Posts tagged Streetcars
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Council will debate parking meter hike Monday
On Monday, the DC Council will consider Jim Graham’s proposal to raise DC on-street parking meter fees (except in existing performance parking zones). $1/hour meters would become $1.50, and 50¢/hr to 75¢. Also, Saturday parking downtown would no longer be free. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bridging the gap
No skybridges allowed? After a Montgomery County Council committee voted to choose an option for the Silver Spring Library containing a $684,000 (and unnecessary) skybridge, Planning Board Staff discovered a 1999 policy for Silver Spring prohibiting skybridges. The Council may hold another community meeting in January to dedcide. Keep reading…
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Seattle’s South Lake Union Streetcar
During a recent trip to Seattle, I fed my transit craving by examining the city’s fledgling South Lake Union Streetcar. There is more depth to this new streetcar system than just a crass acronym… Keep reading…
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Streetcar will run through Anacostia, not to Bolling
We now know DDOT’s plans for the Anacostia Streetcar. It will travel from the maintenance facility on South Capitol Street, past Barry Farm to the Anacostia Metro, then continue through downtown Anacostia to Martin Luther King Avenue and Good Hope Road. Keep reading…
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Streetcars reduce congestion
1920s streetcar ad, Cincinnati: Keep reading…
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Street View! Finally!
Google Maps has finally launched Street View for DC. While the blog announcement features examples all from the federal portion of the city, it has almost all streets in DC, Arlington, and Alexandria, with heavy coverage east to Bowie and then to Annapolis, and south from Alexandria to Springfield and Fort Belvoir. MoCo has just the main roads. Baltimore also launched today, with… Keep reading…
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Stretching the streetcar saga
Jim Graham and Chairman Gray filed a disapproval resolution to block DDOT’s transfer of $20 million to extend, or move, the planned streetcar segment. (It’s still not entirely clear if they’re extending it or moving it.) Keep reading…
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Mark Long: changing the culture how?
When I set out to interview At-Large candidates, I was most hopeful about Mark Long. At least at the start of the campaign, his platform spoke of “getting people out of cars” (though I can’t find that on his site any more). Maybe Mark Long would be the Smart Growth candidate? Keep reading…
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Council At-Large: this Democrat’s voting for Mara
I’ve never voted for a Republican in my life. Of course, growing up in Massachusetts, then living in Northern California, New York City, and Washington DC, there aren’t so many Republicans to choose from. I’ve been a lifelong Democrat and see no way, for any federal office, that I could in good conscience support any Republican, no matter how good, since they will… Keep reading…
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DDOT moving streetcar toward actual residents
In July, Jim Graham, Tommy Wells, and others on the DC Council were asking some questions about DDOT’s planned initial segment for the Anacostia Streetcar: Why does it run to nowhere? Keep reading…