Posts tagged Rockville
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Breakfast links: Purple Line pushback
Another Purple Line delay?; Rockville pines for free parking; Alexandria’s SafeTrack plan; New zoning code, new digs; SafeTrack on schedule; Maintenance briefly derailed; The bell tolls for I-66 budget; Free parking isn’t free. Keep reading…
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Pike + Rose is an experiment in modern ornament
The Pike + Rose development on Rockville Pike is a surprisingly experimental collection of buildings. It’s contemporary in style, but also filled with architectural ornament. The result upends the common architectural conceit that ornament cannot be “of our time.” Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Keep it moving
How was the commute?; Think of the children; Coin compromise; Rockville Pike plans; Metro match up; Hottest ‘hoods; To buy or not to buy; Heads up. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Derailed
A bad derailment; The battle over Westbard; Transit for Tobytown; Office oversupply; Reconsidering DC’s ‘burbs; Keeping the space in AdMo; Sidwell friends or enemies?; Young and ready to build. Keep reading…
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Rockville misses the forest for the trees with its plan for an 18-lane mega main street
Rockville Pike could one day become a 252-foot-wide mega boulevard with 12 car lanes, 4 bike lanes, 2 bus lanes, and over 50 feet of landscaping. But in designing a street with more than ample room for cars, bikes, and buses, planners abandon any hope the street will be walkable. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Budget bliss and big boulevards
Budget autonomy for the District; Wide plans for Rockville Pike; Bye bye Bi-County Parkway; Lyft discrimination; DCRA’s document drag; Metro-free nuclear zone; Proximity is key; Federally walk-blocked; What’s in a name?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dude, where’s my railcar
New railcars on hold; Strengthen your core; Housing and politics; Meadowlands for DC?; Poor job on job training; Rockville tunnel; No development for Lake Anne; Biz for Prince George’s; FreshPAC money back; MoCo tackles student debt. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Virginia votes
Silberberg, Dorsey, Cristol win; Status quo in Richmond; “Momentum” beats “moratorium”; Metro opens doors to…; Didn’t want the spotlight; Bad news rises; Go small and go home; Closer to closing DC General; No cars allowed, but transit is free; And…. Keep reading…
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The MARC’s Brunswick Line only goes one way in the AM and the other in the PM. It could do both.
Service on the MARC Brunswick Line only runs one way at a time: toward DC in the morning and away from DC in the afternoon and evening, on weekdays only. Some MARC riders think there is a simple way to make service between DC and Brunswick run both ways in the early and mid-afternoon. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rides for all
No room on the bus; Keeping Metro safe; Rockville debates Confederate monument; Set up shop; Not an accident; Nats fans use Metro. Keep reading…