Posts tagged Road Safety
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Breakfast links: Correlation is not gentrification
Gentrification by the numbers; Living wage debate restarts; Just tickets for cyclist death; DeBlasio plans to increase housing supply; As base grows, so does Columbia; Loudoun contemplating Silver Line loan; NYC releases safe streets design guide; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Sorry!
Metro apologizes; Traffic deaths rise; Who uses the 495 Express Lanes?; Not your father’s Beltway commute; DC area as Millennial magnet; Is community organizing a jobs engine?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Virginia highways
Dulles toll going up; Highway growth continues; Casino bidding war; St. Elizabeths pavilion opens; Should transit worker strikes be illegal?; Pedestrian and cyclist traffic deaths rise; Chicago passes Portland in biker count; London bans subterranean expansions; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Livability everywhere
CaBi is coming to College Park; Leesburg approves wider sidewalks; Virginia studies Route 1 transit; DDOT considers new bike routes; New development strains Metro; Politician driving recklessly; How to evaluate transportation?; And…. Keep reading…
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How will “connected vehicles” affect urbanism?
A consortium of Virginia schools will soon start testing vehicles in Fairfax County that can talk to each other and their surroundings. But what will “connected vehicles” (CV) really mean for transportation and urbanism? Researchers have attached tracking equipment to light poles and other roadside infrastructure in and around Merrifield, including stretches… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Can’t live here
Investors foreclose on homes; Demand overwhelms affordable Arlington building; A fix for Transit Center?; Taxpayers may pay $500 million for rail-trails; US DOT’s strategic plan lacks vision; Traffic congestion starts again; Survey favors biking and walking; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cool enough for Olympics?
DC for 2024 Olympics?; Touting benefits of hosting Olympics; DC unveils “cool” new marketing campaign; DC area still ranks high for meetings; Residents still unhappy with 5333 Connecticut; Suspicions confirmed?; Laurel mixed-use to promote art; Easy way to protect cyclists?; Something smells; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Development under the lens
Red Line could close for 6 weeks; How United stadium stacks up; Skyland awaits a decision on Walmart; Too many developers on CTB?; Do parking taxes help development?; Are yard requirements increasing housing costs?; More traffic cameras in Maryland; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Approved
Bike lanes win over ANC; Council passes wage bill; And many more bills; WMATA tweets in more places; People use express lanes, tolls rise; Speed cameras worked for France; First IZ condo unit sells (finally); Housing market, recovered?; Housing prices of yesteryear; Get bike tips from the crowd; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Crash
Plane crashes; road crashes; Build over I-66?; Virginia fights over transportation; Reasons for congestion drops; Metro pulls up flowers; Some feds to Branch Avenue; Purple Line pieces; Hailo a cab soon; Will rents’ rise slow?; And…. Keep reading…