Posts tagged Sidewalks
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Breakfast links: Make the point
The graph that moves backward; Sarles should push harder, ride buses; MA’s bicycle Republican; Construction pushes peds into street; War on grand staircases; Sun rising on East Campus; Iconic bus map?. Keep reading…
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Sidewalk Assurance Act going to markup tomorrow
Tomorrow, the DC Council Committee on Public Works and Transportation will vote on a bill to require installing sidewalks on at least one side of any street reconstruction. In many parts of DC, streets lack sidewalks. In many cases, these are the same areas with low rates of car ownership, large numbers of children walking to school, and large percentages of senior citizens. DDOT… Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Affordable and accessible
We’re really affordable!; Every bus stop is political; PG snow debate neglects pedestrians?; Bloggers for WMATA Board?; GPS making us dumb?; Congress to dig holes, point transit systems into it?; Development dispatches. 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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Tenleytowners digging each other out
Like most Washingtonians, I’m sick of trudging over the snow. I’m especially tired of walking over increasingly icy sidewalks that should have been shoveled by the adjacent property owners. It is, after all, required by law that all sidewalks be cleared within eight hours of final snowfall. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fight for your rights in the states
Vienna sides with pedestrians; 3 feet today in VA; Maryland’s bills; What Metro needs; How to fight the state DOT; Design the next Golden Triangle bike rack; Not so sure on Wheaton Costco; Who’d win in a fight, Montgomery or Fairfax?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transit, Kwame, and Prince George
Government now allowed to consider livability; Softer side of Catoe; Circulator to River East?; Sidewalks still not assured; PG Council displeased with camera reversal; Sun setting on Westphalia?; The High Cost of Free Parking: the movie. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Extend the lane
Ward 1 ANC supports bike lane; DumbBike after the snow; Eight feet for Seven Locks; Road rager gets 5; Montgomery’s density debates; Who can give the most?; SAD = Saw Avatar Depression?; And…. Keep reading…
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Large buildings have no excuse for not shoveling
Property owners in DC, as in most other cities, are legally required to clear sidewalks adjacent to their property. Keep reading…
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Reconstruction of 17th Street NW to begin Monday
The long-planned streetscape project for 17th Street between Massachusetts and New Hampshire Avenues will begin on Monday. DDOT staffers updated residents at a community meeting last night. This project will bring ADA-compliant curb ramps, new tree boxes, street lamps and new road and sidewalk surfaces to 17th Street. When asked for a comparison project with a similar look… Keep reading…