Posts tagged Rock Creek
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Breakfast links: Fewer trains, more cars
Longer trains on Red Line; Women’s History Museum moves forward; Scrambling in Northern Virginia; More bike lanes, not in Chevy Chase; Convention Center hotel in Shaw; Clean the Anacostia; Hooking up on P Street; Taking on Buy America. Keep reading…
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The interesting story of the Dumbarton Bridge
It’s easy to ignore a thing of beauty when you pass it every single day. It’s even easier to ignore it when you cruise over on top of it in a bus or car. The “it” in question is the Dumbarton Bridge, and today I want to stop and take in the bridge’s beauty and tell its interesting story. Georgetown was formed in 1751, decades before the founding of the District… Keep reading…
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Students fix Foggy Bottom’s waterfront problems
Lydia DePillis’s constant attendance at community meetings turned up a fascinating plan from the Catholic University Urban Design Studio to improve some of Foggy Bottom’s biggest flaws: the mess of freeways between the neighborhood and the waterfront. A professor and team of students came up with the vision, which has no funding but which DePillis reports they… Keep reading…
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DDOT ponders four decisions for Klingle Valley trail
DDOT has released the Klingle Valley Trail Environmental Assessment to build a trail through Klingle Valley. For those not familiar with the area, Klingle Valley is the tributary of Rock Creek between Woodley and Cleveland Park, where a former road washed out in 1991 and kicked off a multi-decade debate about whether to build a new road or a trail that was resolved in favor of the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Silly and serious
Are we “yuppies”? Are streetcars “toys”?; Papers without patience; Google made them build an unsafe road?; No videotaping police misconduct?; Riding it all; Georgetown streetcars tonight; Bike bits; Can the best congestion model sell congestion pricing?. Keep reading…
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Chalupi Architekti unveils design for Czech Embassy
The Embassy of the Czech Republic has announced a design for a new building to replace an aging facility on Tilden Street in Northwest DC. The current embassy is a not-quite-modernist structure at the edge of Rock Creek Park near Peirce Mill. The new structure will be a postmodern Y-shaped landscraper that clings to the site, in a flattened valley. The architects are Prague-based… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It’s easy being green
Zoo listens to us; Green plan, needs green money; Planning Department veggies; People and things bumping cyclists; Rosslyn’s temporary plaza; The art avenue; X marks the cuts; Vote in Congress versus home rule. Keep reading…
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National Zoo blocks pedestrian access from the east
Tourists often reach the National Zoo by Metro to the Connecticut Avenue entrance. But many local residents walk or bike to the east side gate off Harvard Street from Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant, or nearby neighborhoods. Begninning this spring, they have been turned away, as the Zoo closed all east side entrances due to construction. At the Harvard Street bridge, a sign directs… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cleared to go
Omni Shovelem; MoCoCo approves; Meters are annoying; Oppose PG planner switch for justice; Alternative to bag fee? No; Free bus with your bread; Marriage Day. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Remaining snow, coming storms
Rock Creek branch storage path; Speak up on the Fairfax budget; BLT or fries at White Flint?; Outer Beltway bill rises from the dead; Designs for Four Mile Run expansion; Yummy soot; And…. Keep reading…