Posts tagged Tod
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Breakfast links: Build it in Ward 8
Anacostia’s future, too short?; St. E’s triggers TOD; A pedestrian bridge across the Anacostia?; HOT lanes will lose promised transit; Gray donations violate laws; Beware the zoning Death Eaters; Road rage leads to labor (the obstetric kind); Boston neighborhoods 3 different ways; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Changing the landscape
“Shallow” look at gentrification?; Freemasons pushed out, too; Purple Line will reshape communities; Carma-nothing; Be careful, pedestrians AND drivers; Congestion relief for BRAC?; Learn how to deal with a crash; And in PG…; And in DC…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Keep us safe
Police brutally tase pedicab driver; More crime on the MBT; Should trains carry chemicals through urban centers?; More tweeting @metroopensdoors; Homeless to build homeless housing; Might TIGER support TOD?; No enforcement leads to parking anarchy; And…. Keep reading…
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See you Sunday in Anacostia, 3 weeks at Clybourne Park
This Sunday is GGW’s tour of the Anacostia Museum, and there’s less than 3 weeks left until our happy hour and watching of Clybourne Park. The Anacostia museum trip starts at noon with a brown bag lunch. At 1, we’ll tour the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum, then see the Anacostia Art Gallery at 3. It’s all free; RSVP here. You can reach… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Teeming with Teeters
Teeter to North Old Town; Yards getting retail; Crossroads at a crossroads?; One way to get a road project done; Policies impact pregnant, breastfeeding first responders; 12 arrested for voting rights; What a creative name; 2 competing reauthorizations coming; And…. Keep reading…
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As urban center, New Carrollton faces uphill battle
Since 1978, the rail station at New Carrollton has been a transportation hub of increasing importance. For Prince George’s County, it’s the transit hub, hosting some 25 local bus routes, inter-city buses, Amtrak and MARC trains, and the Orange Line. Sometime early in the next decade, it will also be home to the Purple Line. But despite these advantages, the area… Keep reading…
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Increasing heights is not a simple proposition in Ward 7
Ward 7 is one part of Washington where the federal Height Act is not the main limit on the ability to add density to the urban fabric. More relevant constraints are the community’s desire to preserve their neighborhoods’ qualities and the lack of land suitable for high-density development. The Height Act bases maximum heights on the widths of adjacent streets, to… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Speed can be scary
Mt. Vernon Trail not friendly to kids; Speed brings skeletons; This week in hipsterdom; More TOD for PG; More autonomy, more meddling?; Bostonians pinpoint the bus; Midtown Manhattan adds pop-up cafes; Philly reduces sewer overflows; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: You’re fired
Taxi Commisioner let go; Fired teachers maybe fired for good reason?; GOP doesn’t get location efficiency; Developer gives away cars to home buyers; Good development on 14th Street; Fairfax leaders take mode challenge; Students to test SmartTrip IDs; Struck pedestrian dies. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s historic?
Taller can still be historic; Not historic enough, says HPO; Arlington GOP opposes CaBi; Some Maryland officials support TOD only in theory; Orange plays race card in final weekend; Paying drivers to avoid traffic; DC USA gets more stores; Bus stop proximity by income; And…. Keep reading…