Posts tagged Shaw
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Breakfast links: Musical chairs
Vihstadt wins; Tommy may run; And Yvette may run; Holder defends investigation; Mikulski questions Metro; Rock Creek repairs soon?; M is for Mostly finished; Purple Line Holocaust bill stalls; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Snowmagaindon
Another winter storm is here; Just don’t call it “Silicon _____”; But the Post won’t be a part; Re-timing DC’s traffic lights; How can we get to “Vision Zero”?; The many causes of crime; De Blasio pushes for affordable housing; Fewer urban highways?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Saving the city
Self-policing DC; Best design of the year?; Shaw and Anacostia sites ready for development; Pay-to-play meter deal; Defense of streetcar in Arlington; Urbanism from scratch; 1 car = 10 bikes; 11-year BRT timeline; Utah’s transit gem. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: For Rent
The rent is too high; Affordable housing saved; Affordable housing gone; DC’s changing demographics; ANCs losing weight; New plans for Columbia; I-66 going up; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Correlation is not gentrification
Gentrification by the numbers; Living wage debate restarts; Just tickets for cyclist death; DeBlasio plans to increase housing supply; As base grows, so does Columbia; Loudoun contemplating Silver Line loan; NYC releases safe streets design guide; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stand still or move forward?
Keep it short; Pay-by-phone arrives in Alexandria; Huge gains in DC biking; Vote on a living wage?; A better bike map?; A new Shaw; Deeds stabbed, son shot; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The constant skyline
No height increases in L’Enfant City; Inner Harbor improvements; New development may fund housing; Microsoft is coming to St. Elizabeths; Further details emerge on FBI site; Opposition threatens King Street bike lanes; The future of retailing; HOT lanes’s first birthday; And…. Keep reading…
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New murals sprout across DC
DC is awash in murals. Four new murals recently went up as part of an arts festival sponsored by Heineken. Ward 7 residents banded together to give a beloved restaurant a mural. And a filmmaker’s making a documentary about what murals mean to DC’s culture. Located on Pennsylvania Avenue SE just east of the Anacostia River, Thai Orchid is the sole sit-down restaurant… Keep reading…
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Less parking needed for housing atop Metro, not more
The developer of a new residential building at 7th & R streets NW in Shaw plans just 40 parking spaces for 105 units, but ANC commissioners say it isn’t enough. Is more parking actually necessary? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Parking on top
Multi-use parking garage; Parking funds for transit; Bikeshare in Howard County?; Mural against graffiti; Hyperloop for the future?; Generational divide?; Fuel for DC growth. Keep reading…