Posts tagged Leed
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Breakfast links: Not easy being green
More soccer please; Latest delinquent landlord in Shaw: NPS; Another suburban office building is “greenest”; Even energy-saving features sometimes don’t; USPS assumes customers drive; Walking is Green(belt); Yellow over Green. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Peas and carrots
Building a hotel? Build a bike station too; Council holds land deals; Spoil the land for the greater good?; Hope Park?; Don’t close ‘em, add concessions; Old buildings are green; Parking around the globe; Just a little bit. Keep reading…
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Gaithersbungle, part 4: Why emulate Tysons’ existing road network?
In the first three parts of this series (1, 2, 3), we discussed the folly of spending $4 billion to widen I-270 instead of focusing development in denser areas and beefing up MARC to better serve the 270 corridor with existing infrastructure. Keep reading…
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Arlington Democrats to select delegate on June 9th
After serving since 2004, Delegate Al Eisenberg is retiring. Thanks to Mr. Eisenberg for representing my district these past five years in Richmond. His staff was responsive to my questions and concerns during legislative sessions, and for the most part I agreed with his votes and proposed legislation. Five Democrats are competing in a primary for his seat. … Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving right through
Klein reveals stimulus grant priorities; Drive-thru, not bike-thru; Metro route choice survey back; Construction closes both sides of 6th Street; Banning throwing away clean bags?; Green buildings versus green cities; What do we do about crime?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not spending the money
Will Metro give money back while cutting service?; Fenty not spending meter increase money; T4A to Congress: save transit; Huge unused runway, or great rail line?; Benning on track for tracks; NYC may require “green retrofits”; 11 transit success stories; Bad BRAC bike setup still static; LaHood gets bicycling; PW-DC ferry in testing; Zipcar managing governmental car sharing. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It’s not easy pretending to be green
“Green” SOLEA pushing car use; Air quality, pshaw!; Get your bike commuter benefit, as long as you never ride transit; More trains for Virginia; Can you CNU?; Union bus-ting in Fairfax?; States can do anything as long as it’s not for bicycles. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Connect the dots
Virginia reconnects their grid; MoCo is caring about sharing; 13% of SmarBike subscribers live in other states; No more passes with Metrocheks; Chicago drivers annoyed by higher rates, snafus; Connolly looking to the next Metro extension; BART considers charging for parking on weekdays; Taller and greener in Arlington; Mini links. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How we do things in America
More bars on the Metro: By 2012, customers of all four existing mobile networks will be able to use their phones in Metro tunnels. The new network will also provide Wi-Fi access. (Post) Keep reading…
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Designing for walkability in Fairfax and Loudoun
In a suburban context, developers tend to propose suburban designs for new development. Those designs separate buildings with large amounts of space, fill that space with empty lawns and plazas, and channel traffic to wide boulevards around the periphery of a site. These designs don’t lend themselves to walkable environments with lively ground level activity. Keep reading…