Posts tagged Ncpc
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Was your neighborhood “obsolete” in 1950?
The National Capital Park and Planning Commission, forerunner to today’s NCPC, declared most of Shaw, Mount Vernon Square and Triangle, Capitol Hill, Southwest, Buena Vista and other neighborhoods “obsolete” in 1950. Yes, amazingly, they really used that term. Keep reading…
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Four wild ideas for memorials in DC
What if we re-thought how we commemorate important people and events? A federal competition is asking that question, and four finalists will now create memorials that answer it. Keep reading…
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This map shows a very different East Capitol Street
In the 1940s, there was a proposal to make East Capitol Street into a wide, monumental avenue. This map shows what it would look like, and provides some other glimpses into what DC was like at the time. Keep reading…
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This plan would make it easier to walk or bike from L’Enfant Plaza to the Southwest Waterfront
For the past year, the National Park Service has been working on a way to make it easier to pass through Banneker Park, from L’Enfant Plaza to the forthcoming Wharf development and Anacostia Riverwalk Trail. It just released its plan for making that happen. Keep reading…
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The DC Streetcar starts service on Saturday. It took a wild ride to get here.
When DC’s H Street and Benning Road streetcar opens on February 27, it’ll run on rails that were first installed almost seven years earlier. We’ve been talking about this project since 2008, with hundreds of posts. The following is a little walk down memory lane to look at everything that’s happened. Keep reading…
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Roll Call recently made a great point about the Capitol’s parking problem
In a recent post about cleaning up after Snowzilla, Roll Call, a blog newspaper that covers Congress, published a graphic showing that if you combined all the parking lots on the Capitol Grounds in need of plowing, they’d cover the National Mall. That’s a crazy amount of parking. Keep reading…
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NIH 2015: Growing without adding parking is “impossible.” NIH 2016: Okay, it’s possible.
The National Institutes of Health won’t add any new parking spaces to its campus after all. After saying “high-ranking scientists” were too important to take transit or carpool, NIH leaders have seen the error of their ways and modified the master plan to cap the parking. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Wait until spring
Bus lane delays ahead; Bridge bummer; Show me the data; Office park makeover; Rhode Island Avenue revs up; Ashburn advances; Stranded in the South; Signs signs. Keep reading…
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The feds own RFK. Here’s what they plan to do with it.
There’s been a lot of talk lately about what to do with RFK Stadium and the land around it. One detail that’s largely been left out of the conversation: the federal government owns the entire 190-acre site, and it has already developed and adopted an ambitious plan to fill the site with mixed-use development, recreation, and culture. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: We’d really like nice things
Less money; Escalator out; Why transit stinks here; Police on camera; Pennsylvania Avenue revitalized; Maximize the Mall; Tapped out; Singing for statehood; In LA the car is out; Hello old friend. Keep reading…