Posts tagged Schools
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Breakfast links: The bike Rorschach test
Prince William County still sprawling; Metro collaborating with programmers; Increasingly alone driving alone; The Lorax army; Not all buses are created equal; Yes, schools still matter; Underground Fight Club; DC a hard place for Latinos; Spinning up conspiracies. Keep reading…
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Bruce-Monroe won’t stay a park, might not be a school
As the Washington City Paper reported, DC released an RFP to redevelop the former Bruce-Monroe school site on July 26th. The RFP could lead to a new school on the site, but also opens up the possibility of other uses that fund school improvements off site. The stated long-term goal of the property has been to build a new Bruce-Monroe school, yet significant obstacles — most… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Gotta lotta news
June’s service disruptions; Crash on K; “The park is parked”; What a cyclist sees; Virginians packing Amtrak; Roaring for bike sharing; The one good MLK Library view; Greater grocers; Even more ART; The other late-night change; Safe cars buried, then destroyed. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Let’s dance
Yup, a Barnes Dance; The sordid saga of 1922 3rd; AAA national doesn’t hate bikes like AAA Mid-Atlantic does; Not a crash at all; Jellef will stay with Maret, get lights; Temporary housing in the backyard? Why not?; Keep buying produce, Bethesda; Walk! ing! Town!. Keep reading…
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Silver Spring school leaving, could become 75 homes
With most of their students coming from outside Montgomery, the Chelsea School will leave Downtown Silver Spring in 2012 and has sold their property on Pershing Drive to a local developer hoping to build up to 75 new townhomes there. Representatives from the private, special-needs school met with neighbors at a meeting of the adjacent Seven Oaks-Evanswood Civic Association… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Law-abiding, at least in Jersey
That’s respect; Stop for pedestrians in New Jersey; Charges pending already?; Don’t drive, especially here; Close M Street in G’town weekends?; 2 school fires; PG’s missed opportunities; Old, white, retired people. Keep reading…
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Bruce-Monroe to get “temporary urbanism” over parking lot
What do you do with vacant land whose developments stall in an economic recession? One option is to turn all empty space into paid parking lots, which generates revenue but brings traffic and little benefit to communities. The other is to find interim uses that serve people rather than cars, also known as “temporary urbanism.” In 2008, the District closed the Bruce-Monroe… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: All in the family
Kids + buses = challenge; Dense housing is for families too; I’m on the radio, twice; New daytime parking deal in Adams Morgan; DC gets snow money, Alexandria ha’ sno money; Another tax break; MARC Area’s Really Crowded. Keep reading…
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Potomac Yard Metro: “We can see the finish line”
At last Thursday’s Potomac Yard Planning Advisory Group (PYPAG) meeting, Alexandria’s Deputy Director of Planning and Zoning Jeff Farner joked that this will “probably” be the last one, which drew a few tentative chuckles from the group. The planning of Potomac Yard seems to have gone on for years if not decades. The goal for the product of over a year… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Keeping people from getting hit
Marlene is making Conn. Ave safer; Live in Ward 6? Walk?; Seattleites, panhandler rescue woman on tracks; That’s some delay; Spelunking below Dupont; Also in the DC Council; Poverty becoming a suburban problem. Keep reading…