Posts tagged Georgetown
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The story behind Georgetown’s street grid
If there is one thing that people love the most about Georgetown, it’s the small blocks filled with 18th and 19th century homes. But how exactly did it come to be that way? Much of the land that would eventually become Georgetown was originally granted to a Scotsman named Ninian Beall in 1703. Beall named this 705 acre plot of land the Rock of Dumbarton in a reference to his native… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rail to bust
Bus stop sticker shock; Midnight closings hard to swallow; Georgetown’s gentrification; Visitor parking pass vigilante; June Housing Bloom; Two more weeks for the Purple Line; Patent on pedestrian safety; And…. Keep reading…
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DC’s streetcar may go to Georgetown with dedicated lanes
You read that headline right — dedicated lanes! After lots of transportation experts and pundits said DC’s streetcar needed dedicated lanes if it’s to be valuable, DC transportation planners designed an option for extending the streetcar which devotes a lane for almost all of the length from Union Station to Georgetown. Keep reading…
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Big developments serve a huge need, but smaller ones help cities too
It’s pretty common to see new buildings with hundreds of units going up across the region. But what about smaller buildings, going up one at a time? That kind of small scale development, also referred to as incremental development, is an important part of building a city. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Revitalize vs. regress
Wider sidewalks for Georgetown; Chinatown sans Verizon Center; The future of Howard Theater; Homes for “grandfamilies”; Montgomery’s share of the Purple Line; Transit talk for I-66; Accident becomes crash; No more NextBus; Bet on education; Metro makes the news; Fair on housing and crime; Less zoning, more housing. Keep reading…
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Who needs Metro? Duck Rapid Transit is the answer to the Blue Line crunch
This article was posted as an April Fool’s joke. Metro’s total shutdown earlier this month forced many people to travel by other means for the day. But maybe that’s just the way things should be. All the time. It would be much cheaper to get around using existing water infrastructure if the region built Duck Rapid Transit (DuRT). Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Baffling bike blockages
L St bike lane blues; Arlington’s bike plan is ancient; Westbard’s way forward; Pepco-Exelon approved; The area grows; The history behind Reston; Gondola study gears up; Metro union impressed with Wiedefeld; Send in the drones; NYPD v. pedestrian; Behind BART’s twitter. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Turning the corner
A new era?; Behind the Metro mess; More safety inspections; Stuck in the door; Good news for CaBi; Fountain’s revival; Alexandria skyscraper; Take two for gas-to-condos; Taming transit costs; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New homes and homeless
Housing vs plaza; Maker space and more; Homeless in Georgetown; Metro passes for students; Click for paratransit?; Purple Line details; Rail not welcome; Where Williams works; Crime down; Raiding the wrong house. Keep reading…
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Housing atop Georgetown’s Safeway would have strengthened the neighborhood
Retail is struggling in upper Georgetown, and a big reason is because not all that many people live there. Safeway could have added housing when it redesigned its Wisconsin Avenue store, but says it didn’t because doing so would have delayed building. That was a lost opportunity. Keep reading…