Posts tagged Fort Meade
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Breakfast links: Correlation is not gentrification
Gentrification by the numbers; Living wage debate restarts; Just tickets for cyclist death; DeBlasio plans to increase housing supply; As base grows, so does Columbia; Loudoun contemplating Silver Line loan; NYC releases safe streets design guide; And…. Keep reading…
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DoD begins encouraging transit for BRAC commuters
The Department of Defense is now promoting alternatives to to the more than 5,800 employees relocating to Fort Meade in August due to the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) changes. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) headquarters is moving from the Pentagon in Virginia to Fort Meade in Maryland, and represents a substantial number of the relocated jobs. Unlike… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transcend the mediocre
Buy now; Midcity?; Truck driver in Swanson incident arrested; Barry the blocker; Changing behavior in Paris without government; And…; Fair use and prior restraint. Keep reading…
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Can MARC serve Fort Meade?
Fort Meade is a transit black hole with growing traffic and horrible parking. I worked on Fort Meade for the better part of a decade. It made me hate commuting more than any Beltway traffic ever did. It is virtually impossible to get there without a car, and the parking is years of expansion beyond critical mass. The disastrous runoff and increasing traffic are wreaking havoc on the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: High-speed suburban buses
ICC buses will go to BWI, Fort Meade; Fairfax plans dedicated bus lanes; C is for calming; Marketing transit; New York Avenue Costco; Cool subway architecture; Come transformare una chiesa; And…. Keep reading…
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Is a Green Line extension wise?
Commenters raised a variety of objections to the possibility of extending the Green Line to Fort Meade, as Prince George’s County is proposing. Some argued that the corridor was not viable to support Metro, it was already served by the Camden Line of MARC, and that it’s too far away from the city. For full disclosure, I am employed at Fort Meade, and I was stationed there… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Get transit-oriented
How about some Oriented Development with your Transit?; Maryland agencies to become more transit-oriented; City-dwelling car-loving writers riding transit; Inalienable right to get light poles moved?; School with safer routes; Now there were three against HOT lanes; People not so mad about ICC tolls. Keep reading…
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Imagine the Green Line to Fort Meade
On Monday night, Prince George’s County voted on its transportation master plan update, including a recommendation to extend the Green Line to Fort Meade. The master plan calls for creating, extending, or widening several highways throughout the county, greenfield development outside the Beltway, and some other Cold War-era fixes to Prince George’s transportation… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Full of hot air
Subway air-powered art; How’s your track doing?; Country lane or hazard to children? Both?; No room for books between the parking lots; Shaw rejoices; Gaithersburg fairly progressive after all; Roundabouts for Maryland, too?; Best cities for singles are walkable. Keep reading…
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cArmy Base: Fort Meade
Military bases dot the landscape all around the Capital region. This is a unique presence, as many cities in America are largely defined by the one or two military bases near their boundaries, like Fayetteville, North Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Kileen, Texas; Norfolk and even San Diego. Washington, DC, however, is home to the entire Federal Government, so a few military bases… Keep reading…