Posts tagged Shoveling
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Breakfast links: Could be more walkable or bikeable
Tysons hit and run; Learning from Walk Scores; Bike infrastructure cut again; King Street’s fences; Transit worth it; Intrigue in PG planning; And…. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Virginia rails rule
Money train to Lynchburg; VRE gains Gainesville study; Work out on the train; Out of sight but not out of mind; Driver texting?; DC eagerly repeating DC USA; It’s not “your” space. Keep reading…
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Prince George’s must ensure pedestrian and rider safety
We now know the ultimate price of Prince George’s County’s abysmal failure to clear the County’s pedestrian pathways in a timely manner after the record-setting snowstorms earlier this month: People get killed. On the morning of Thursday, February 18, 2010, 32-year-old Asa Fukuhara, a promising electrical engineer who worked for the U.S. Department… Keep reading…
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Links across the nation (and world): At the extremes
NYC vs. Houston; Houston vs. NYC; 5 cents in Baltimore?; Robot turns snow into bricks; Curbing curb cuts in SF; Mixed-use in Mountain View; Driverless trains?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On a mission
$18M for snow, $1B for railcars; Shovel in Deanwood; Real estate mission delayed; Hoboken fixing parking by improving other modes; LaHood is reading!; No more Lincoln Memorial (or trolley car). Keep reading…
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Shovel brigades clear out sidewalks and bus stops
While some people look forward to getting their street plowed after weeks of heavy snowfall, those who walk or use public transit to get around have a whole new problem: snowplows often push the snow into the sidewalk, leaving piles of hardened, icy snow several feet high. No doubt you’ve seen people walking along the sides of major local roads, like Randolph Road in Montgomery… Keep reading…
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Join the shovel teams at 3
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Let’s shovel bus stops Sunday
Give a hand. Save a hip. Bus stops all over the region are not safely accessible because of snow mountains, slush and ice. Taxpayer-funded Metro can’t shovel out 12,000 bus stops. Let’s make George Washington proud and go shovel. Keep reading…
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Shoveling hall of shame: Dick Durbin and NPS
Dick Durbin has joined the ranks of Congressmen who pick on DC for its inability to instantly, magically melt several feet of snow that smashed the all-time record. But Durbin might want to look a little closer to home for the source of some problems. Along Pennsylvania Avenue, for example, the worst job clearing snow came from the National Park Service, part of the federal… Keep reading…
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Shoveling hall of shame: MarcParc
Reader Jeb sends along this particularly egregious example of failure to shovel. But in this case, they shoveled plenty, just not the sidewalks. Keep reading…