Posts tagged Environment
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Submit your comments against I-66 widening
Tomorrow (Wednesday) is the last day to submit written comments to VDOT about their proposed widening of I-66 in Arlington. To comment, click this email link. Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: Best medicine for a depression
Purple good for business: The Washington Business Journal endorses continuing to fund the Purple Line despite the economic downturn (along with the ICC). Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: End of the world as we know it
OMG 140 people might live on Wisconsin! City Paper shows a flyer warning people of traffic mayhem if the Giant project is built on Wisconsin Avenue in McLean Gardens. In an email to the Cleveland Park list, opponent Nancy MacWood wrote, “I think many of us have assumed that we would absorb some of the District’s move to attract new residents. … But frankly no one contemplated… Keep reading…
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1960s highway thinking dangerous for Maryland
The Intercounty Connector was a bad idea in the first place, but recent events have deepened the scale of Maryland’s mistake in approving this project. The costs continue to spiral, like the new $100 million cost overrun we found out about last month. And rising gas prices have made any hope of recouping costs through tolls increasingly a pipe dream. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cyclists rock
Cyclists are better shoppers: A German survey found that cyclists buy more from stores than motorists; they buy less each trip, but make more trips, giving stores more opportunities to persuade them to buy extra items. (Twin Cities Streets for People) Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Montgomery County extravaganza
SmartBike in MoCo? Councilmember Valerie Ervin (Silver Spring) is suggesting a SmartBike system for Montgomery County, with stations “in the downtowns of high-density area such as Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Wheaton and Bethesda.” How about making it compatible with DC’s, so someone could one day pick up a bike in Bethesda, ride to Friendship Heights or Tenleytown… Keep reading…
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Widening I-66 is far from insignificant
As we discussed last week, the Virginia Department of Transportation will be presenting environmental review documents to justify widening I-66 from two lanes to three lanes for significant portions between Rosslyn and West Falls Church. The environmental review documents are in the form of a Categorical Exclusion, which under NEPA means that the widening would not have… Keep reading…
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Hybrid taxis: the crushing burden of the tax break nobody will use?
Today, a handful of business owners showed up to oppose a tax break for themselves because of burdens that the bill won’t impose, while other Councilmembers oppose it because they don’t think it will work. And thus, in the bizarre land of today’s hearing, a completely voluntary tax incentive that nobody will take advantage of will put people out of business who… Keep reading…
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How’re those meters working out?
[Autoposted while I’m in France] Keep reading…
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DC Council is baaaack!
Today is the first Council legislative session after the recess. Right now Councilmembers just finished introducing bills. Here are a few of particular relevance: Keep reading…