Posts tagged Matt Brown
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Breakfast links: New year, new leadership
Meet the new boss; New transit in 2015; New plan for Arlington; Gray saves affordable housing; CaBi extends Metro; Sweden leads in road safety; Beijing goes big; And…. Keep reading…
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DDOT director Brown stands up to opposition to mini-circles
Permanent traffic circles will go in at two intersections in American University Park despite a last-ditch effort by some residents to block them. Transportation chief Matt Brown personally got involved to keep the project going. Keep reading…
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No, DC is not abandoning plans for most streetcar lines
If you read the headlines in the Post and WAMU today, you might come away thinking that the DC government has decided not to try to build a streetcar line on Georgia Avenue or from Anacostia to Buzzard Point. But that would be wrong. What’s going on? What happened yesterday is the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced three finalists for its contract… Keep reading…
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When temporary becomes permanent: Why reopening the SE Freeway is risky
Studies are underway to replace the closed piece of the Southeast Freeway, between the 11th Street Bridge and Barney Circle, with some combination of roads, parks, and buildings. But meanwhile, DC transportation officials plan to reopen the freeway. That’s a terrible idea. Keep reading…
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Will DC’s streetcar weary council embrace the ambitious moveDC plan?
In this second installment of Streetsblog’s interview with DDOT officials about moveDC, the conversation steered to the practicality of congestion pricing, implementation of the plan, and the elephant in the room: Whether a DC Council that just dramatically cut streetcar funding has the appetite to fund progressive transportation. Keep reading…
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“Every street’s going to prioritize pedestrians,” says moveDC’s lovely fine print
Livable streets advocates all over the country are buzzing about DC’s far-sighted new transportation plan, called moveDC. Yesterday, Streetsblog sat down to interview some of the people responsible for writing and implementing the plan. Keep reading…