Posts tagged Montgomery
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Your transit map could look like this if Maryland builds the Red and Purple Lines
Within ten years, you could be able to take trains from West Baltimore to Tysons Corner in Virginia, or go from Bethesda to Fells Point along the Baltimore waterfront without detouring through downtown DC. If, that is, Maryland still builds the planned Purple and Baltimore Red light rail lines. Keep reading…
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Removing the superintendent won’t fix the broken culture at Montgomery’s public schools
Montgomery County school superintendent Josh Starr resigned this week. Many community members are wondering what went wrong. While Starr had a lot of supporters, his role in a MCPS culture that didn’t take criticism well may have been his undoing. A week ago, Bethesda Magazine reported that four of the eight school board members didn’t support renewing Starr’s… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Smoke blocks the truth
Blame the fire department; Regional service; Can downtown Bethesda grow?; Franklin School plan stalled; Boom or bust?; How to update our infrastructure; Growth in the suburbs; The longest walk commute; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: You’re fired
Falling Starr; Coming out of retirement; A representative scofflaw; Gentrification in Ward 8; Wells’s environmental vision; An urban state?; Rail smash; More housing for NYC; Google that ride; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting around Montgomery
Share the lines; No MoCo authority; ACT against Chevy Chase; Wrong pop-up plan; CaBi upgrade disrupts; How to house the homeless; Anchors weigh down dead malls; Competing with Uber; Tax man comes for Airbnb; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Inequality hits home
Inequality grows in DC; Stay or go; Weekend woes; MoCo CaBi; Powerful women; Not free to be free range; Firefighters win lawsuit; London commits to bikes; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Out of batteries
Less money from cameras; Watch out for drivers; Black gold in Virginia?; Broke in Bethesda; Homeless hotels; A county underwater; Boost biking; Bowser meets Boehner; Dig into Metro ridership; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Just an inch
Nor’easter; Emergency training; Pop-up primer; Authority for Montgomery?; Minimize parking; Metro affluence; Dependent downsides; City limits or region?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bike lanes coming
Next bike lanes; More Metro fallout; No endangered species; A vision, realized; Candidate campaigns on Metro; The wandering museum; We’re driving less; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: State of needed repairs
How to pay for transportation?; Inexplicable Metro woes; Metro cuts in the works?; Keep Red Line on track; No more packing peanuts; Just what we needed; Rail to LaGuardia?; And…. Keep reading…