Posts tagged Trees
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Breakfast links: Good news for our streets
DDOT plans contraflow lane on 15th: After numerous public meetings and much listening, DDOT has decided to implement “Alternative 5” on 15th Street between Massachusetts and New Hampshire Avenues. (WashCycle) This alternative adds a standard northbound bicycle lane and a southbound contraflow lane between the parked cars and the sidewalk. Here’s… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: development delays and bodily wastes
Staying retired, for now: Development at the Armed Forces Retirement Home is now on hold thanks to the bad economy. (Post via Bloomingdale, For Now) Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: hardball negotiations
PG United? DC United’s owner has announced his intention to move the team to Prince George’s County, though he has no firm deal yet. Owner Victor McFarlane wanted DC to pay 75% of the cost of the new stadium, the Post writes, potentially costing DC up to $225 million in public money. McFarlane also offered to “let” DC use some of the tax revenue from ticket and… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Barbaras behaving badly, and other Capitol drama
Bond(age) and Crap(o): Senator Christopher Bond (R-MO) plans to introduce two more amendments to strip transit funding from the stimulus and give it to highways. One would eliminate the high-speed rail corridor program entirely. The other, cosponsored by Senators Boxer (yes, Boxer again), Baucus, Cochran, Voinovich, Bayh, Brownback and Crapo, would cut all the money in the “supplementary… Keep reading…
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An even better Brookland
Take the Metro to U Street, Clarendon, or Bethesda, and you find yourself in the middle of a lively neighborhood. Public plazas, shops and housing fill the surrounding blocks. There’s a feeling of place. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stretch your mind
Do cities hurt your brain? The Boston Globe writes that “Just being in an urban environment, [reserachers] have found, impairs our basic mental processes. … While it’s long been recognized that city life is exhausting — that’s why Picasso left Paris — this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically… Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: around and around in circles
Phew: WMATA reached a deal with the bank trying to shake it down for millions. But it’s not home free yet. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: death and life of metropolitan America
Obama serious on cities: The President-elect will create an Office of Urban Policy, to “better coordinate federal efforts to help America’s cities.” Via Matt Yglesias. Keep reading…
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Capitol Hill residents weigh in on Town Square
The Capitol Hill Town Square project held a Community Wide Input meeting on the evening of October 1st. The name might be a misnomer since it consisted of nearly two hours of presentation and about a half hour of “input”, but that’s what they called it. The “input” included a strong dose of close-mindedness from some community activists opposed to… Keep reading…
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MoCoCo agrees with Planning Board on Road Code
The Montgomery County Council thinks the Planning Board—and the GGW community—are right about the flaws in the Road Code. Six of them sent a letter to the MoCo DOT concurring with the Planning Board’s objections. From the letter: Keep reading…