Posts tagged Tod
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Breakfast links: Defending against BRAC
Carpools key to Mark Center sanity; Bethesda in for a BRAC surprise; East Falls Church plan a go; Shuffling VA Metro seats; A cheaper underground Dulles station?; Finding out-of-District DCPS students; A long battle for vehicular manslaughter; Getting smart growth right in MD; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Tough questions
Bikesharing no simple task; How to really answer a gentrification question; Struggling with higher gas prices; Region’s homeless count grows; Restaurants raise bar higher on food trucks; Gray all for TOD; Alexandria shares Mark Center blame; AdMo gets limted-time pop-up shop; And…. Keep reading…
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Ward 7’s Walmart could be walkable and help small business
Walmart’s proposed store on East Capitol Street, adjacent to the Capitol Heights Metro station, has many residents excited for its food and other products, but others concerned about its design, which looks a lot like a school and doesn’t engage the street. This site, alone among the four Walmart proposals, is public land. The independent DC Housing Authority… Keep reading…
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Did building Metro bring growth? It depends where
This week, Metro celebrates the 35th anniversary of the opening of its first line, whose construction first began in late 1969. How effective has the system been in re-orienting development patterns? In many ways, Metro has proven to be an essential element of the region’s mobility system. Ridership, depending on who is counting and how they are doing it, ranges between 700,000… Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Kojo in McLean, Bloomingdale parking, Prince George’s development, Anacostia streetcars
A number of media events and community roundtables will be talking about big issues that shape our neighborhoods. If you live in McLean, Bloomingdale, southern Prince George’s or Anacostia, these are important opportunities to bring our issues and points of view into the conversation. Tonight, the Kojo Nnamdi Show is taping Kojo in your Community in McLean. Residents… Keep reading…
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Prince George’s TOD is big business opportunity
Prince George’s County has 15 Metro stations, the highest in a single jurisdiction outside the District. However, the county only averages approximately 230 businesses within a ½ mile of stations, while the region as a whole can support close to 1,000. These were some of the statistics Shyam Kannan of RCLCO presented at a community forum last week organized… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Shooting ourselves in the foot
APTA says scrutinize bag searches; Wealthier DC residents registering guns; The ICC’s mixed blessing; People coming into DCPS; Metro escalators are worse than they used to be; What should go at Rhode Island Avenue?; Home rule history has its ironies; Green homes bad, books good?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Virginia all-in for roads
VA senate passes McDonnell’s roads plan; Wider roads top priority in new report; More “design by fire truck”; DoD should be chipping in for transportation; Evans unfazed by Snyder lawsuit; Development team selected for New Carrollton; Pepco frustration continues, MoCo eyes other options; More research says cities safer than suburbs for kids; Remembering freedom bus rides; And…. Keep reading…
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CSG’s 2011 State of the Washington Region
Last week, you heard from both President Obama and the Republican leadership about our nation’s challenges and opportunities. Today, we at the Coalition for Smarter Growth wanted to share with you the state of our communities and our region. 2010 was a great year for planning and creating the vibrant, walkable, bikeable and transit-oriented communities that are… Keep reading…
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Tysons highlighted as global example for smart growth
An overflow crowd of well over 150 jammed a small meeting room at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board to hear a two-hour discussion the planned transformation of Tysons Corner into what, on its own, is expected to be the United States’ seventh largest downtown in 2030, eclipsing Seattle and Houston. All the speakers focused on what sets Tysons apart… Keep reading…