Posts tagged Riverdale Park
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Breakfast links: Metro plan reactions
Can Metro get its billions?; Build high to dig deep; Police harassed sexual assault victims?; Alexandria to ax bike registration; Cafritz in trouble?; Credit card readers delayed; Hill East gets one bid; Oregon Avenue won’t get bike path; Runaway train never going back; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Laws and scofflaws
Fake parking passes at Walter Reed; Riverdale Park may return camera revenue; Arenas hurt cities?; New York and Chicago’s bike sharing delayed; Greeks move towards bicycles; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Make it high speed
Make the NEC high-speed, gradually; California moves ahead with high-speed rail; Uber would be legal, but have to stay pricey; McDuffie opposes car barn; Cafritz project approved; Gray election consultant charged; DC breathalyzers may return; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Emancipation
A competitive general?; Many reasons; Conflicts go online; Bike bits; Taxes broken less often; Along the Purple Line; Before the Old Post Office was old; Bikeshare goes Hollywood; Did sidewalks add to Trayvon tragedy?. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Empty promises
ICC costs more than money; Reconciliation takes time; Traffic cameras not raking in the bucks; Stores get a surprise; Capitol Hemp alleges injustice; Push the primary; The biker blame game; The slow attrition of car use; And…. Keep reading…
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Cafritz project tests Prince George’s commitment to TOD
The owners of the Cafritz property in Riverdale Park want a zoning change to build a major mixed-use development on a wooded, 37-acre single-family-zoned property with, at best, mediocre access to transit. If Prince George’s County is serious about its commitment to smart growth and development around its 15 Metro stations, it will deny the rezoning. In recent years,… Keep reading…
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Largo is transit-ready for Whole Foods
Recently, there has been quite a bit of hoopla among northern Prince George’s County residents over whether the Cafritz Property, a single-family residential-zoned tract in Riverdale Park, is an appropriate transit-oriented place to locate the county’s first Whole Foods Market. Meanwhile, in central Prince George’s, at the Boulevard at the Capital… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pedal pusher
CaBi gets one Post editor biking; Limbaugh calls Cheh “babe,” gets facts wrong; Why the projects failed; The answer is infill; Congress slow-walking FBI relocation; Skyland still in limbo; Placemaking in Baltimore; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not very ethical
An abrupt end; Kwame vs. press, part 1; Kwame vs. press, part 2; Neighbors want retail; Neighbors and Cafritz get closer; Fight for the transit benefit; Fairfax school crumbling; How to fix Amtrak; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast tweets: Drops on Metro
Weekend ridership falls on Metro after aggressive trackwork starts (Examiner, @kytja, @perkinsms) Crime on Metro drops in 3rd quarter of 2011 (Post, @vebah) A group of senators is pushing to extend the commuter tax benefit before it runs out (The Hill, @ajfroggie) Even the Competitive Enterprise Institute opposes GOP plan to subsidize roads with oil drilling revenue… Keep reading…