Posts tagged Sprawl
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Breakfast links: Location, location, location
Find some ped safety projects, quick; The cupcake shop doesn’t own the sidewalk; Sustainable federal sites a little pricier; Incentives to move CaBis where needed?; Wisconsin Giant about to start; Got $648 million? Want a building?; Orange lied about gay marriage opposition?; Bus driver charged in crash; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting what you want
McDonnell gets his WMATA seat; DC readies for shutdown; Dulles station criticism takes off; Security can’t help us; Rental vacancies low in DC; Cities growing out and up; Denver kills diagonal crossings; And…. Keep reading…
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Will the Silver Line produce sprawl like highways do?
Here in the Washington, DC area, our Metro system is expanding with the Silver Line. It’s always great to see transit flourishing, and it will be nice to be able to take the Metro all the way to Dulles without switching to the bus. But does transit expansion give the official thumbs-up to people moving farther and farther outside the urban core? The Silver Line will go all the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Symbols of sprawl
Walmart reveals suburban site plan; ICC not (yet) causing sprawl; Kwame Brown insisted on “fully loaded” SUV; Get hit in PW, get a ticket; VA legislature has no time to hear from you; T is for trouble; Conservative columnist supports rail spending. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Fascinating juxtapositions
Diffrent Democrats’ attitudes on bike lanes; Different councils’ reaction to Walmart; Urbanist-economic bloggers discuss tea party article; Refute traffic engineers, get investigated?; Roundabout works, residents admit; New Hampshire could limit student vote; ICC to Georgia opening soon. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The cost of roads
Virginia borrow-for-roads bill advances; Maryland may increase tolls; Northern Virginia grows quickly; How did the candidates do?; Adams Morgan streetscape project starts soon; Metro stations, long ago; Convention Center hotel construction closes sidewalk; Social Security chooses suburban location for new center; And…. Keep reading…
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Virginians: Ask your reps to oppose bad highway bills
Tonight, the Virginia Assembly’s transportation subcommittee will discuss some bad bills. If you live in Virginia, please email the members of the subcommittee to ask them to oppose HB1998, 1999 and 2016. This is especially important if you live in Herndon and Sterling (Tom Rust’s district), or western Loudoun or Clarke Counties (Joe May’s district),… Keep reading…
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Congestion report pushes sprawl through flawed analysis
The Texas Transportation Institute today released the final version of their report on congestion, which ranks the DC area tied for first with Chicago in hours wasted in traffic. Unfortunately, the report’s methodology completely misleads as to the seriousness of traffic, and TTI is pushing the wrong policy solutions. The TTI report narrowly looks at only one factor:… Keep reading…
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Will smart growth or sprawl win in 2011?
In our last post, we talked about the top 5 smart growth victories of 2010. More and more people are looking for vibrant, mixed-use neighborhoods where walking, biking, and transit are real options. In the year ahead, will our leaders maintain the momentum for smart growth? Or will they make decisions that mean a return to sprawling development, more traffic, higher energy use… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Irrational conduct on roads
Ur doing it wrong, traffic engineers; Bikes should defer to irrational drivers; BART has farecard cheating problem; How walkable is your VA or MD city?; Why is urbanism liberal?; Revisiting the flawed Urban Mobility Report; Bus driver recovers ghost bike. Keep reading…