Posts tagged Government
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Breakfast links: Moving right through
Klein reveals stimulus grant priorities; Drive-thru, not bike-thru; Metro route choice survey back; Construction closes both sides of 6th Street; Banning throwing away clean bags?; Green buildings versus green cities; What do we do about crime?. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: New on the scene
Riding the Metro for the first time; This video could help; Chevy Chase candidates differ on fighting Purple Line; Take a left onto Bike Interstate 101; Specter used to be a bike messenger; Navarro wins primary; Jobs the anti-preservationist; Detroit depot as federal offices?. Keep reading…
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Live chat with Mary Cheh
Welcome to our live chat with Mary Cheh, Councilmember of the District of Columbia (Ward 3) and Chairperson of the Committee on Government Operations and the Environment. Keep reading…
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Still not inclusionary: Council blasts Fenty’s inaction
Another Friday, another DC Register with no Inclusionary Zoning regulations despite numerous laws requiring their publication. Keep reading…
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Live chat: Mary Cheh, Friday at 1 pm
This Friday at 1:00 pm, Greater Greater Washington will host Mary Cheh, DC Councilmember for Ward 3, and Chair of the Council’s Committee on Government Operations and the Environment. Ms. Cheh is also a tenured law professor at GWU. 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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What’s a tax, what’s a fee, and what’s just a shell game
According to the City Paper, the DC Council has removed the “streetlight fee,” and will find $12 million elsewhere. The “fee” would have charged electric customers a flat rate of $4.25 a month for residential customers, $16.75 a month for commercial customers, and $42 a month for others. Keep reading…
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DC youth employment programs should focus on quality, not quantity
Martha Ross is Deputy Director of Greater Washington Research at Brookings. She’ll be starting to post about some important issues to our region and Brookings’ policy analysis. Welcome Martha! Keep reading…
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Let’s talk about enforcement
Councilmember Jim Graham is eager to create a DDOT bicycle-mounted enforcement squad. Depending on whom you ask, this squad might be designed to mainly enforce laws against cyclists, or to enforce laws against both cyclists and drivers. We need even-handed enforcement of dangerous behavior regardless of the type of vehicle. And we definitely need more enforcement. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not spending the money
Will Metro give money back while cutting service?; Fenty not spending meter increase money; T4A to Congress: save transit; Huge unused runway, or great rail line?; Benning on track for tracks; NYC may require “green retrofits”; 11 transit success stories; Bad BRAC bike setup still static; LaHood gets bicycling; PW-DC ferry in testing; Zipcar managing governmental car sharing. Keep reading…