Posts tagged Traffic
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Dinner links: The future of sitting, driving, biking
New BART seating strategy; Road pricing: the time is now; Look at all the traffic; Road closures and parking divide Eastern Market; German city more neighborly; Arlington needs a few good counters; Some Fairfax Connector buses raise fare to $7; Give the robot your bike. Keep reading…
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Let’s talk about enforcement
Councilmember Jim Graham is eager to create a DDOT bicycle-mounted enforcement squad. Depending on whom you ask, this squad might be designed to mainly enforce laws against cyclists, or to enforce laws against both cyclists and drivers. We need even-handed enforcement of dangerous behavior regardless of the type of vehicle. And we definitely need more enforcement. Keep reading…
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Balance the flow, shorten the leg
DDOT is moving ahead with plans to rebuild and widen the 11th Street Bridge over the Anacostia with its stimulus dollars. The project will create a new local bridge so drivers, walkers and bicyclists can cross the Anacostia without merging on and off a freeway. It will also provide space for a future streetcar. However, it will also increase cut-through traffic, enticing some drivers… Keep reading…
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Driving increases* in metro area (* actually decreases)
The Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance, a group that advocates for more freeways and wider roads as the top transportation priority throughout NoVa, sent an email summarizing the results of a recent MWCOG study. They claim that the study shows that more people drive, while fewer walk, bike and ride public transit. However, in a very long footnote, the email admits that, actually,… Keep reading…
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War on Drivers forces capture Kensington; Weiss counterattacks
This article was posted as an April Fool’s joke. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: We’re here, we’re urban
Hopefully not just like the Pentagon; Life, liberty, happiness and the ability to build sprawl?; Crosswalks aren’t temporary loading zones; Commute correlation computation; Seattle starts curbside composting; Mini links. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Get in line
Ask Catoe about NextBus or the budget: Metro General Manager John Catoe is doing a live chat at noon. You can submit questions ahead of time or during the chat. New Columbia Heights is encouraging riders to ask why Metro can’t ask NextBus to turn the beta back on. You could also ask him to consider market-rate parking at Metro stations to help close the budget gap, or other suggestions… Keep reading…
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11th Street bridges, part 3: The New York Avenue trade
In part 1, we looked at the details of the approximately $500 million project to rebuild the 11th Street bridges across the Anacostia River. Part 2 discussed the conclusions of Smart Mobility’s report, which said the project would substantially increase traffic through DC while lowering traffic on 295 and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. Keep reading…
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Doing the same thing over again and expecting different results
Last week, the Washington Post reported that a Prince William County subdivision has the longest average commute in the nation. The piece factually describes the routines of the residents as they cope with such a long commute. However, it unintentionally ends up being a scathing commentary on the suburban living arrangement. Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: someone is wrong on the Internet
More obnoxiously judgmental? Prince of Petworth discusses the curb cut-gorging townhouses on P Street between 16th and 17th, leading to a debate about curb cuts followed by “which blog commenters are more obnoxiously judgmental,” on PoP or Greater Greater Washington. Keep reading…