Posts tagged San Francisco
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Breakfast links: Hitting a wall
Free transit if you develop an app; Put the jobs near the people; Why-Mart?; Distracted reporter driving; Don’t be chicken; Klingle all the way; Two mayors on parking. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cutting back and cutting through
Cherry blossoms without Circulation; More park, less cut-through in SF; Dulles taxis unpopular; A tale of two Safeways; Parking far more subsidized; San Jose rail light but not rapid; Everybody wants the TIGER. Keep reading…
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Montgomery County, land of few names
Silver Spring or Colesville? North Bethesda or White Flint? With large swaths of unincorporated land and few official place names in some densely populated areas, Montgomery County residents frequently debate what, exactly, to call their homes. That’s becoming especially important as areas that were once just part of larger commercial strips, like White Flint, develop… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Green places also have quick curbs, market-priced meters, and safe trains
DC’s “green” places; Giving with one hand, taking away with another; Track circuts keep breaking; Metro restricts info?; 270 bad for environment, political balance; Watergate sold! Or, nobody bids on the Watergate!; Business owner prevents customers from parking at meters; Maybe San Francisco will do it. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Vox populi
Make no little plans for Summer Streets; Buses are confusing, what else is new?; Is NextBus data proprietary?; In search of an official modernist champion, you mean; Rails and trails; And…. Keep reading…
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New York, San Francisco “instant plazas” could inspire East Silver Spring
Two American cities recently gave streets back to the people, turning space once restricted to cars into plazas. Last weekend, New York turned Broadway around Times Square into pedestrian space, and last year transformed a chaotic intersection in the Meatpacking District into a successful public square. Just two weeks ago, San Francisco put out IKEA chairs and cardboard bollards… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Connect the dots
Virginia reconnects their grid; MoCo is caring about sharing; 13% of SmarBike subscribers live in other states; No more passes with Metrocheks; Chicago drivers annoyed by higher rates, snafus; Connolly looking to the next Metro extension; BART considers charging for parking on weekdays; Taller and greener in Arlington; Mini links. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: the march of technological progress
Fighting Maryland’s Luddism: Legislators and constituents have organized a Facebook campaign to overturn the Maryland General Assembly’s recent ban on using Facebook. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The morning after (the stimulus vote)
Counting our chickens: State and local officials have started discussing how to spend the stimulus money. Maryland’s John Porcari says they’ll prioritize repairs over new projects, which is the right choice; VDOT head Pierce Homer wants to pay for repairs and some of the delayed projects, meaning potentially more freeway widenings or new freeways. Most likely, according… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Up is down and it’s all in your head
Neighbors appeal for LESS parking? Can you believe it could ever happen? It’s not in DC, but San Francisco, where the Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association appealed a recent Planning Board decision allowing a project with 27 spaces for 36 units. Zoning only allows 18 units (one per two units), but the Planning Board can grant an exception. When they did, the neighborhood association… Keep reading…