Posts tagged Sprawl
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Weekend links: Streetcar head rides away
Kubly moving on; Beware the poll numbers; Boston columnist wants bikes banned; Cyclists race a plane during LA’s “Carmageddon”; Downtown offices getting pricier; Feds still building sprawl; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trouble with the law
93 days in jail for a vegetable garden; Are strip clubs good neighbors?; Black women bike, too; Scandals complicate economic development pick; Too many boards and commissions?; Two approaches to solving regional congestion; 4 stories shockingly massive; Chairs vanish where immigrants gathered; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: The American Revolution lives on
DC gains a GOP friend; Walter Reed could affect Embassy Row; States must return federal money; Challenge to the jobs mantra; Transit is a tool of economic development; Maybe our AAA isn’t the worst; Virginia ratifies bevy of laws; Australia literally paying for sprawl; And…. Keep reading…
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Experts should make technical decisions, not policy
From the WMATA governance debate to the 2030 Group’s transportation report, there’s been a recent push from business groups to convince elected officials to stay away from making decisions and instead leave the policymaking to “experts.” That’s dangerous. If you want to get cable TV, an expert cable installer knows which pieces of equipment… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Retail restriction rumble
Preserve our lack of community gathering spaces!; Not satisfied with Hill restrictions; DC divided on Gray, public involvement, & more; Not so Open; Officer stubbornly parks blocking trail; Taxi expansion may be reversed; In crime; Suburban growth is a Ponzi scheme. Keep reading…
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Surprise surprise: “experts” picked by road lobbyists put road building at top of priority list
The 2030 Group, an advocacy organization funded by some of Virginia’s longtime proponents of sprawl-inducing highway development, came out with a thoroughly unsurprising “survey” today that recommends the very same projects the organizers have pushed for years. The campaign engaged two of the region’s biggest advocates for the unpopular Outer… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Sprawl debate rages on
Sprawl lives; Sprawl report author speaks for roads; Housing is getting even more expensive; Petworth/Park View station?; Councilmember fights crime herself; It’s sink or swim in the water taxi business; Gray picks Peck to pluck out waste; Make no little plans. Keep reading…
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The sprawl lobby girds for another assault
Several times over the last 30 years, the Washington region has rejected a plan that would have gobbled decades of transportation funds to make our area much more sprawling and far less walkable, bikeable and transit-accessible. That plan was the Outer Beltway, an idea to grow the Washington region by using Houston as its model. While it’s appealing at first blush… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Rapturous applause
DC history takes to the stage; Metro repairs next weekend; Bus protects passengers; Montreal rescues Bixi; Ohio debates sprawl; They paved a park and put up a parking lot; Build bike lanes in Queens; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: You’re fired
Taxi Commisioner let go; Fired teachers maybe fired for good reason?; GOP doesn’t get location efficiency; Developer gives away cars to home buyers; Good development on 14th Street; Fairfax leaders take mode challenge; Students to test SmartTrip IDs; Struck pedestrian dies. Keep reading…