Posts tagged Lincoln Memorial
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Breakfast links: Bouncing baby boy
Special delivery at L’Enfant; Memorials scrubbed; Colleges vie for St. Elizabeths spot; Fairfax looks at all-studio proposal; More mandatory breathalyzers in VA; Pepco appeals rate decision; Another pedestrian bridge gone; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Regulatory choices
Large retailers may have to pay more; Food truck rules going down; NPS stepping back on Penn; Utility problems; Compare bikeshare geographically; Companies quiet on transit nationally; And …. Keep reading…
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Relive a pretty afternoon on the ballpark ferry
Washington’s growing fleet of water taxis are useful as transportation, but they’re also a fun and unique way to see the city. I used an American River Taxi to travel to a Nationals game a few weeks ago, and photographed the trip for posterity. ART ferries sailing to the ballpark pick up passengers at Washington Harbor, in Georgetown. Boats pull directly up to the boardwalk,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Atone
The mind is the root of bike hate; Memorial gets too much life; Goodbye, Greyhound terminal; PG wants more TOD; Inaugurate freedom for DC; Trees aren’t whole story; Railgate to the Metrodome; Paris wants genuine residents; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting there
Metro raises SmarTrip minimum; Passenger trains come back to Norfolk; Gray and employment; Flooding problems; Reflecting Pool reopens; Bypasses go out of favor; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cutting corruption?
Gray proposes election reform; ANC supports Adams Morgan hotel; Republican platform on DC; Are denser areas more resilient during bad weather?; Housing market in outer suburbs catches on; DC drivers the worst?; Maryland drivers the worst?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to revitalize
Police adapt to changing neighborhoods; Can Crystal City change direction?; Oregon to try out VMT tax; Keep Union Station historic?; Atlanta’s BeltLine still progressing; Montgomery works on farms; And…. Keep reading…
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Do you know the other Watergate?
Before “Watergate” became synonymous with a group of buildings and a scandal, it was the name applied to something else. And it’s something that most of us are very familiar with, especially if you’re an avid runner who heads down to the Lincoln Memorial, on the Potomac River side. There are a series of steps between the Lincoln Memorial and the Potomac River, which give the odd impression… Keep reading…
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Cannon almost stopped the Lincoln Memorial
A fascinating story in the Washington Post Magazine explains how Illinois Congressman and Speaker of the House Joe Cannon (who has a House office building named in his honor) fought the establishment of the Lincoln Memorial on what was then a swamp along the banks of the Potomac, preferring a smaller memorial near Union Station; years later, he admitted he was glad he had lost that fight. Keep reading…