Posts tagged Los Mentality
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For highways, getting a ‘D’ isn’t so bad
Listen to any discussion of highway congestion and you will inevitably hear about Level of Service (LOS), which assigns a letter grade to the congestion level of road segments. Letter grades start with ‘A’ for free flow and run down to ‘F’ for “failing” (congested) roads. Simple enough. Simple enough, except that it makes absolutely… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Science. It works.
Learning about yellow; Better models in San Diego; Gas taxes lowest in a long time; Not the death spiral; Should DC better use triangles? Can it?; No sculpture, no seating; Suburban scholars and museums; Advantages of urban living. Keep reading…
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Crossing Route 7 will mean long waits in Tysons
VDOT is widening Route 7 in Tysons Corner to fit in the Silver Line. New signals will require pedestrians to use two full light cycles to cross the road. This is making pedestrian conditions worse just as Fairfax is trying to transform Tysons into a more walkable place. Keep reading…
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Loudoun blindly pushing massive, senseless road widenings
Loudoun County is pushing a plan to widen huge numbers of roads across the county, but residents are fighting back. The plan is something right out of Robert Moses’ 1950s designs: Draw bigger and wider roads everywhere, at even spacing, and design completely around the needs of cars to the exclusion of people. My grandparents used to live in South Florida (like so many… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Running to hit
Ehrlich would kill Purple, Red lines; Bam; Damn kids!; Red Line passenger expires; $40 million bus stop?; Francoise car-rier?; Stuff getting built with DC public money. Keep reading…
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Montgomery DOT rolls out another cars-first traffic test
Fresh from yesterday’s interesting Montgomery County Council discussion of the failed car speed tests, I received a leaked copy of the Montgomery County Department of Transportation’s proposed replacement. McDOT will announce the new policy this afternoon. The explanatory memo can be found here. The new Transportation Policy Area Review will replace… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bad people
Kornheiser disciple?; Not top employee; Not really “mixed use”; Traffic tests like a hydra; No I-80 tolls, no money; MD cuts repair, rejects transit “poison pill”; No cuts, more from jurisdictions, peak of the peak; Bronrott going federal. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transit in your city and on your phone
Streetcars4NoVA; NextBus on your BlackBerry; NTSB wants hearings; Transit? Not for these elected officials; Not just one way for Laurel; MetroWest still on the horizon; The Chevy Chase parking force. Keep reading…
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Leggett wants direct pedestrian paths except when they’d interfere with traffic
Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett’s isn’t giving up on proposals for an anti-urban skybridge connecting the Silver Spring library to a parking garage. This past weekend, Leggett unveiled concept sketches for the new library at Wayne Avenue and Fenton Street. It strongly evokes images of “an open book,” along with large glass windows said… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Suburban mentality lives as some suburbs die
War protestors for hard-to-find parking; Is Jack Evans too car-centric?; Washington’s exurbs crumbling; What would make you stay in Detroit?; It could be a lot worse; SmartBenefits will get “bins”; Not the Department of Highways. Keep reading…