Posts tagged Gas Prices
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Dinner links: Around and about the Beltway
Wheaton is smart; Hyattsville is getting smarter; East County loses again; Tuss recovers from EDJS, CCT still ailing; Don’t carpool; you might cost Virginia money; The best car; Good ol’ WSJ; What do futures traders know about oil?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Lies, damn lies and statistics
Bus stop 2020; Traffic counters for DOD ignore bicycles; LaHood Rebuts George Will; Think of the children; Downtown back on top; Carless households down; Transit not part of Post’s analysis; Baltimore bike map; Yeah, where are the flying cars?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Running away with it
What about those old car dealerships?; Navarro wins; Transit bait-and-switch; MARC gives the wrong information; Gas prices going up; Outdoor classrooms; What a robbery looks like. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: People creating neat charts and graphs
Baltimore 15-minute map; Why people are driving less; A hopelessly sprawly exurb and a somewhat walkable one; Stop paving over your front yard; Should DC hybrid drivers be able to use VA HOV lanes?; Mixed-use federal buildings?; National Harbor says reroute is for safety; Boxer might sell out good transportation again. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Visions of transportation
WABA action: restore Columbia Road bike lanes; Trail users “undesirable” to one Vienna councilmember; Making Thomas Circle a usable park; Baltimore Red Line fight looking a lot like purple; Cheaper gas changing little; Zoning Commission hears from proponents; DC unveils artistic bike racks; At least we’re not in London; People near transit own fewer cars. Keep reading…
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The era of big commute is over
The “end of the exurbs” trend narrative story has hit the Washington Post front page, with a very good article by Eric (”War on Drivers”) Weiss. As we well know, families just aren’t moving out to the fringe of the metropolitan area for cheap housing yet grueling commutes; “the days of building giant houses on former soybean fields on the outer… Keep reading…
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Lunch links: National trends edition
Trend story of the moment: whites moving into the city: First it was “gas prices so high some people are giving up driving,” followed by “record transit ridership in [insert city here].” Now, a pair of articles in The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic may represent the next media narrative. Both discuss the trend of whites moving to the city and its effects,… Keep reading…
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Best places to live… if gas were still $1.50
Money has one of those silly rankings of the best places to live in America. Columbia, Maryland is #8; Hunter Mill, Sully, and Burke, Virginia #19, 25, and 31 respectively; Gaithersburg #29, Reston #37, and Rockville #66. Keep reading…
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Brunch links: times they are a-changin’ edition
Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of the empty Federal Triangle: The GSA is considering a public-private partnership for the underutilized Old Post Office building. Redevelopment might include restaurants, residences and/or a hotel in place of or in addition to the current government offices (while preserving the building, of course). Eleanor Holmes Norton is pushing a bill to… Keep reading…
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This Modern World on gas prices
A humorous look at Americans’ short-range thinking on what kinds of cars to buy. My favorite part of the comic is actually the wardrobe changes of the characters from decade to decade. The comic does bring up a more serious point: our development and driving patterns will change with high gas prices, but only as long as people believe prices will stay high. Right now, they do. Via… Keep reading…