Posts tagged Trinidad
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Lost Washington: Trinidad Car Barn
The Trinidad car barn at 15th and H Streets, NE, was once the last remaining structure in the city to have once housed a cable car power plant. According to a 1970 Washington Post article, the mechanism — which was gone long before the building was demolished in 1971 — consisted of a stationary steam engine that continuously propelled a steel cable beneath the streets… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ultra news
Ultra power for streetcars?; Gabe speaks; Historic easements preserved; I’m a minority; MPD agrees with Capital City complaint; Developers want out of ag reserve requirements; Would huge underground garages reduce traffic?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Montgomery County follies
Pushback on the Gaithersbungle; Examiner bores into Medical Center tunnel; Leggett: Walkable places bad if they interfere with driving; Faster than driving; What women want (in bike infrastructure); Bloody Monday for pedestrians. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Highway robbery
MPD would rather white people didn’t file police reports in Trinidad?; Stop the Sprawlway; Moran: Widen 14th Street; Developers not interested in Purple Line, except those that are; DC can complete Georgia Avenue; Not even safe on the sidewalk in Glen Burnie; Be glad you don’t live in the OC; Chicago parking deal illegal or just bad?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Economic solutions, bureaucratic problems
Sluggers not hot on HOT; Yes, pricing existing lanes would be better; Get paid to move closer to work?; Washington Gas renegs on Capital City Diner; New private roads still create “silos”; Too much work to listen?; Now vs. then’s view of now. Keep reading…
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Cooling the starburst: Engineering underway for new plaza at Benning and Bladensburg
The intersection of H Street, Benning Road, Bladensburg Road, Maryland Avenue, Florida Avenue, and 15th Streets, NE will become more hospitable to pedestrians with new crosswalks and the addition of a plaza at the northeast corner. The Rosedale Citizens’ Alliance obtained the latest sketches of the intersection, which implement the recommendations from the H Street-Benning… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Over, atop, and across the road
Not what they meant by “on Bladensburg Road”; Planners disagree on bridge; What’s excellent?; Bus-and-ride; Hotel ok, still too tall?; Air rights development to cover 395. Keep reading…
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Gateway Market plans inward-facing retail
Gateway Market is a proposed development at the corner of Florida Ave and Morse St NE, a vacant lot next to DC’s largest active food wholesale market, Florida Market. Frozen Tropics and Richard Layman object to the project. Keep reading…