Posts tagged Japan
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Breakfast links: Open up
CTO Sivak; One county’s revenue from hoarding data: negative half a mil; MTA pulls back the F curtain; H Street will go first?; No more meters for Iowan city; Really high-speed rail; Music to your feet. 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: Arlington to Canada to Japan
Metro down (this weekend); Recycling, bike racks up; Counting coming; Why “pedestrians”?; Photos okay at USDOT, assuming guards get the memo; Transit smart cards, improved; Not so bike friendly. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: The future of sitting, driving, biking
New BART seating strategy; Road pricing: the time is now; Look at all the traffic; Road closures and parking divide Eastern Market; German city more neighborly; Arlington needs a few good counters; Some Fairfax Connector buses raise fare to $7; Give the robot your bike. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: SmarTrip, the environment, Japan, and more
SmarTrip Web reload, autoload coming; Metro MasterCard: priceless?; Chicago real-time bus info spurs app competition; Environmentalist except in your backyard; Break out the white paint; Japan’s roads to nowhere; Streets are different in Japan, too; Lewis, Kojo talk big box reuse; Navarro probably wins District 4; Arts event for city’s elite excludes emerging arts. Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: someone is wrong on the Internet
More obnoxiously judgmental? Prince of Petworth discusses the curb cut-gorging townhouses on P Street between 16th and 17th, leading to a debate about curb cuts followed by “which blog commenters are more obnoxiously judgmental,” on PoP or Greater Greater Washington. Keep reading…
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Sustainable Transportation Five, please step forward
Five unnamed but heroic Democratic Senators refused to support Boxer and Inhofe’s amendment to add $50 billion in highway spending to the stimulus. According to Streetsblog, they insisted on these criteria: Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: (Rail)road to the future
No to new roads: Friends of the Earth has launched a campaign to keep roads out of the upcoming federal stimulus. “The road-building lobby is attempting to hijack [the stimulus] bill and divert billions of dollars to the construction of new, unnecessary roads, highways and bridges that would deepen our nation’s dependence on oil and increase greenhouse gas emissions,”… Keep reading…