Posts tagged Preservation
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Breakfast links II: Roads, rails and walls
Widening 270 is very bad for Baltimore; Yet another highway?; Game trains you to move cars above all; The people I used to be are ruining my neighborhood!; Riders not happy; Lynx links new riders to transit; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Peas and carrots
Building a hotel? Build a bike station too; Council holds land deals; Spoil the land for the greater good?; Hope Park?; Don’t close ‘em, add concessions; Old buildings are green; Parking around the globe; Just a little bit. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Same old, same old
Metro is more than just the train; ReadOn; Denser counties safer, motorcycling not; More stop sign tickets; A loophole and a sex-shop flounder; A fourth the parking; Advice to GOP: Be innovative, except in transportation?; Wonder Woman wins!. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Nothing in life is free
Germantown parking district; Valet park for class?; Not so brotherly on TV; “Panhandling meters”; Dupont row house saved!; You get what you pay for, but safer anyway; The unusual vs. the mundane; Federal safety grants?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Today in buildings
If you don’t like your historic building, let it fall down?; You say “of its time,” I say “faux modernism”; Making the FBI building work; Good plan, bad design for Walgreens?; Hotel isn’t more important than everything else; Purple Line beats opponents, highways at TPB; And…. Keep reading…
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Afternoon Links: University vs. Residents
GUTS, or just GALL? The Georgetown ANC is demanding that Georgetown University stop running most of its GUTS shuttles on Georgetown streets, except on traffic-choked Canal Road and M Street. In particular, buses on Reservoir Road, a four-lane arterial, have drawn the ire of the Commission, with some residents complaining that the buses are “wreaking havoc on… Keep reading…
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They’re not historic, but shouldn’t be a parking lot
The first post on Greater Greater Washington about historic preservation that didn’t deal with Third Church dates to March 10, 2008, and bears the title, “Historic preservation: a blunt instrument for design review.” Today, the historic preservation process remains a very blunt instrument for design review, and an even more blunt instrument for use regulation. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Withdrawal symptoms
Performance Diet Coke-ing; Delusional parkers; Cars and graves only; Ode to concrete; Sprawl harms our health; Post says “don’t stop”; Will Americans break the addiction?; And. Keep reading…