Posts tagged Sprawl
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Lunch links: Feel the power
It runs on STEEM; House not so into sharing; Loudoun cyclists get lower fines; Virginia’s 15th Beltway, 2135?; Zero texting tolerance; Barclays-Atlantic-Pacific; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Public spaces, open spaces
Retail blinders at Eastern Market; Gehry insulted to hear criticism; Save Our Memorial; Fenty signs bag bill; Right not to look at art; Kiss-and-TOD at Herndon; People still want to build houses near Cumberland?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Making and fixing mistakes
Safe but illegal routes to school; Highways becoming safer, still dangerous; Single tracking, here we come; Following in our mistakes; We’re like California, but at least we’re not like New England; Only Boston is more Luddite; And…; Bleedin’ billboard. Keep reading…
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Gaithersbungle: Planning Board staff latest to ignore better way for Gaithersburg
Planning officials are continuing their blind rush toward building cookie-cutter, sprawling, traffic-generating development patterns in and around Gaithersburg. We’ve already discussed how SHA only really considers more lanes as a solution to congestion on I-270, and the Planning Board only considered suburban office-park density for the JHU Belward Farm development. 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…
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Breakfast links: Withdrawal symptoms
Performance Diet Coke-ing; Delusional parkers; Cars and graves only; Ode to concrete; Sprawl harms our health; Post says “don’t stop”; Will Americans break the addiction?; And. Keep reading…
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Sprawl is the only option at the Planning Board
Montgomery County is barreling blindly down a path to create a huge new pocket of sprawl outside Gaithersburg. Dubbed “Science City,” the county envisions 20 million square feet of new biotechnology research and development on 900 acres near Rockville and Gaithersburg. However, as currently proposed, “Science City” is no city. The Board recently rejected… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Some other great cities do great things
Public space much better without cars; How London is greater; Who’s your Virginia governor candidate?; Fenty ignores law again, is sorry; Not so hot on Metro food; Chilling traffic on Wisconsin; New York Avenue TMP presentation short on answers. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Lies, damn lies and statistics
Bus stop 2020; Traffic counters for DOD ignore bicycles; LaHood Rebuts George Will; Think of the children; Downtown back on top; Carless households down; Transit not part of Post’s analysis; Baltimore bike map; Yeah, where are the flying cars?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Running away with it
What about those old car dealerships?; Navarro wins; Transit bait-and-switch; MARC gives the wrong information; Gas prices going up; Outdoor classrooms; What a robbery looks like. Keep reading…