Posts tagged Hot Lanes
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Breakfast links: Getting around the Old Dominion
Next stop Lynchburg: A Virginia board approved funding for two new daily trains, one from Lynchburg to DC via Charlottesville and Culpeper, and the other from Richmond to DC. The service could begin as early as October. (News Advance via Stephen) Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Sprawl advocacy pro and con edition
Safety for their schools, not others: The Town of Chevy Chase is slowing traffic around one of its schools while, as ACT points out, advocating for a Purple Line bus alignment that would send rapid buses right past another school outside their limits. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Special interests edition
Roger Lewis on the Park and Shop: In his latest appearance on Kojo, architect Roger Lewis talks about the role of politics in historic preservation, including the loss of historic neighborhoods in Southwest in the 1960s, the Park and Shop at the Cleveland Park Metro, the MLK Library, and the closing of G Street to build the Verizon Center. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: it’s breakfast time here edition
I’m in California this week, so I won’t be posting as frequently (and, due to the time change, not so early in the morning). Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Three steps forward, two steps back edition
Arlington moving toward performance parking: Arlington’s recently-approved Master Transportation Plan includes a policy of making meter prices “vary by hour and location to better match parking availability and demand.” county staff said a detailed proposal is in the works and may be approved by the County Board in December. (Infosnack HQ)… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: upset neighbors edition
Yes, Virginia, widening means more asphalt and fewer trees: In addition to the constantly rising public subsidy, Northern Virginia communities are discovering that the Beltway HOT lane construction will consume more land and clear more trees than residents had anticipated. Maybe some of the Fairfax Supervisors should have paid more attention to the project before it was approved? Keep reading…