Posts tagged Southwest Waterfront
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A 4th option for M Street SE/SW
M Street SE/SW is not a very good street. It’s has more car lanes than it needs, and it isn’t hospitable to bikes and pedestrians. Unfortunately, the options in a study by DDOT and CH2M Hill unnecessarily force a choice between bikes and transit. Cyclists need a decent crosstown route, or maybe two. Transit vehicles should stay on M Street, to serve the densest part… Keep reading…
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Bikes or streetcars on M Street SE/SW?
Should M Street SE/SW have a cycle track? Or a dedicated streetcar and bus lane? Or neither? A transportation study says we’ll have to choose. Advocates for every mode of travel would like to have space on M Street. It’s currently the only street that goes east-west all the way through the Southwest Waterfront and Near Southeast neighborhoods. Bicyclists would like… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where the trail’s at
Finish the Met Branch; Bike progress in Herndon; Light rail plans in Maryland; Rejection defended; On the waterfront; GOP on transportation; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Delayed service
More streetcars, maybe late; Can you hear me now?; Golf course to buildings?; The man who’d fix Southwest; Safer than that; @Bikeshare gets 5 stars; NY (heart) biking; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Down, not out
Gray blasts critics; BRT decades away?; Height limit rising?; Thompson leaves his firm; New York goes further up; Council approves Walter Reed plan; Making a new Southwest; And…. Keep reading…
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MPD gets law correct in minor SUV-bike collision
DC’s police have gotten some deserved criticism for misunderstanding bike laws and misapplying them in a few recent crashes, but that’s not always the case. Some officers get it just right. Reader Corey wrote in: My friend Abe and I went for a ride yesterday. We were in the bike lane on 4th St SW between M and I, Abe in front and me trailing, when a guy in a crossover SUV tries… Keep reading…
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Was your neighborhood “obsolete” in 1950?
The National Capital Park and Planning Commission, forerunner to today’s NCPC, declared most of Shaw, Mount Vernon Square and Triangle, Capitol Hill, Southwest, Buena Vista and other neighborhoods “obsolete” in 1950. Yes, amazingly, they really used that term. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What a compromise
Verdict: Transpo bill pretty terrible; Bill adds oversight for Metro; What’s going on in Loudoun?; Mendo for less density; What a house costs; Relief for water; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Seat filler
Ethics just got real; Silver Line in peril; Higher prices, not Sundays; Sidewalk cafes grow in number, not size; Some parts of Ward 5 vote; MDOT loses head; GeekEasy wasn’t so easy; Parks from parking lots; The road to ruin; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Back to normal
Nats Park neighborhood on the upswing; Chaos to blame?; Showdown at the border; Urban renewal now old; Privatization a mistake?; Fast becomes slow; Density good for revenue. Keep reading…