Posts tagged Takoma Park
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On the calendar: Walk, bike, park, and paddle
DC’s traditionally quiet summer is over. There are lots of events coming up this weekend and across the next few weeks. September is always a particularly big month in transportation, as Park(ing) Day and Car-Free Day both show up just days apart, sandwiching Walking(&Biking) Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ouch
Charter driver hits Metrobus; Hello? Police?; The new new corridor; “Transportation” equals “roads” to AASHTO; Preston Bryant to chair NCPC; Making the east coast look bad; Hunting for better bicycling; A whale of a cake. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Round and round the debate goes
Reengineer the city around cars, or…; Rounder, safer, better; Cheap gas = obesity; Blumenauer pushing green commuting incentives; Too expensive to serve the poor; Co-op living, corporation tax structure; Stop giving money to gas guzzling states. Keep reading…
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Almost lunch links: the District’s Republicans
Please do sully her legacy, Mr. Graham: Carol Schwartz is hurt that Jim Graham would propose ending the free Saturday parking she implemented years ago. “Graham says he had no intention of sullying Schwartz’s legacy with his revenue-positive moves,” writes Loose Lips. Graham’s plan is a good idea, and the faster we abandon Schwartz’s knee-jerk,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Scratching poison ivy in Maryland
ICC’s eviler cousin: Have you ever heard of the CCC? That’s another freeway Maryland is busy building in Charles County to destroy the natural beauty of its southern region. Imagine, DC writes, “building highways to alleviate traffic is like scratching poison Ivy to get rid of the irritation.” Keep reading…
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Takoma Park considering boulevard for New Hampshire Ave
Just Up the Pike reports that Takoma Park might reduce the number of lanes on New Hampshire Avenue to create a more walkable boulevard. This recommendation came from a charrette and study commissioned by the Council. Keep reading…
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Takoma: some space is green, garage will be optional
Yesterday, I wrote about the Takoma development proposal, and criticized the characterization of it as replacing “green space.” Commenter DC_Chica pointed out that some of the space is in fact green; from the satellite view, it looks like it’s about half. But much of that will remain green, and become a more usable green space. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Against stupidity edition
Still stuck in the 1960s: The Takoma Park City Council voted to keep spending city resources fighting a plan by WMATA and EYA to turn the big parking lot and dead space around the Takoma Metro into townhouses and a “village green.” They’re right that the townhouses have too much parking—two spaces per house, in many cases—but wrong about “green… Keep reading…
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Open space versus parks
And Now, Anacostia rebuts Marc Fisher’s criticism of a soccer stadium at Poplar Point. ANA and my commenters make several points, including that the money would be for infrastructure like roads rather than for the stadium itself (unlike with the ballpark), or that Fisher simply prefers baseball to soccer. Ryan Avent, though, is still skeptical. Keep reading…
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Preservation versus taxidermy in Takoma Park
On the post about dwelling density, Alex B. writes, Keep reading…