Posts tagged Ghost Bike
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Breakfast links: More, more, more
More night buses, please; VRE gets stuffed; Hoyer hates commuter tax; Big box can be urban, or not; No transit is more dangerous; Standards hamper New Haven; Sunroof for the subway?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Power struggles
Pepco has reliability problems; Orange Crush will continue; Fairfax Fire and Rescue wants design by fire truck; Education advice for Gray; Traffic deaths down in DC; More pay-by-cell parking in MoCo; Ghost bike in Fairfax; A responsive transit agency in Rhode Island; And…. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Irrational conduct on roads
Ur doing it wrong, traffic engineers; Bikes should defer to irrational drivers; BART has farecard cheating problem; How walkable is your VA or MD city?; Why is urbanism liberal?; Revisiting the flawed Urban Mobility Report; Bus driver recovers ghost bike. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: One step forward, one step back
Good and bad news for Ward 7 development; Germantown ghost bike, investigation; Judge’s ignorance used against cyclists; Moses’ legacy alive at NY state DOT; More in New York; Our artiest, decoest building; Councilmembers Michael Brown?; Way too hot. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trees and tickets
Save your trees; Business cuts tree; DC leaders and traffic infractions; Kwame in the hole; Remembering Swanson’s death and inaction; Your house in an 8-bit video game; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Big links on big stories
RIP Constance Holden; Outcry smashing ARTS overlay cap; Gaithersbargain wins straw poll; Not all Loudoun roads need to be 8 lanes; Pulitzer for distracted driving reporting; And…; Development dispatches. Keep reading…
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Alice’s Blend: The people behind the ghost bike saga
(All the buzz over the ghost bikes at Dupont Circle made me wonder: who are the people caught up in this controversy anyway? I used a recent assignment for a feature writing class I’m enrolled in as an excuse to tackle the question.) Ruth E. Rowan and Legba Carrefour aren’t the likeliest of pairs. Rowan, 59, a part-time finance professor at Clark University in Massachusetts, describes… Keep reading…
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The rest of the ghost bike story
Dave Stroup of why.i.hate.dc has tracked down the gory details of the ghost bike removal. Keep reading…
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Ghost bikes going, giant musician bike coming
There are two unrelated pieces of news involving bicycles and public art this morning. First, despite DDOT’s signs that said the ghost bikes at Connecticut and R would be removed in 10 days, DC workers hauled them away yesterday. Was this another miscommunciation between DDOT and DPW? DDOT seemed to be making an effort to at least handle the issue in a less haphazard way, but then… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Using asphalt for green activities
Park(ing) on 14th and around the world; Fresh food good, traffic bad; This time around, respect for ghost bikes; Tysons sprawl plan also neglects bikes; Rail in southern Prince George’s?; Living in a theme park; Pushing for openness in NY. Keep reading…