Posts tagged Sprawl
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Breakfast links: Choices for unhappy drivers
One way to reduce the number of cars: People are torching their own cars in increasing numbers, in places like Capitol Hill’s “Car-B-Que Alley”. Even abandoned cars not on fire pose a nuisance, but DC’s law makes it difficult to remove them. (Post, City Paper, Infosnack) You could have driven to San Francisco: The average Washington commuter spent 60 hours in traffic last year,… Keep reading…
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Army: Alexandria move will be ok because we say so
The Post follows up with more quotes from Virginia officials and Army spokespeople about their transit-unfriendly move to western Alexandria. The Army says they want 40% of workers to carpool or take transit, but don’t justify how they will make that happen and why it won’t still be a disaster. Keep reading…
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Army chooses least transit-accessible site of three for 6,400 jobs
The Army has decided to locate 6,400 jobs at a site in western Alexandria, right off I-395 but far from Metro, reports the Post. The jobs were originally slated to move from Arlington to Fort Belvoir, but concerns about traffic led the Army to consider alternate sites. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Development outside the beltway edition
MD cuts everything but the one project they should: Facing a shortfall in gas tax revenue due to people driving less, Maryland is cutting transportation projects across the board except for the ICC, which is “protected” under its financing agreement. With people trimming their driving, the ICC is exactly what Maryland no longer needs, while the Purple Line and Corridor… Keep reading…
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What’s happening this week
The District is getting back into full swing after the quiet of August. Lots going on this week: here’s a small sampling. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Sprawl advocacy pro and con edition
Safety for their schools, not others: The Town of Chevy Chase is slowing traffic around one of its schools while, as ACT points out, advocating for a Purple Line bus alignment that would send rapid buses right past another school outside their limits. Keep reading…
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Transportation across the nation: Mistakes of the ‘70s edition
Bulb-outs in Boston? Boston’s record on livable streets and Smart Growth is decidedly mixed, with good projects surrounded by bad transportation practices. There may be hope if the ideas in this Globe article come to Boston. Via Streetsblog. Keep reading…
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PG building edge cities, neglecting Metro stations
Prince George’s County leaders are very proud that Konterra Town Center is moving forward. It’s a huge development at I-95 and the future Intercounty Connector in Laurel. It’s even bigger and just as auto-dependent as their other totally transit-inaccessible edge city, National Harbor, which, after building itself far from transit, started complaining… Keep reading…
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Yesterday’s suburbia tomorrow
Freakonomics’ latest quorum discusses everyone’s favorite topic in the era of high gas prices: the future of suburbs. After the predictable quotes from Kunstler (“The suburbs have three destinies… as materials salvage, as slums, and as ruins”) comes Freehold, NJ administrator Thomas Antus, who thinks development will make taxes spiral out… Keep reading…
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The era of big commute is over
The “end of the exurbs” trend narrative story has hit the Washington Post front page, with a very good article by Eric (”War on Drivers”) Weiss. As we well know, families just aren’t moving out to the fringe of the metropolitan area for cheap housing yet grueling commutes; “the days of building giant houses on former soybean fields on the outer… Keep reading…