Posts tagged Excessive Parking
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Park(ing) Day highlights the value of green, public space
On September 18th, the region celebrated Park(ing) Day with 33 pop-up parklets in DC, plus more in Maryland and Virginia. The annual event showcases alternative, human-friendly uses for urban parking spaces and is a reminder of the value of public land, no matter how small. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bumps in the road
What’s next White Flint; Ivy City changes; O Street Green; Enough is enough; Go big or go home; Getting there; Bucks win; Housing on HBO. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving, moving, moving
Move to Largo; Wooing Marriott; No more MARC and VRE?; No money for Baltimore; Happy, but noncommital; New start for College Park; Tree hugger; NY ❤ Uber; Too much parking. Keep reading…
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Montgomery won’t make (some) businesses fund parking anymore
Builders in downtown Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Wheaton are now free to build as little parking as they want, without violating zoning rules or paying extra taxes. The change eliminates a major subsidy to driving and will help these suburban centers evolve into walkable urban areas. The new policy, enacted as part of the new county budget, is the result of the simpler, more modern… Keep reading…
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Car owners or not, people who rent pay to park
Parking is expensive. It costs thousands of dollars per stall to build. It occupies valuable real estate. It is ubiquitous, accompanying nearly every building built across the United States. Yet at nearly every destination, drivers don’t directly pay for the parking they use. Instead the cost is hidden, bundled into the grocery bill, benefits package, and rent of every shopper,… Keep reading…
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Fairfax trades a parking lot for a new park
Old Town Square in Fairfax used to be a park that nobody used because it was wedged between two parking lots in the middle of the city’s small, historic core. Now it’s bigger and more inviting, and it’s helping Fairfax embrace its urban roots. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: May day
Budget math; Fare skipping; Baltimore’s deep-rooted problems; Successful service; CaBi workhorse; No parking history; How we commute; Good transit, strong economy; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Depleted resources
Going, going, gone; Family homelessness spikes; Metro turmoil; Riding the rails; Tolling for transit; A world of financial pain; Go, Richmond, Go!; RIP Michael Graves; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Just an inch
Nor’easter; Emergency training; Pop-up primer; Authority for Montgomery?; Minimize parking; Metro affluence; Dependent downsides; City limits or region?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: State of needed repairs
How to pay for transportation?; Inexplicable Metro woes; Metro cuts in the works?; Keep Red Line on track; No more packing peanuts; Just what we needed; Rail to LaGuardia?; And…. Keep reading…