Posts tagged Roads
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Breakfast links: Good job, reporters and juries
Putting you in danger; Headline a flop, article good; Don’t let the growth policy flop; Deliberately hurt two cyclists, go to jail; Tax shelter hazard rears its head again; Everybody cross now. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Space to walk and bike
And the winners are…; Get off the (local) road; How to utilize street space for people; Velo vandals; ICC tolls no surprise; Let’s grow the Branch; Parking from SF to Tulsa. Keep reading…
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Rein’s “OMG $15 billion” Tysons costs include transportation far from Tysons
Today’s Washington Post reports that Tysons transportation improvements will cost $15 billion. There’s just one problem: it’s false. The article, bearing the alarmist headline, “Tysons will need $15 billion — ‘with a B,’” begins: Remaking Tysons Corner into the second city of Washington will take a lot more than a new… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Get transit-oriented
How about some Oriented Development with your Transit?; Maryland agencies to become more transit-oriented; City-dwelling car-loving writers riding transit; Inalienable right to get light poles moved?; School with safer routes; Now there were three against HOT lanes; People not so mad about ICC tolls. Keep reading…
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SHA avoids the T word in 270 reply
Back in the summer, after an outcry over the high $4 billion price tag for widening I-270, the Montgomery County Council decided to hold off on any decisions until it could get answers to a few little pesky questions. They asked the Maryland State Highway Administration to respond by early September, but SHA took until the end of last week to respond. Despite the long time frame, their… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Saluting substitutes or subsidies
Salute to pedestrian safety; Metro schedules Maryland town halls; No substitute for the automobile?; Amtrak subsidies high? Still not clear; Laurel traffic now calmer; If you can push for parking here, you can push for it anywhere; And…. Keep reading…
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Want to run a freeway through your voters’ neighborhood? The Post will endorse you
On Sunday, the Washington Post endorsed candidates for the Virginia House of Delegates. In District 48, which covers the northernmost sections of Arlington, Rosslyn and Clarendon, and Crystal City and its surrounding neighborhoods, Republican Aaron Ringel is challenging incumbent Democrat Bob Brink. The Post decided to endorse Ringel based on one issue alone:… Keep reading…
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Leggett wants direct pedestrian paths except when they’d interfere with traffic
Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett’s isn’t giving up on proposals for an anti-urban skybridge connecting the Silver Spring library to a parking garage. This past weekend, Leggett unveiled concept sketches for the new library at Wayne Avenue and Fenton Street. It strongly evokes images of “an open book,” along with large glass windows said… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Anything for security
MARC will sniff your bags; Park Service reluctantly accepts trees in their bollard preserve; More on the Mall; Quick, build strip malls before we decide not to; Resident discounts for ICC tolls?; Boyds for transit; Way ahead of us in Germany. Keep reading…
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Do “we have to do something” about traffic but not transit?
Why do many of our leaders in suburban jurisdictions see new roads as necessary and inevitable, but new transit as difficult and unlikely? I’ve been meeting with elected officials in the region about transportation and development issues. One representative from Montgomery County recently expressed a general sentiment among area leaders that “we have to do… Keep reading…