Posts tagged The Mall
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Breakfast links: Transportation and civil rights
Transportation can create opportunity; Gray speaks on DC statehood; DC from 1963 to 2013; More traffic cameras in DC; Fairfax County searches for Silver Line funding; Olympics could spur transit development; ANC supports 5333 Connecticut changes; Tiber Creek not an ordinary stream; UberX not illegal for long?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Readiness
EMTs in short supply; Just-in-time memorial fix; Bike lane paving scheduled; Howard Co. goes electric; Think tank goes IMBY; Eastern Shore bridge to be replaced; Bus driver stabbed; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Goooooal?
More stadium details emerge; Is it a bad deal?; PG eyes two hospital sites; What’s in WMATA’s union contract; Ban ANCs or fix them?; Bridge path will improve; Commuters want road and rail repairs; Car2Go expands in DC; Does it look safe?; And…. Keep reading…
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In 1892, DC had railroads and windy paths on the Mall
Tom at Ghosts of DC posted an 1892 map of the L’Enfant City. Union Station did not yet exist, and instead, railroads from the south carried trains right to a terminal where the National Gallery is today. Streetcars plied most major thoroughfares. Keep reading…
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Is the National Mall the place for risk-taking architecture?
DC’s art community was chagrined to see the Hirshhorn cancel plans to build an inflatable “bubble” to house seasonal events. This is a good time to ask, “what now?” The bubble would have been a striking sculptural statement, but is that what the National Mall should be? Should the Mall be a singular urban space, defined by consistent neoclassical… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Regulatory choices
Large retailers may have to pay more; Food truck rules going down; NPS stepping back on Penn; Utility problems; Compare bikeshare geographically; Companies quiet on transit nationally; And …. Keep reading…
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1941 DC plan shows east Mall, no I-395
DC’s 1941 master plan is available through the Library of Congress. Published just months before Pearl Harbor, the plan is a fascinating look at the future pre-war planners envisioned. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The campaigns heat up
Bowser running on development; New Virginia poll; Bikeshare is “awesome”; Orange Line to Wiehle?; On the Maryland rails; Offices getting denser; Credit cards coming to taxis; Woman falls onto tracks; Virginia private tolls unconstitutional?; And…. Keep reading…
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Circulator will go to Mall, bus priority gets funding
The DC Circulator bus will add service to the National Mall by 2015, and Mayor Gray has added funding to the budget to improve bus service elsewhere in the city, Mayor Gray and Councilmember Mary Cheh just announced in a press release. The Circulator service would not be the same as the old loop around Constitution and Independence Avenues, which DC discontinued in 2011. That line… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Vote
Vote today. Why not now?; Marijuana arrests target blacks; United stadium looking likely; Trees are ultimately obstacles; Swing span got stuck; Met Branch Trail unstuck; Count people and bikes in Alexandria; We’re renting more, driving less; And…. Keep reading…