Posts tagged Pedestrians
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Fort Totten streets get a little closer to complete
Last night, Toole Design Group presented alternatives for the redesign of 1st Place and Galloway Street NE near the Fort Totten Metro station. The alternatives significantly improve walking and bicycling throughout an area that is today suburban and difficult to traverse. In particular, Riggs Road at 1st Place will include pedestrian refuges, a section of the Metropolitan… Keep reading…
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Mendelson: “We’re being too easy on drivers” who kill
At Friday’s oversight hearing on the Metropolitan Police Department, Councilmember Phil Mendelson asked some tough questions about prosecution against drivers who kill pedestrians or cyclists. The exchange starts at 4:53:45 on this video recording. Mendelson asked about a particular incident where a driver killed a pedestrian on Wisconsin Avenue while allegedly… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: People out and about
Tourist season brings crowds; Myers blames the victim; One Texas town trying to stamp out cycling; Arguing numbers on the Gaithersbungle; Wisconsin ripe for a streetcar?; Anti angles; Preservation preserves. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Safer and more affordable
Hit, kill, run; Cycle tracks in College Park?; Affordable housing activity; Off the job for 9 years, come back, derail a train; MV Square market unpermitted, but should be permissible?; After the flood; How are Kenyan riots like the snowpocalypse?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Victories for people
People allowed on all sides; Hit the road, Jack; Hey stores, check out the people walking by; Development dispatches; Plowing peeves; PRT in Morgantown; Sharing in solar. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Monarchy yields to democracy
USDOT dethrones king car; Metro morsels; Many ideas, none great; Don’t try to walk in PW; Not the employee lot; MV Square farmers market raided; Make some art for Columbia Heights. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Take a seat
Couches the next subway ads?; Thomas, the parking scofflaw; Bike lanes: Inviting backlash? Triathlete-related?; Bag fee cuts bags in half; I saw the sign; Three-mile crosswalk; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hate-based policy arguments
Kornheiser for manslaughter; Big government sprawl; Intermediate offense for deadly driving; No TOD for the House; Walker is a rider; Annandale could get a “sense of place”; VDOT: Offramp or bust; No to vampire bill. Keep reading…
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Plans envision a “green street” for C Street, NE
Capitol Hill residents recently reviewed traffic-calming options for C Street, NE including separated bike paths (“cycle tracks”), reducing lanes, bulb-outs, “chicanes” where the road curves from side to side, reconfigured intersections, medians, stormwater bioretention araes, and more. C Street, NE through northeastern Capitol Hill serves… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: So many events and links, so little time
Next American Party; Channel 4 blames the pedestrians; Why does government hate cities?; Broad Run garage a white elephant?; Perkins’ parking picks; Sprawler to run planning?; Rent control for Montgomery?. Keep reading…