Posts tagged The Mall
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Breakfast links: Old news and new news
More bikes on and around trains; Screen not on the Green; Mies box or transit stop?; Few MoCo employees using car-sharing, yet; Press article uses active verb for crash!; Bus stop answers. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Save the planet
Streetlights of the future; 30-plus years behind the times: NPS of course; DC gets a B on trees; Have Obama’s first 100 days greened DC?; Energy efficiency stimulus will go to solar panels and bags; U Street hotel gets a little shorter; 5th and Mass gets a little safer; 1904 book promotes Columbia Heights; Hugs and helmets. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Zealous enforcers and budget maneuvers
Yo building is so ugly, only terrorists want to photograph it; Maryland offers more money for PG buses; MoCo may allow parking revenue to fund transit; Performance parking working in Philly; Berliner proposes more Metro stops in Bethesda; Arlington picks stimulus projects; Clarendon zoning adjusted; Park Service cracks down on pedicabs; An even greater Thomas Circle vision; Twice a day?. Keep reading…
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When you gotta go, where do you go?
We’ve all been there. You’re out and about, and then suddenly, you need a restroom. When I leave home to go on a walk or run an errand, I keep a mental map of the closest available restrooms. I usually rely on restrooms in commercial businesses, largely because it is difficult to find public restrooms in the District. Access to public restrooms is more than a matter of… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Greener except on the Green Line
Uncutting transit; No Metro after late Nats games?; Good job Cavan!; FOX supports transit yesterday; Moran introduces national bag fee; More for the Mall; Vehicle hits man, reporter ignores driver; Too aggressive; UMD deletes garages; How about zig-zags?; Fenty’s $4,000 bike and other facts; Shopping to housing in Germantown; Not what we meant, Mendo. Keep reading…
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Smithsonian picks architects, design for African-American museum
Today, the Smithsonian announced that they have selected Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup to design the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. Their design submission resembled a rectangular, mostly concrete building with a basket or crown on top. Keep reading…
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Starchitects design African-American museum
Six teams created conceptual designs for the Smithsonian’s upcoming National Museum of African-American History and Culture. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: pigging out
Where’s the food court?: One reason for the new signs on the Mall: tourists not only often don’t know what the tall obelisk is in the center, for example, but officials “often get calls from the public asking if there is a Nordstrom on the Mall.” (Post via BeyondDC) Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: parks, parkways, and parking
White House stadium? Did you know that in 1910, the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts “approved plans to build a football stadium either on the White House Ellipse or at some other spot in East Potomac Park”? That’s part of Marc Fisher’s fascinating history of the long debate over stadiums in DC. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Better commutes for all
Open data stimulates innovation: We’ve pointed out that if WMATA releases schedule data for Google Transit, not only would we then be able to use Google Transit, but software developers could use the data for who knows what creative purpose. Trainlogic used commuter rail schedules from Boston, New York (Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit), Philadelphia and Chicago… Keep reading…