Posts tagged Pedestrians
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Arlington wants your help counting bikes and pedestrians
Arlington County transportation programs BikeArlington and WalkArlington are looking for volunteers to help collect bicycle and pedestrian counts in Arlington County on May 7th and 9th. This regular data collection is part of a national project to document walking and cycling as a mode of transportation. Collecting better data on usage and demand is essential to… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: SmarTrip, the environment, Japan, and more
SmarTrip Web reload, autoload coming; Metro MasterCard: priceless?; Chicago real-time bus info spurs app competition; Environmentalist except in your backyard; Break out the white paint; Japan’s roads to nowhere; Streets are different in Japan, too; Lewis, Kojo talk big box reuse; Navarro probably wins District 4; Arts event for city’s elite excludes emerging arts. Keep reading…
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The Wheaton library should be in downtown Wheaton
The draft for the new Wheaton Sector Plan currently includes provisions to build a new library in downtown Wheaton. The new library would replace the current Wheaton library which, oddly, is not in downtown Wheaton. Rather, it is north of downtown Wheaton, on the corner of Arcola Avenue and Georgia Avenue. Though the current library is a fifteen minute walk… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Art, plants and plans in the city
Art for 18th and Columbia; Street art; Mini robots are art, too; Backyard garden matchmaking; Bike lanes or bike-scooter-PUMA lanes?; Homeless newspapers growing; Free reusable bags already out; Giant subway-sized tunnel in Georgetown, but not for trains; Obama hyping sprawl to cut ribbons; Vehicle ownership down in DC; Walking up more than biking; Time to amend the Comp Plan. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Flexibility and inflexibility in ideas and leaders
Bendy trains?; More loading zones?; One County Executive cuts bicycling; Another beefs up pedestrian safety; Stop the free tickets for elected officials; New nominees for HPRB, Zoning Commission; And lots more news; Riders object to service cuts. Keep reading…
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Morning links: A sometimes merry land
Support the Pike; From Secretary to Deputy Secretary; Wider, wider, wider; Planner argues stadium opponents missing the point; Crash means holes in the ground; Back in brick; Don’t drink and bike in Poland; Police fee? Streetlight fee? Why not a congestion fee?; The simple answer: Eliminate public transportation. Keep reading…
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Missing sidewalks stir debate
Streets in DC that lack sidewalks often coincide with high concentrations of seniors, who need sidewalks all the more. At a recent hearing on DDOT’s budget, Marlene Berlin, head of the DC Senior Transportation Initiative for IONA Senior Services, presented maps showing the sections of DC with the most senior citizens, many of which are also the most lacking in sidewalks. Keep reading…
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Residents suggest more walkable intersection designs at 7th and Maryland
Greater Capitol Hill’s residents proudly lead the city in promoting a vision of our streets as welcoming and safe places for pedestrians, bicycles, transit, and cars alike. Not only did they elect DC’s most pro-walkability, pro-complete streets Councilmember, but multiple groups of residents have created designs and blogs for improving their particular corners of the neighborhood. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Click, beep, dig
Car sharing: the next generation; Cleveland replaces quiet with false safety; Potomac Yard station on the “wrong side of the tracks”?; European annoyed by Metro broken ticket machines, escalators; Amtrak underspending on marketing. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: New news on old issues
The bag man vs. the bag bill; Eisenhower memorial or Gehry memorial?; Anacostia trolley delayed until 2012?; Sidewalk safety and suburban styling in Silver Spring; HPRB rejects sidewalk cafe, house move; How smart is it?; Ward 7 development latest to ask for parking exception. Keep reading…