Posts tagged Potomac River
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Kennedy Center addition tries to connect with the audience
The Kennedy Center yesterday unveiled an expansion plan to build 3 new pavilions, including one in the Potomac River, along with pedestrian bridges across Rock Creek Parkway and to the east. The project would partly alleviate some of the Kennedy Center’s 1960s urban design errors. It connects the 1.5 million-square-foot arts center to the river, as its designers originally… Keep reading…
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Christmas Eve links: Coal
Boathouse suddenly kicked out; MoCo competing for FBI; No CaBi at the Pentagon; More express; No curbs for Alexandria street; Parking garages go mobile; Emissions kill; A few cars have big impact. Keep reading…
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See the Chesapeake’s rivers as a transit map
Cartographer Daniel Huffman has an amazing series of transit map-style diagrams. Instead of showing ground transportation, though, these show our systems of rivers. The one for the Chesapeake is fascinating. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the Potomac
Potomac study a foregone conclusion?; Bag fee still working; Less green lines; More on Ride-On-riding 5th grader; Drive less; Less for transit, more on trains; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cabs and CaBi
Cabs go plastic; Taxis against the world; CaBi in Fairfax?; NPS considering Arlington boathouse; Light rail gets PAC; Target streetcar, hit other things too; Get ready to fight in the states; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Down to the wire
Loudoun decide on Silver Line; Gray criticizes slow Pepco; Pepco too close to local officials?; Mapping DC’s power outages; Ohio Congressman targets streetcar funding; Apartments sell themselves through bikability; DC taxis threaten strike; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Download it
WiFi to VRE?; Ride On API on; Times are a changin’; Strip to mixed; Bollards unhelpful; Purple Line needs gas; Bike LA; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A new era in Ward 5
Councilmember McDuffie; Metro opens doors?; Res. 13 starts slowly; Budget harmony; Roads getting safer; Tweaks to Ike Memorial; Speed camera torched; Norton not allowed to represent; New Urbanists are the adults in the room; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: State power for car-centrism
VDOT’s way or the highway; Govs pushing Outer Beltway; Obama cuts Metro; Parking no longer King; Oops, we lost your rec center; Some CMs pass on raise; Tunnel too small; Bike to DCA; And…. Keep reading…
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14th Street bridge area needs a good bicycle connection
Bicycling to and from the 14th Street bridge on the DC side is not a pleasant experience. Cyclists must choose between harrowing high-speed roadways, too-narrow sidewalks, or long detours. The 14th Street Bridge EIS doesn’t address this connection, but it needs to, immediately. The Mount Vernon Trail, along the Potomac River in Virginia, has a few faults but it provides… Keep reading…