Posts tagged Montgomery
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Morning bell: Community schools may get the axe, but a school farm gets a reprieve
Nipping community schools in the bud?: This year DC funded a new program that uses schools as hubs for providing social services, but there’s no funding in next year’s proposed budget to sustain or expand the effort just as it’s getting off the ground. (DCFPI) Reprieve for farm at DCPS school: A one-acre urban farm at the Walker-Jones Education Campus off North… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cycle stats
Even more bike, lately; Trash can follies; Transit center blues; The Show-Me Station?; Shape Bethesda; Running from streetcars; Slow down; Selling public space for private gain; Drones of Brookland; And…. Keep reading…
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Residents skeptical of BRT and mixed-use development grill Montgomery council candidates
In the coming years, eastern Montgomery County could see some big changes, from faster, more reliable bus service to a new research and technology hub. Last night, candidates for County Council talked about these issues with some very skeptical Four Corners residents. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Victims of the road
Cycling hit on Bike to School Day; Hit-and-run gets 6 months; Intersection of doom; Did confusion kill?; Transit first in MoCo; Right to play; Heights stay; Returning home; Diversifying the housing stock; Can’t build there. Keep reading…
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Thousands of public parking spaces in Bethesda and Silver Spring sit empty every day
Ask someone about driving in Bethesda or Silver Spring on a weekend night and he or she will give you a mouthful: “There’s nowhere to park!” But as those communities have grown, their parking demands have actually gotten lower. On an average day, thousands of spaces there sit empty. Keep reading…
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The DC region has over 250 miles of planned light rail, streetcar, & BRT
What do you get when you plot onto a single map every known light rail, streetcar, and BRT plan in the DC region? One heck of a huge transit network, is what. Keep reading…
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Purple Line meets a stone wall in Chevy Chase
While Chevy Chase spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby against the Purple Line, town officials are demanding over $1,000 to provide documents about their campaign. Meanwhile, they’ve asked Maryland to waive fees for their own information request. When the Action Committee for Transit filed requests under Maryland’s Public Information Act, the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s a public good?
Taking what’s not his; Omnipresent Internet; Parking for the people?; The rent is too high; But millennials are still coming; No gun necessary, use your car; Criminalized bike commute; Feelings getting in the way?; Red line woes; And…. Keep reading…
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Sprawl-inducing M-83 highway gets thumbs down from Montgomery County Executive
Last Thursday, Montgomery County transportation director Art Holmes told the County Council that County Executive Ike Leggett does not favor building the M-83 “Mid-County Highway Extended” highway project. This could be an important signal that the outdated project, which would take hundreds of millions of dollars from transit projects and incentivize more… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pushing business away
Perception costs Georgia Avenue; Bike lanes great for parking?; Height limit allows a camel; Oakville Triangle set for makeover; Pushing Silver Line over finish line; Don’t pass the bus; Breaking: our region is expensive; Things are different in Europe; Worldly subways; And…. Keep reading…