Posts tagged Ike Leggett
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Breakfast links: Newly vital
Wheaton plan on the move; Dancing in the streets too hard; No bill puts safety at risk; Pedicab arrest gets ugly; Fairfax picks Silver names; Christie raided ARC; Where has walking gone?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Help wanted
Help wanted at Metro; Help wanted on ethics board; A blanket of traffic cameras; Henderson is chancellor, not Kwame Brown; No Bethesda vs. Wheaton; Cars over veggies; Affordable housing needed; Garvey wins; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Test the status quo
More school, more tests; Ban the bike ban?; Cap on money orders moves; Parking and bus get more expensive; Reporter finds money for DC; Earthquake damaged buildings reopen; And…. Keep reading…
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Montgomery Council boosts Purple Line, Bethesda entrance
Last night, the Montgomery County Council affirmed its support for the Purple Line, Capital Crescent Trail, and building the Bethesda Metro’s new entrance as soon as possible, rather than waiting 6 more years. But the decision didn’t come without a fight from County Executive Ike Leggett. Leggett’s budget stripped funding for the Metro entrance until… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New directions
Pay-to-play fueled Cheh’s push; VRE down, MARC up; Nowhere to compost; MoCo wants land deal oversight; Transportation bill going nowhere fast; Pocket parks fail; City folk pay less in transportation; Katz out as planner; And…. Keep reading…
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It’s not Wheaton vs. Bethesda, but smart growth vs. bad
Montgomery officials say there isn’t enough money in the capital budget to pay for both a new Bethesda Metro entrance and redeveloping Wheaton. But there is plenty of money, if only the county deferred some of the new and wasteful highways that will only worsen sprawl and shift the county’s growth away from the places that can best accommodate it. Wheaton residents… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Who’s for transit?
Obama stiffs WMATA; Republicans for transit; Bethesda second entrance lives; From vacant lot to trendy market; Will Trump Post Office fail?; Property rights on the ballot; Arts fade downtown; How WMATA uses contractors; And…. Keep reading…
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Montgomery and DC inaction threatens the Met Branch Trail
The Metropolitan Branch Trail has been gradually becoming a reality, but now its future is threatened at both ends: in the north from the Montgomery County Executive’s short-sighted budget decisions, in the south by the District’s laissez-faire protection of trail users. Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett wants to eliminate funding to complete the trail… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pointing fingers
Official scapegoats Smart Growth; Leggett reprimands council; Election results still not all in; DNC contradicts DC Democrats; Charters gain increasing share; All options on the table for the FBI’s HQ; Are the police choking or pushing?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Visible progress
Montgomery zoning rewrite is good; 15th Street cycle track now for cyclists again; See Metro rebuild tracks; What to do with RFK?; Too many hotels?; Metro dealing with full parking lots; 2 bike deaths, 1 set of charges; And…. Keep reading…