went to Annapolis together to brief the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus on the success of DC’s 5¢ disposable bag fee, and ask them to support a similar proposal currently before the Maryland General Assembly. The Community Cleanup and Greening Act (HB1086/SB576) would mirror the District’s… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Music to your ears
Go green; Bike safer; Don’t drive so close to me; Telephone line for safety; A blow to Costco gas; Imagine there’s no Metro; One day more; Life in the fast lane. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Will it happen in Virginia?
Gas tax likely will stay; Not a local income tax; FBI is for Franconia Building Imminent?; Ft. Myer gate closed at night; HOA goes off cliff over Obama sign; Tech will come before mixed-use at St. E’s; Corporations paying their due; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What can you do?
Not so accountable; Hot rent; Green Line report sheds little light; U Street isn’t most-liquored; Hip to be Bethesda?; Smart Growth locally; Where to park; Next Interior head likes bikes?; Transit tidbits. Keep reading…