Posts tagged Rockville
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Breakfast links: We all need a little calming
Head under la hood; A fancy bridge doesn’t make it green; Breaking out of “two leg perspective”; Speed cameras working; How about in Southeast?; Not a ham sandwich; Our streets belong to drivers. Keep reading…
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Silver Spring library skybridge rejected
Proposals for a skybridge connecting Silver Spring’s new library to the adjacent parking garage became even more remote yesterday, as Montgomery County’s Health and Human Services and Planning, Housing, and Economic Development Committees voted to uphold the existing prohibitions against skybridges in downtown Silver Spring. The Silver Spring CBD Urban… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Benefits not always visible
iSee subway stations; Oh, there’s a Metro station there?; Cantorism in NoVA; Hands off our pike; Medical Center Metro entrance lives to fight another day; Nobody wants to live here, except lots of people; Don’t drink and dial; Underground pipe to waterfront park. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Watch out
A new low; New bus bunching watchdog; Obama park?; Dangerous or uninformed?; If all spending were that dumb, we’d all agree to cut it; Portland to copy us; Boo for ghostboxes. Keep reading…
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Gaithersbungle, part 4: Why emulate Tysons’ existing road network?
In the first three parts of this series (1, 2, 3), we discussed the folly of spending $4 billion to widen I-270 instead of focusing development in denser areas and beefing up MARC to better serve the 270 corridor with existing infrastructure. Keep reading…
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The high cost of bad parking arguments
Why parking is not like ice cream; The high cost of Rockville garages; The high cost of free evening parking; Vote Wonder Woman. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Don’t be scared
Whoosh; Nothing to fear from overhead wires; Why people like streetcars; Are signboards so bad?; Counties eye ending parking subsidies; GOOD and bad on transit; Dc changes mind on CFSA move, imperils Ward 7 project; Are Virginia counties hoarding education stimulus money?; Still not inclusionary, again. Keep reading…
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Morning links: A sometimes merry land
Support the Pike; From Secretary to Deputy Secretary; Wider, wider, wider; Planner argues stadium opponents missing the point; Crash means holes in the ground; Back in brick; Don’t drink and bike in Poland; Police fee? Streetlight fee? Why not a congestion fee?; The simple answer: Eliminate public transportation. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: bikes, brothels and bloggers
Bike lane blockers: In this comic strip, we see what happens when our hero runs across a car parked in the bicycle lane. No, no cars get keyed. (Tip: Steven) Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More pedestrians there, more cars here
Midtown Manhattan’s Broadway to go pedestrian-only: Times Square and Herald Square are some of the nation’s most crowded outdoor spaces. Diagonal Broadway jams up traffic on Sixth and Seventh Avenues, by taking away traffic signal time from the avenues. Yesterday, New York announced an innovative solution Keep reading…