Posts tagged Performance Parking
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Breakfast links: Countdown to opening
Blue Line frequency cuts cause frustration; The story so far; Travel delays prevalent around the region; Dealing with the racial wealth gap; Don’t ban apps, price parking correctly; Bike sharing for work and pleasure; Bikeshare deal in the works; Congestion grows less quickly with rail; And…. Keep reading…
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When parking prices reflect demand, everybody wins
When San Francisco let parking prices fluctuate with demand, drivers found it easier and faster to find parking. The city maximized its valuable curb parking spaces and modestly sped up buses. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Architects imagine
What MLK could look like; Skyscrapers along The Mall?; Food trucks coming to Alexandria; Older buildings are better economically; Where the (political) party is; If zoning were nationalized; Parking pilot succeeds; And…. Keep reading…
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Here are four ways to make parking meters on the National Mall a success
The National Park Service is proposing to add meters to areas of the National Mall and memorial parks where parking is currently free. With a thoughtful plan, meters should make it easier to find parking on the Mall and improve access to its important sites. A few key steps can help the meter program be successful: setting meter rates and times based on demand, offering convenient… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Delays
City misses deadline for stadium deal; Microunits delayed by parking; Easier development for White Oak; Some riders lose on $115 a month; Plastic bag use drops; Chevy Chase to lawyer up?; Alexandria will get a hotel; One property tax bill moves ahead; Performance parking on BART. Keep reading…
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Topic of the week: Greater Greater 2024
Wednesday marks the start of 2014, but what about further into the future? We asked our contributors what they hope to be writing and reading about on Greater Greater Washington in 10 years. Dan Reed: I’d like to write about how the region’s ethnic enclaves, from Langley Park to Annandale, have become the new hot spots, drawing investment from around the globe as the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Solidarity
Taxi drivers (kinda) unionize; All hands on deck for Height Act hearings; Montgomery installs school bus cameras; Math geeks make bikeshare better; UMD golf course will stay; Amtrak unveils new cars; SCOTUS will hear rail-trail case; And…. Keep reading…
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How to fix parking: Price it right, and don’t play favorites
Parking has been called third rail of local politics, and for good reason. At a panel Wednesday on “Getting Parking Right,” Nelson\Nygaard transportation planner Jeff Tumlin put it this way: “People hate the existing system, but they’ll also hate any changes you make to the rules. No matter what you do, people are going to be very upset with you.”… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Make it better
Transform Franklin; Baltimore Penn gets its own plan; Metro sequestered; Senate to the rescue; Too many apartments?; Food trucks chafe at rules; Need more than nightlife; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: War on the war on cars
Parking minimums are obsolete; Pay up, Maryland drivers; Townsend watch; Fairfax sneers at PG; Waterfront defended; Murals popular, except on the Hill; MoCo still very dangerous to walk; Air travel doesn’t break even, either; Candidates pull in money. Keep reading…