Posts tagged Routes To School
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Two Walk to School Day events provoke the question: Are these routes made for walking?
Kids across DC gathered with caregivers and their wider school communities on Wednesday, October 2 to make the point that students should be able to walk to school safely. We caught up with two of these Walk to School Day celebrations, one in Anacostia and the other in Capitol Hill. Here are some of our observations. Keep reading…
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Drivers hit four DC schoolchildren in the first days of the school year
An alarming (but sadly, not surprising) message came over my neighborhood email list recently. The Deputy Chief of Operations and Programs for DC Public Schools, wrote: “In the first 7 days of the traditional school calendar, DCPS have had 4 situations (that we are aware of) where a student and/or a caregiver was struck by a vehicle near one of our schools.” Keep reading…
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Walkers were left out in the cold after the blizzard
If you try to walk around in many parts of our region, particularly in the suburbs, it’s easy to get the feeling that you’re an afterthought, at best. Governments’ actions in the recent “Snowzilla” blizzard show even more clearly how being “multimodal” is more lip service than reality. Keep reading…
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If students were cars, schools would have opened sooner
Many of the region’s schools closed for a full week after the recent blizzard, leaving parents to scramble for childcare and students missing out on valuable classroom time. That’s what happens when your storm recovery efforts prioritize making it easy to drive rather than giving everyone a safe way to move around. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Housing too hot
Flipped; Homeownership declines for poor; Woof goes WMATA; Ticket to ride; Think of the children; Budget bites; If you build it, they will come; Non-gentrifying bridge; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cut off
All falls down; Emancipation Day; High flying; Location, location; Wage wants; Goodies; No fly zone; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: After Boston
Cities go on high alert; Mara profited from past donors; Unbuilt VA highway already creating sprawl?; This garage is convertible; DC gov subsidizes parking more; Sidewalk wars come to Hyattsville; Big verdict for unsafe bus stop; Metro fights fatigue; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trick or treat
Walkable = trick-or-treatable; Start up in Anacostia; Shut the door; Belward cleared for building; Charters lead to integration; Roads get emergency money faster; Not a safe route to school; Metro opens data; how can you use it?; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Burn
Imhoff/Brizill house burns down; Cabbies behaving badly; Whose gax tax is it?; Preserve ze space; Flip the switch, save a bird; Why biking to school got rare; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Deeply divided
Virginia Senate divided over Silver Line; Maryland divided over special session; Council vs. mayor; LivingSocial gets LivingSocial-type deal on taxes; Buses down; Taller building gets OK; Kids allowed to walk to school; Fix DC elections; Peck wrongly sent packing?; And…. Keep reading…