Posts tagged Rosslyn
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Breakfast links: Exceptions
Strip club wants bike lane exception too; DDOT work upsets drivers; Chuck Brown Park breaks ground; Patent troll shut down; Affordable housing goes downtown; More mixed-use coming to Rosslyn; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Influence
There is a (little) bike lobby; Is the council too powerful?; Safeway expands, goes mixed-use; Fence blocks the way; No jail for Raquel Nelson; Fraud with disability parking; Education elements; House may scrap Ike design; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Eyes on bikes and pedestrians
MBT cameras not helpful; MD bike and ped update; Future of Georgetown; IZ update; Goodbye Examiner; More Metro data; More neighbors against mixed-use Safeway; Nerds on the train; Metro morsels. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the waterfront
Who wants the FBI?; Gondola to Georgetown?; Camera camera works; The Warren Quarter; Narrow thinking on “safety”; Jury excuses killing cyclist; Eyes on the street, not?; And…; And and…. Keep reading…
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Men are from Rosslyn, women are from upper Northwest
Aimee Custis sent along a great map from Trulia, showing the ratio of single (straight) men to single (straight) women across the region: The Washington metropolitan area and “Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick,” which the Trulia data breaks out separately, have the nation’s highest ratio of women to men among the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan… Keep reading…
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Metro’s stuffed full at Rosslyn. What can be done?
Why aren't there more Orange or Blue Line trains? Rosslyn, one of the biggest chokepoints in the system. Here are some proposals Metro has made to fix this problem. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Another way
Third track on Brunswick?; Beltway goes HOT; Oh yeah, Rosslyn; Hotel bad for businesses?; Ikes don’t like memorial; Vouchers lack controls; Baltimore goes international; Pop at the bus stop; And…. Keep reading…
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Relive a pretty afternoon on the ballpark ferry
Washington’s growing fleet of water taxis are useful as transportation, but they’re also a fun and unique way to see the city. I used an American River Taxi to travel to a Nationals game a few weeks ago, and photographed the trip for posterity. ART ferries sailing to the ballpark pick up passengers at Washington Harbor, in Georgetown. Boats pull directly up to the boardwalk,… Keep reading…
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Park(ing) Day highlights the value of green, public space
Last Friday, the District and Arlington temporarily transformed pavement into parkland to celebrate Park(ing) Day, the annual event to raise awareness and generate discussion about how cities use public space. The pop-up parks showcased the value that green, public space has for communities, even in an area as small as a parking space. The largest Park(ing) Day space was in… Keep reading…
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Parks popping up tomorrow for Park(ing) Day
Tomorrow is Park(ing) Day, where civic leaders and everyday people turn on-street parking spaces into temporary public parks to demonstrate the different ways we can use our public space. In our region, there will be parks tomorrow at the Wilson Building, Metro Center, and in Rosslyn. Along Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the Wilson Building (between 14th and 13½ Street),… Keep reading…