Posts tagged Outer Beltway
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Breakfast links: Transportation projects for the new year
VA’s Outer Beltway coming; What counties want; More info on Jack’s; Arlington peaking?; Year’s most annoying in development; Regulations make alley living pricey; DC faces higher fiscal cliff; And…. Keep reading…
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Sierra Club names best and worst transportation projects
Capital Bikeshare, the Purple Line, and Silver Line are among the best transportation projects in America, according to the Sierra Club’s annual list of the 50 best and worst. Virginia also scored 3 “worst” slots with sprawl-inducing, environmentally destructive highway projects around the state. Capital Bikeshare: Our system, now in DC, Arlington,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the Potomac
Potomac study a foregone conclusion?; Bag fee still working; Less green lines; More on Ride-On-riding 5th grader; Drive less; Less for transit, more on trains; And…. Keep reading…
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Now sprawl will save the planet, say Outer Beltway boosters
Outer Beltway lobbyists will say and do anything to unlock new land for sprawl in Northern Virginia’s rural areas. The latest bizarre claim comes from the Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance, whose email alert this week bore the title, “Save the Planet. Expand the Highway Network.” Sometimes, you just can’t make this stuff up. NVTA claims… Keep reading…
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Highway would fuel sprawl, pave over history at Manassas
In July 1861, the Union and Confederacy met at Manassas (Bull Run) in the first great clash of armies in the Civil War. On August 28-30, 1862, the armies clashed in the Second Battle of Manassas. Exactly 150 years later, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is proposing a highway through the historic landscape of Manassas, with particularly harmful impact on the landscape… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Battle plans
Transportation battle at Manassas; MoCo gets bus bill; More Silver oversight; That smell; Teens imagine recreation bridge; Big BRT or big lanes?; Green roofs get more green; And…. Keep reading…
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3 years after crash, Metro repair and funding is top priority
Today is the 3rd anniversary of Metro’s Red Line crash. Three years later, residents still consider Metro maintenance and reliability the top regional priority. Transparency and management effectiveness also came up as a very important issue. In a recent focus group, respondents ranked the problem of deferred Metrorail maintenance as the top transportation challenge… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Good and bad choices
Silver has support; Not an Outer Beltway?; We want buses; Blaze your own trail; Fairfax has draft of future bike map; At least we’re not Muni; Premade bulbs; And…. Keep reading…
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McDonnell’s roadblocks threaten Silver Line’s phase 2
Virginia Governor McDonnell says he fully supports the timely completion of Phase 2 of the Silver Line. Yet his administration’s political roadblocks are the biggest threat to the project. In a Washington Post op-ed this weekend, McDonnell wrote, “Unfortunately, the project has been marked by many controversies, ranging from escalated costs, the prospect… Keep reading…
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WAMU missteps with one-sided Outer Beltway story
WAMU’s Metro Connection aired a sadly one-sided story on Friday about long-debated, oft-rejected proposals to build an Outer Beltway across the Potomac, far from the region’s core. Positively, Metro Connection agreed that the piece wasn’t up to their standards, and the reporter has already added some of the missing side of the story. The original piece… Keep reading…