Posts tagged History
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See Metro Center when it was still under construction
In the mid 1970s, Metro’s first stations were under construction and on track for their 1976 opening day. This historic photo shows Metro Center station while it was under construction, circa 1975. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Let’s talk
GM making the rounds; Uber rides for all; Accessible Metro; Don’t stop the bus; The right stuff; See something, report something; Spend wisely; Verdict not in, yet; Make way; Historical street view. Keep reading…
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64 years ago, the world’s first driverless parking garage opened in DC
On December 5, 1951, the world’s first “park-o-mat” driverless parking garage opened on K Street NW, between 14th and 15th Streets. The building doesn’t exist anymore, but this newsreel is a neat look into one of history’s previous attempts at driverless transportation. Keep reading…
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How U Street almost became strip malls and office parks
Planners in the 1950s wanted to replace large swaths of central Washington with freeways. Canceling those plans saved the city not just from the freeways themselves, but also from an equally stunning plan to demolish thousands more blocks alongside said freeways and “renew” them with a suburban landscape of strip malls, office campuses, and apartment towers. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Railcars delayed, buses on schedule
I like big buses; 7000s delayed; Orange and Silver return; Metro might make money; Alexandria archeology; Route 7 solutions; Charm City polishes its charm; And…. Keep reading…
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Here’s a map of the highways that almost ran through DC
In the late ‘60s, there were plans to build the Three Sisters Bridge and elevated highway system in DC. Luckily, they fell through. A recent Washingtonian piece detailing the story made us want to re-publish GGWash editor Dan Malouff‘s post on just how may highway-sized bullets we’ve dodged: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: I think I can
Rush-hour relief; Almost, streetcar; Delayed for a reason; Change for the board; Struck DC; Near Union Station; CaBi unionized; Cemetery springs to life; Violence hits home; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stayhere-Arentmoving
Metro mayhem; To Fairfax for free; Pay up for public housing; Politicians and poets; Potomac postponed; FBI crystal ball; Vision Zero, codified; Suburban salad bowls. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bishop of Brookland
He’s here!; No Popemageddon; More Metro madness; Fill the opening; Proceed with housing; Familiar phenomenon; MJ in MD; Do your job, ANCs; Hit and run. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Squeezed out
Market changes; Slow commute; No rent control; Die, die, die; Safer for all; Write-in for mayor; The voice; Sue the suburbs; And…. Keep reading…