Posts tagged Preservation
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Breakfast links: Bound to happen
Where the rubber meets the road; No Alexandria streetcar?; 2 candidates announce; Improve before CaBi; More taxes, please; Passenger could reopen after a ride; Someone’s listening; Toll debt; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Push back
Councilmembers hate taxi colors; Juvenile arguments on policy; What’s endangered; Amtrak returns to Norfolk; Walter Reed intersection keeps expanding; Fine camera operators for errors?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: See progress
Turn off the dark; Anacostia loses grocery store; No one wants to run trolleys; A few speed limits rise; Get stuff for more height; Frumin running at large; Where will the FBI go?; We can learn from Barcelona; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Go the distance
Silver Line to Largo requires extra silver; Spingarn gets historic; No rentals at St. E’s?; Council committee giveth; Council committee taketh away; What changed after Rhee?; Can Amtrak ever satisfy Congress?; And…. Keep reading…
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Vacant Congress Heights building holds relics of the past
“Look at that thing! That’s an antique!” says William Alston-El as two workers in yellow vests and hard hats emerge from the long-vacant Wilson Courts in Congress Heights. The men carry an aged band saw. “Man, I’ve been working with tools my entire life and I’ve never seen anything like that,” Alston-El observes with reverence as we angle… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A step back
Court voids DC’s taxi smart meter contract; Maryland to run out of transportation money?; Virginia grounds its speed-enforcing planes; Structured vs. informal on sports fields; Democrats will fill Phil’s old spot; Washington Post’s editor to step down; Where do Uber riders go?; Cities beat GOP; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Veterans
Thank you, veterans; Post not local enough; Fairfax court goes light on speeding, DUI; Efficient transit = expensive housing?; Restonians want less Silver Line TOD; 3 townhouses won’t be parking; And…. Keep reading…
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Spingarn streetcar barn design is fine, but not exemplary
Last night, DDOT released renderings of its design for the proposed Spingarn streetcar barn. The proposal is a passable building, but the design is likely to disappoint residents who’d been expecting great architecture. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Grocery shopping
Nobody bikes for groceries?; No more Yes; Reduce car spaces, add bike spaces; Safety before ATC; More transit, fewer cars; No damage to Metro except pocketbook; Obama on transportation; And…. Keep reading…
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Spingarn car barn design sounds good, but isn’t public
DDOT has apparently been hard at work designing an attractive streetcar maintenance facility at the corner of Benning Road and 26th Street, NE. They’ve worked extensively with historic preservation officials on what sounds like a good design, but still have yet to release it publicly. Today, DDOT presented the concept design to the Historic Preservation Review Board… Keep reading…