Posts tagged Nps
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Weekend reading: Bikes, trikes and automobiles
Bikes becoming fashionable in NYC; Arlington pushes trikes; Montgomery pushes cars; No eating unless you’re a cop; Lewis calls out the antis; What’s wrong with Franklin Square?; Rail should replace short flights; Short buildings equal job sprawl; Korea has “women-only” parking spaces; Bags for the City. Keep reading…
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Delegate Frick sees issue on GGW, writes letter to NPS
Maryland Delegate Bill Frick (D-Montgomery) read last week’s Breakfast Links, which included an item from Mount Pleasant ANC Commissioner Jack McKay. Currently, the Park Service opens the road at 7 pm. During Daylight Saving Time, it’s still light out. That means cars start zooming through the park while pedestrians and cyclists are still in the midst of enjoying… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: parks, parkways, and parking
White House stadium? Did you know that in 1910, the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts “approved plans to build a football stadium either on the White House Ellipse or at some other spot in East Potomac Park”? That’s part of Marc Fisher’s fascinating history of the long debate over stadiums in DC. Keep reading…
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Washingtonian features Greater Greater Washington
The Washingtonian’s “Blogger Beat” interviewed me about how we can make Greater Washington greater. Here are a few the topics we covered; check out the article for the more detailed responses. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: take the train, save a life
New commute stats: A recent MWCOG survey discovered that one-third of residents of DC, Arlington and Alexandria take transit to work, and ten percent walk. Region-wide, five percent take transit and seven percent walk. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: cheap, plentiful parking spaces are like clean coal
I got a new way to park: WebUrbanist finds “15 Creative, Innovative & Hilarious Parking Solutions”, from the giant VW factory cavern to falling into quicksand. Via Planetizen. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Make a difference
Live in Montgomery County? Park and Planning is surveying residents on “how we manage growth, … [and] enhance quality of place in our communities.” Weigh in for more walkable, mixed-use places over auto-dependent sprawl. Also, there’s just one more week to submit public comments to MTA Maryland in support of the light rail Purple Line. Keep reading…
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Who is Peter May, and why is the National Park Service anti-urban?
It would seem logical that a representative of the National Park Service would support sustainable, eco-friendly development. Of course, the National Park Service frequently confounds logic when it comes to traffic, parking and development, such as when they prevented WMATA from building Farragut North and Farragut West closer together as a transfer station, their opposition… Keep reading…
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Don’t call it a park
NCPC, NPS, and the DC government have a new site for a new parks partnership, CapitalSpace. The alliance aims to improve DC’s smaller parks, link larger parks with greenways, and balance the various demands on the major parks. Keep reading…
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NPS: Tolls not “prudent”
It’s almost as if they are trying to prove that my April Fool’s satire isn’t far off. Shortly after the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) released a study suggesting tolls on the region’s major highways, the National Park Service called tolls “not prudent”. Keep reading…