Posts tagged Sidewalks
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Breakfast links: Alphabet soup and libertarians
Walk and Roll for smoothies; Soft on sidewalks?; CTA goes open; AAA OK: Bikes are OK; Hawkins to lead WASA; Let the market decide except in parking?; Houston does have zoning. Keep reading…
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Howard Town Center racing to hit the low bar
On Monday evening, CastleRock Partners, the development team selected by Howard University after a decades-long back-story for its Howard Town Center project on Georgia Avenue at V Street, presented its concept for the site at a meeting hosted by the Pleasant Plains Civic Association. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dear Current, please get a real Web site
Sidewalks, assured; Don’t drive? You must not live here; These go to Elevenleytown; Tall TOD at PG Plaza?; Days since last injury: 1; Metro keeping its escalators; Cowening before trains; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Still safer than driving, but how safe?
Another Metro fatality; Near-crash kept secret; Sidewalks: Prudent or fascist?; Feet in the Street really in the Park; Most prefer MARC to Hagerstown; Highways displace streetcars, again; Take me out on the water to the ballgame. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: We all need a little calming
Head under la hood; A fancy bridge doesn’t make it green; Breaking out of “two leg perspective”; Speed cameras working; How about in Southeast?; Not a ham sandwich; Our streets belong to drivers. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: No money but mo’ problems
Two externality-busting revenue sources survive; Safety net still to be saved; Nightmare in two years; $0 for roads, 0 for ideas; Dutch road pricing coming; Stupid, indeed; Sidewalks on Kojo; Park easier. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Full of hot air
Subway air-powered art; How’s your track doing?; Country lane or hazard to children? Both?; No room for books between the parking lots; Shaw rejoices; Gaithersburg fairly progressive after all; Roundabouts for Maryland, too?; Best cities for singles are walkable. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Think outside the car
The right way to talk about performance parking; Sign for streetcars; Do parking spaces vote in Gaithersburg?; Tough to shake the cell phone habit; Reduce crash injuries, unsafe driving, or just driving?; The Idaho Stop is safer; Hawthorne’s sidewalk “war”; And…. Keep reading…
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Sidewalks belong everywhere, even where Fenty friends live
Residents of the North Portal Estates neighborhood thought they were getting a nice, new street reconstruction, including sidewalks to keep themselves and their children safe. That is, until one politically-connected resident intervened personally with Mayor Fenty. Now, DDOT has just finished reconstructing several main streets in the neighborhood as wide roads for cars… Keep reading…
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Morning links: Back and greater than ever
I’m back; “Overgrown office park” to real city; More sidewalks coming, especially in River East; I-270 corridor residents want transit; Mixed-income areas boost civic participation; Arlington gets greener, transit opponents claim to be; Across the nation; And…. Keep reading…