Posts tagged Pedestrians
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Brookland to become all open space
This article was posted as an April Fool’s joke. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Full spaces, empty spaces
That’s a few bikes; Another $2 mil for the empty garage; To raze or not to raze?; Living in a city is better for the environment (but not so much in DC); Maryland’s streets are especially dangerous; Dean hates Metro delays, platform dawdlers; We’re lookin’ at you, SEPTA; PG to United: build your own soccer stadium. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: We’re here, we’re urban
Hopefully not just like the Pentagon; Life, liberty, happiness and the ability to build sprawl?; Crosswalks aren’t temporary loading zones; Commute correlation computation; Seattle starts curbside composting; Mini links. Keep reading…
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Transit mashups & me on Kojo tomorrow
Tomorrow at noon, I’ll be on the Kojo Nnamdi show’s “Tech Tuesday” to talk about transit mashups like Google Transit and other innovative ways government agencies are improving public access to information by letting private companies and individual “garage developers” innovate in ways we couldn’t imagine in advance. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Get in line
Ask Catoe about NextBus or the budget: Metro General Manager John Catoe is doing a live chat at noon. You can submit questions ahead of time or during the chat. New Columbia Heights is encouraging riders to ask why Metro can’t ask NextBus to turn the beta back on. You could also ask him to consider market-rate parking at Metro stations to help close the budget gap, or other suggestions… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: bikes, brothels and bloggers
Bike lane blockers: In this comic strip, we see what happens when our hero runs across a car parked in the bicycle lane. No, no cars get keyed. (Tip: Steven) Keep reading…
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It takes a village: why walkable urbanism is good for adolescents
The March edition of GQ features a 12-year-old budding food critic, David Fishman of New York, NY. One of Fishman’s favorite activities is to visit local restaurants and write critiques. Due to his age, his parents limit him to restaurants within walking distance in his Upper West Side neighborhood. While such parental ground rules would amount to house arrest for children… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More pedestrians there, more cars here
Midtown Manhattan’s Broadway to go pedestrian-only: Times Square and Herald Square are some of the nation’s most crowded outdoor spaces. Diagonal Broadway jams up traffic on Sixth and Seventh Avenues, by taking away traffic signal time from the avenues. Yesterday, New York announced an innovative solution Keep reading…
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Washingtonian features Greater Greater Washington
The Washingtonian’s “Blogger Beat” interviewed me about how we can make Greater Washington greater. Here are a few the topics we covered; check out the article for the more detailed responses. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Things are going very Wells
Give me a C: Councilmember Tommy Wells (Ward 6) has endorsed the C Street, Northeast neighbors’ suggestion to narrow C west of RFK Stadium. Previously: we looked at C Street proposals. Keep reading…