Posts tagged Nps
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Should Mount Vernon Square become circle-like?
Cars and streetcars could flow counterclockwise around a Mount Vernon Square enlivened with retail, seating and events in the park and along the Convention Center’s façade, under draft recommendations the DC Office of Planning unveiled last night. Mount Vernon Square resembles Dupont Circle in many ways. It carries just as much car traffic and sits at… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Parks and schools
Lighting up Sherman Circle; New parks in NE Capitol Hill?; Benefits of school integration; Too cool for school; New 11th Street bridges on track; PG County gets first “high-end” grocery; Church housing; Fairfax wants chunk of VA surplus; No more back doors. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More ups and downs
Two slots at DCA up for grabs; Virginia to raise speed limits; Height debate continued; Gray softens on lower parking rates; Bethesda escalator repair nears end; Arlington Trader Joe’s to get parking; L’Enfant Plaza-Future Banneker Memorial Station?; Is there an answer to gentrification?; And…. Keep reading…
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NPS, Secret Service close to approving 15th Street bike lane
DDOT could start extending the 15th Street bike lane as early as Friday, DCist reported yesterday. By the time construction gets down to the White House area, DDOT believes they will have final approvals from the Park Service and Secret Service for the segments around Lafayette Park and the White House. The new lanes will extend the current 15th Street bike lane south to E Street,… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: The Park Service’s party Line
More from the front Line; We’ll get to it one day, maybe; Is it just the National Paving Service?; DHS settles photography suit; Development approvals not stopping; Wal-Mart wants less parking; Latest round of the Height Limit debate. Keep reading…
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NPS hasn’t asked its concessionaire about bike sharing
The National Park Service hasn’t spoken to Guest Services, Inc., the concessionaire that runs bike rentals on the Mall, to determine if they’d object to placing Capital Bikeshare stations on Park Service land. The Capital Bikeshare service “glaringly” omits the large swaths of Washington and Arlington controlled by the National Park Service. Keep reading…
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Lincoln Park CaBi station decision imminent
DDOT will make a final decision about the placement of a Lincoln Park area CaBi station within days, Chris Holben told an occasionally animated but civil ANC meeting last night. According to Holben, the island on the northeast corner has some advantages over the previously-suggested southeast corner. The northeast island is larger, enabling the bike rack to be placed parallel… Keep reading…
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Jefferson Memorial next to get security wall
An NCPC staff report on a security perimeter at the Jefferson Memorial contains a fascinating before and after photo set of the area: Keep reading…
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Reforest underused Fort Circle fields to focus on active areas
The National Park Service owns 90% of the parkland in DC. The City Paper recently found this Google Maps mashup charting all the National Park Service properties in the District. Everyone knows about Rock Creek Park, but residents often overlook the arc of parks that form the Fort Circle Parks. The Fort Circle Parks are mostly grassy patches of land with few other… Keep reading…
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Morning links: Out of the road
Bus tragedy; Keeping bike racks off Pennsylvania; Opposing comes at a cost; Food trucks roll around for another article; Fishing for tows; Google the Shweeb; And in Oregon…; Cities in focus; Vision on the SW Waterfront. Keep reading…