Posts tagged Parks
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Al fresco dining and parks vs. gangs in Columbia Heights
Outdoor restaurant seating and renovation of a triangle park could help reduce gang activity in a portion of Columbia Heights. Neighbors near the intersection of 14th Street and Meridian Place in Columbia Heights have long been acquainted with the 3500 crew, a group whose members are often the instigators of noise, littering, drug dealing and violence in the neighborhood. Keep reading…
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Marcel Acosta answers the rest of your questions
After our chat with Marcel Acosta, I sent him the questions that we didn’t have time to post, like we did with Chris Zimmerman. Here are Mr. Acosta’s answers. Eric F: Is there a risk that Federal oversight of WMATA will simply mean a raft of unfunded mandates? We see that the Federal government loves to place jersey barriers all over town to the detriment of city livability. 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: Green and urban
Bulb-out in a box; Work for CSG; Current debates; Compartir las bicicletas; Cell phone bans best in cities?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Looking to history
Historic Walter Reed; Independence from B Street; Do you know?; Year of Sustainability; 5 mph less, 40% fewer deaths; And…; Thanks, Stephen!. Keep reading…
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Turn the Porter-Klingle interchange into a park
The Klingle Valley trail project is focusing on building a trail, but it’s also a great opportunity to reexamine the giant interchange to nowhere in the middle of Rock Creek parkland. This interchange is massively overbuilt today. It was designed to shuffle cars between Porter Street, Beach Drive, and the now-nonexistent Klingle Road to the west. From satellite photos,… Keep reading…
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Park and Planning closing commuter routes at dark
We don’t close main arterial streets at night even if a road is less safe. So why do many local governments close walking paths and bicycle trails, even ones that are used as commuting routes? Reader Bianchi wrote in with a report: My S.O. and I bought a house in Historic Hyattsville this fall. He uses the Northwest Branch bike trail to get to either West Hyattsville metro… Keep reading…
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Plans envision multimodal “crossroads” at Mt. Vernon Square
DC’s least successful bicycle and transit infrastructure is on 7th and 9th Streets, NW, where drivers constantly occupy the dedicated bus-bike lanes. That’s one of the problems the DC Office of Planning and DDOT hope to address with a new study of the Mount Vernon Square area and 7th and 9th Streets. Planners also looked at ways to improve the area’s parks,… 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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Dinner links: Delays due to broken systems
Why no breakfast links today?; Montgomery traffic signals go out; Metro communication systems go out; Pay for park parking if you don’t park in the park; Transit Score; And…; “Roads” now includes transit?. Keep reading…