Posts tagged Snow
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Breakfast links: Cry me a river, build a bridge
Ch-ch-ch-ch changes; Streets are for cars, dummies; A safer city; Too old to drive?; Distracted driver kills cyclist, pays $313; One road begins, another ends. Keep reading…
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Ask GGW: How are the trails? And talk about traffic calming
Reader Simon asks, Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Governments and tweets
Sidewalk snow tickets coming in Alexandria; Nice job @DDOTDC; Examiner breaks word to Anacostia blogger?; Future VDOT head no transit hater; Happy holidays Zipcar; 5Q2; DC is growing, kinda fast. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Consequences of snow
Sidesnowpiles; Two pedestrians die; You can’t save a space; Post ignores own staff and blogs to get story wrong?; Free parking means no parking; Arlington in DC all along?; 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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Breakfast links: Spiral up, not down
Death spiral alert; Improve buses instead of creating new ones; Be Montgomery Planning Board Chair; Fairfax creates Dulles rail tax district; How to fight a project; Gun + snowballs = “inappropriate”; Let me off the plane. Keep reading…
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Were appeals against walking car-centric or just prudent?
At the height of the storm and its immediate aftermath, local officials and newscasters were urging people not to walk outside, because they were walking in the street and would get in the way of vehicles. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Digging out
Not the DC of yore; Metro back in business; CNN ascribes motives other than fun to snowballers; Heads gotta roll; Next train gadget; Bike sharing? That’s not roads, so bad!; Queen on the train. Keep reading…
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Scenes of Washington: Snowball fight!
A giant snowball fight broke out yesterday at 14th and U, and M. V. Jantzen was on hand to capture the fun. Keep reading…
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Aboveground transit ending at 1
WMATA is announcing that they will be suspending aboveground Metrorail service and all Metrobus and MetroAccess service starting at 1 pm. Metrorail trains will run on the “snow map” routes, while some non-passenger trains will run along the aboveground routes to try to prevent snow buildup. Meanwhile, I’m off to shovel my front and back steps. Keep reading…