Posts tagged Pedestrians
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Weekend reading: Up and down the Green Line edition
First stop Columbia Heights: Today is Columbia Heights Day, featuring local music, food, family activities, a bike ride and more. Keep reading…
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How to improve pedestrian safety on Connecticut Avenue?
ANC Commissioner Mital Gandhi represents the area where Charles Schwartz was killed by an automobile on Wednesday. Gandhi just sent this to a variety of area neighborhood email lists: Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Three jeers and a cheer edition
Urban planners in blue: Ike Leggett wants to give the police sole decisionmaking power about what pedestrian paths should go around the Fillmore. Meanwhile, planners and elected offiicals will have almost no say. (Just Up the Pike) Keep reading…
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Missed opportunities on 17th Street
Last week, DDOT presented mostly-final plans for the 17th Street streetscape redesign in Dupont Circle, from Massachusetts to New Hampshire Avenues. This busy commercial street could use a facelift. And the project will make some valuable improvements and repair run-down elements to make a positive difference for the street. Unfortunately, though, the plan is more notable for… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Don’t sweat the small stuff edition
Girard Park plans revealed: New Columbia Heights has drawings of a planned renovation of the park at 14th and Girard. It will have an “inviting” plaza with tables, a fountain, and restrooms by day, and a fence to keep undesirable activity out at night. Keep reading…
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Pedestrian killed on Connecticut Avenue
I was at the Capitol Hill Town Square meeting last night and couldn’t post, but in case you didn’t see it elsewhere, a pedestrian was killed near Connecticut and Nebraska. Keep reading…
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Making an un-urban Hilton slightly more urban
Constructed, as it was, during an era of pedestrian-unfriendly designs and intended to flank a planned freeway, the Washington Hilton at Connecticut Avenue and Columbia Road is one of DC’s most suburban buildings. The HPO staff report writes, Keep reading…
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MoCo road code, AAA oppose tree-lined medians
Montgomery County is finalizing a new “road code” to define basic standards for roads of different types across the county. It’s a good idea to update the standards, but in the hands of MoCo’s traffic engineers and some county leaders, it’s become a blindly pro-traffic sledgehammer that will force pedestrian-unfriendly design throughout the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Mo’ train money, mo’ problems edition
Federal bread crumbs for a third VRE track: Virginia will spend $13 million to add a third track for VRE trains south of Fredericksburg to reduce delays from freight trains. In a big change for the feds, they are contributing; previously rail projects got no federal money. But they’re only kicking in $2 million of the $13 million total, as part of a mere $30 million for rail across… Keep reading…
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Hybrid taxis to Hilton towers: this week in hearings
I’m back! France was very relaxing, and I also learned a lot about how they practice urbanism and suburbanism. But first, what’s on tap this week: Keep reading…