Posts tagged The Mall
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Breakfast links: Consequences of distracted driving, biking
Texting not stopping; Cost of phoning while driving: $1.25M; That mean Mall; Philly cracks down on cyclists; FTA recognizes people bike to transit; Good development, too much parking?; The need to cover Tweed; Another Metro suicide. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Good reporting, bad reporting
Press on 270, Corridor Cities; Jumping on the anti-cycling press bandwagon; Congress Heights on the what?; Mall, Capital Crescent make the finals; Walking doesn’t move cars, so what’s the point?; Not a “flop”; No photos or we’ll put you on a hit list; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Anything for security
MARC will sniff your bags; Park Service reluctantly accepts trees in their bollard preserve; More on the Mall; Quick, build strip malls before we decide not to; Resident discounts for ICC tolls?; Boyds for transit; Way ahead of us in Germany. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cutting back and cutting through
Cherry blossoms without Circulation; More park, less cut-through in SF; Dulles taxis unpopular; A tale of two Safeways; Parking far more subsidized; San Jose rail light but not rapid; Everybody wants the TIGER. Keep reading…
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Mean streets: Ghosted bike
The most striking traffic safety issue this morning isn’t a fatal crash or dangerous intersection, but the removal of a ghost bike memorial to Alice Swanson, who was killed just over a year ago after being run over by a garbage truck at 20th and R streets, NW. City Paper has the most complete account of what happened to the ghost bike; it seems DPW removed it after receiving complaints… Keep reading…
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Why aren’t there buses to the memorials?
There’s no Circulator bus to the FDR Memorial. No bus to Hains Point. No Metrobus to the Jefferson Memorial or Lincoln Memorial, even though a variety of bus lines to Virginia pass right by them; the closest stops are at 14th and Independence or 22nd and Constitution, which aren’t that close. On the Mall itself, east of the Washington Monument, many buses including a DC… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links I: Bikes, parks, and parking bikes
Stop it, guys; Truck hit by cyclist, poor truck; Congressmen spend more time at the mall than the Mall; Recreation? That’s not what parks are for!; Which neighborhood will get extremely green?; 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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Vietnam Visitors Center: How do you make a building invisible?
In 2003, amid much controversy, Congress authorized a new structure on the Mall, near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: a visitors’ center to educate tourists about the Vietnam War and the meaning of the memorial. Responding to the recent proliferation of new memorials and growing pressure for even more, the same act of Congress also placed a moratorium on any further construction… Keep reading…
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