Posts tagged Outer Beltway
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Three-Beltways boosters perpetuate myths about growth
When the “2030 Group” recently launched to push for “good sustainable growth,” some charged that it’s just a stalking horse for the freeway lobby and the roads they’ve been pushing unsuccessfully for decades. That charge stemmed largely from the involvement of cofounder John Tilghman “Til” Hazel, a longtime freeway… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Remaining snow, coming storms
Rock Creek branch storage path; Speak up on the Fairfax budget; BLT or fries at White Flint?; Outer Beltway bill rises from the dead; Designs for Four Mile Run expansion; Yummy soot; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving outside the Beltway
Devil’s bill dies; Driver kills two; Sprawlwater regulations?; A denser Columbia; Even more VRE; MARC boarding now less convenient?; Surprise, we’re building. Keep reading…
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Do “we have to do something” about traffic but not transit?
Why do many of our leaders in suburban jurisdictions see new roads as necessary and inevitable, but new transit as difficult and unlikely? I’ve been meeting with elected officials in the region about transportation and development issues. One representative from Montgomery County recently expressed a general sentiment among area leaders that “we have to do… Keep reading…
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ICC Junior: Montrose Parkway
The multibillion-dollar Intercounty Connector may get the lion’s share of attention, but it isn’t Montgomery County’s only major road construction project. And while the ICC’s cost overruns have already threatened other transportation projects in Maryland, the other new expressway is still moving forward: Montrose Parkway. Keep reading…
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Roger Lewis endorses three Beltways?
Washington Post Shaping the City columnist and UMD architecture professor emeritus Roger Lewis usually makes a valuable contribution to debates about our region. He supports less sprawling development patterns, plans to make Tysons a “real city”, and the Purple Line. That’s why I was shocked to hear him recommend not just completing the ICC, but three Beltways… Keep reading…