Posts tagged Palisades
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A former trolley line could become a walking and biking trail from the Palisades to Georgetown
During DC’s streetcar era, the Glen Echo line ran from Georgetown to Glen Echo Park along a path through the Palisades. But for 52 years, this land has lain dormant. It could turn into a trail to get people on foot and bike between these neighborhoods. Keep reading…
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Cheh proposes hoverboard lanes and a Palisades stadium
DC may hire a dedicated person to help drivers read stop signs, build hoverboard lanes, and place the DC United stadium atop the Palisades Safeway, under budget recommendations from DC Councilmember and transportation chair Mary Cheh. As you might guess, these are a joke. April Fool’s Day was six weeks ago, but today is the day for joviality from Cheh and her staff, who put… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unwanted developments
Wage bill threatens more developments; Mixed-use Safeway causes mixed feelings; Farm-to-table, literally; Enough money for Purple & Red?; ConNeb? Comet Corner?; Can merger save Detroit?; Same story, different places; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Eyes on bikes and pedestrians
MBT cameras not helpful; MD bike and ped update; Future of Georgetown; IZ update; Goodbye Examiner; More Metro data; More neighbors against mixed-use Safeway; Nerds on the train; Metro morsels. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Who’s on top
Bonds leads, Silverman ties Mara; Bikeshare blossoms; Meet the parking anger; Preserve eastern Chinatown?; Bigger, better stations; No fed dollars for Pike streetcar; Beauregard rezoned; This camera’s a fake; LaHood talks tough on bike safety. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Groundhog Day
6 more weeks of… winter?; House transpo bill to markup; Metro finds more cracks; Not terribly deliberate speed; Main drag a drag; Food deserts not a huge issue?; Public safety and history collide; Preservation group didn’t stall Met Branch; And…. Keep reading…
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Would Fenty do a better job if he did nothing at all?
Many people speculated, incorrectly, about my motivations for writing an article suspicious of Adrian Fenty on Friday. The simple fact is this. By all rights, I should love Adrian Fenty. He’s aligned with me on most policy issues. However, I don’t love him. Why? Maybe it’s the way he seems to show contempt for the legislature, even when they try to work with… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links I: Peds, bikes, trees and parks
Don’t walk in Florida; Bike lane posted; Fenty’s training rides break various laws; Park View or just Private Golf Course View?; Pepco’s lumber subsidiary; Parking Depot. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dear Current, please get a real Web site
Sidewalks, assured; Don’t drive? You must not live here; These go to Elevenleytown; Tall TOD at PG Plaza?; Days since last injury: 1; Metro keeping its escalators; Cowening before trains; And…. 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…