Posts tagged Hot Lanes
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Do “we have to do something” about traffic but not transit?
Why do many of our leaders in suburban jurisdictions see new roads as necessary and inevitable, but new transit as difficult and unlikely? I’ve been meeting with elected officials in the region about transportation and development issues. One representative from Montgomery County recently expressed a general sentiment among area leaders that “we have to do… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Green and/or parking
College Park should be green; Solar Decathlon; Parking pushback; Green(ish) parking; No grid for Benning; “Racial” arguments make HOT suit hotter; Circulator to Rosslyn?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links on the run: It’s a treat
“Treat the next person”; HOT lane opposition growing; Stimulus projects creating congestion; Reconnecting zoning. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Virginia transportation sticking points
Escape from Van Dorn; Widener Deeds vs. more widener McDonnell; Bad polling news for Fenty; Non-suck column; A more pleasant library; No parking at MLK; Parking better in Arlington; Ask Congress for $4 billion. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Making tracks and trails
Met Branch asphalt; Streetcar tracks in Anacostia; Are you going car-free?; When will Cato criticize garages?; HOT tempers in Virginia; Ride Metro to the Redskins, no thanks to the FTA; Americans loving cars a little less. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: HOT lanes, cold retail market
Suicide by Metro; I-66 hot again in the press, on the campaign trail; Tempers hot on 95 and 395; Correct(ing) the park(ing) story; No traffic lights in London; Empty storefronts are increasing. Why?; 1940s Sears didn’t destroy Tenleytown; The perfect city according to Byrne; The “rural until we want sprawl there” tier. Keep reading…
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Moran: I know we can’t lay more asphalt, but DC should
Here is the audio of Congressman Jim Moran’s appearance on WTOP on Friday, where he complained about DC not being willing to widen the 14th Street bridge and 14th Street itself. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Highway robbery
MPD would rather white people didn’t file police reports in Trinidad?; Stop the Sprawlway; Moran: Widen 14th Street; Developers not interested in Purple Line, except those that are; DC can complete Georgia Avenue; Not even safe on the sidewalk in Glen Burnie; Be glad you don’t live in the OC; Chicago parking deal illegal or just bad?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Economic solutions, bureaucratic problems
Sluggers not hot on HOT; Yes, pricing existing lanes would be better; Get paid to move closer to work?; Washington Gas renegs on Capital City Diner; New private roads still create “silos”; Too much work to listen?; Now vs. then’s view of now. Keep reading…
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I’m so proud of you!
I wouldn’t have believed it once upon a time, but the comment sections of DC area blogs have started to talk about transportation and urban planning issues in a much more thoughtful and knowledgeable way. Thanks to the skills you’ve honed and knowledge you’ve picked up here and on the many other excellent urbanism-related blogs in the area, when something pops… Keep reading…