Posts tagged Near Southeast
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USDOT’s new bike sharing program is a bike
There’s now a new bike sharing program at the US Department of Transportation. Is this another incompatible system like the failed House of Representatives program, American University’s, and NPS’s? No — it’s just a guy letting anyone other folks at USDOT use his bike. In an attempt to gauge the possible success of a bike sharing program at DOT, he’s… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Still safer than driving, but how safe?
Another Metro fatality; Near-crash kept secret; Sidewalks: Prudent or fascist?; Feet in the Street really in the Park; Most prefer MARC to Hagerstown; Highways displace streetcars, again; Take me out on the water to the ballgame. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Vox populi
Make no little plans for Summer Streets; Buses are confusing, what else is new?; Is NextBus data proprietary?; In search of an official modernist champion, you mean; Rails and trails; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bike lanes and pushy drivers
Road dieting is healthy; Hoboken Hobikelane; Police to ticket aggressive drivers; Offices in the west; Cruzing on the Hill; Around the region; Across the nation. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Today in buildings
If you don’t like your historic building, let it fall down?; You say “of its time,” I say “faux modernism”; Making the FBI building work; Good plan, bad design for Walgreens?; Hotel isn’t more important than everything else; Purple Line beats opponents, highways at TPB; And…. Keep reading…
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Tearing down a Baltimore highway provides lessons for DC
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon set aside money to study tearing down the southern end of the Jones Falls Expressway. She sees tearing down the freeway as offering potential to stimulate development and property values to the east and northeast of downtown Baltimore. Currently, the elevated highway separates downtown from the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus and other… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Park or don’t drive
Charlottesville considers meters; NCPC unhappy with no new parking at Navy Yard?; Talking parking in Alexandria; Sweeper cam tickets to fund housing; BRAC all fraked; NYC imagines 49,000 shared bicycles; DCCA elects slate, President too close to call. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not spending the money
Will Metro give money back while cutting service?; Fenty not spending meter increase money; T4A to Congress: save transit; Huge unused runway, or great rail line?; Benning on track for tracks; NYC may require “green retrofits”; 11 transit success stories; Bad BRAC bike setup still static; LaHood gets bicycling; PW-DC ferry in testing; Zipcar managing governmental car sharing. Keep reading…
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Morning links: A sometimes merry land
Support the Pike; From Secretary to Deputy Secretary; Wider, wider, wider; Planner argues stadium opponents missing the point; Crash means holes in the ground; Back in brick; Don’t drink and bike in Poland; Police fee? Streetlight fee? Why not a congestion fee?; The simple answer: Eliminate public transportation. Keep reading…
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Putting the performance back into the ballpark performance parking pilot
Yesterday I discussed empty streets in the ballpark performance parking district. The spaces are going empty even in an area where the meter rates are supposed to be adjusted to keep the streets almost full. Keep reading…