Posts tagged Tysons
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Breakfast links: Big votes on money
What’s in the DC budget?; Fares hike may be approved today; Motivated seller; N Street eclipse; How you talk about it matters; And…; Up in Maryland; In the west. Keep reading…
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Three-Beltways boosters perpetuate myths about growth
When the “2030 Group” recently launched to push for “good sustainable growth,” some charged that it’s just a stalking horse for the freeway lobby and the roads they’ve been pushing unsuccessfully for decades. That charge stemmed largely from the involvement of cofounder John Tilghman “Til” Hazel, a longtime freeway… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bike to work today!
Bike to work, avoid dogs; Bye townhouses, hello parking?; On New York Avenue; More residential for Tysons; Oh great, loud grates; Know a hit-and-run driver in Frederick?; Soda tax? Probably not; MARC hits a new mark. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fighting transit, paying for roads
Streetcars on the TV; thecranks@dcwatch; Barnes Dance barn dance; Community, students won’t stop UMD anti-transit stance; Virginia can’t afford new freeways; Tysons “piecemeal” street grid?; And…. Keep reading…
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Will Tysons halfway plan bolster or doom the future city?
A few anti neighbors aside, Fairfax County leaders and advocates broadly agree with the goal of transforming our nation’s largest and most successful suburban office park district into an urban city, where most residents and workers travel in ways other than single-passenger vehicles. But nobody has done this before on such a scale, and there is less consensus on how, exactly,… Keep reading…
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With White Flint, Montgomery gets another Bethesda
The Montgomery County Council unanimously approved the White Flint Sector Plan yesterday, authorizing a new walkable, mixed-use district like Bethesda, Rockville and Silver Spring. Today, the area of Rockville Pike from the White Flint Mall to Randolph Road is an unbroken chain of strip malls and huge parking lots centered on a Metro station. These strip malls serve many of… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Profiles in courage and not
A tale of three “cities”; MWAA’s bait and switch; Committee of 500% more expensive; Federal transit benefit benefits Metro; Really a 2-way path?; Police don’t want you to know; The granite nation. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Big questions
What to build in Fairfax?; Metro morsels; Not elevating the debate; Women: take this cycling survey; Run WABA; Lettuce from the library; Youth using less transportation, seniors more. Keep reading…
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The last mile in Tysons Corner, part 4: PRT’s obstacles
Last week, Steve Offutt introduced the last mile problem in Tysons Corner. With the Metro on the way, a solution is clearly needed to get transit riders to their apartments and offices. I suggested that a system of busways could easily speed circulators around the neighborhood. Steve countered with a proposal for a Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system spanning the area. The… Keep reading…
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The last mile in Tysons Corner, part 3: PRT?
Last week, Steve introduced Tysons’ “last mile” challenge, and Matt Johnson explored a series of busways as a solution. A bolder proposal, for Personal Rapid Transit (PRT), generated considerable controversy among the GGW contributors over email. There is a range of opinions on this technology among the contributors as among planners in general and the… Keep reading…