Posts tagged Union Station
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Should Union Station’s Great Hall be less great?
Union Station’s Great Hall is one of the city’s most fantastic public spaces. It is beautiful, engaging, and lively. And somebody wants to tear a couple of giant holes in its floor. Earlier this week, Washington City Paper reported on a proposal to cut holes in the Great Hall’s floor in order to provide better access to the basement food court, and to replace… Keep reading…
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Expanded mezzanine planned for Union Station Metro
The northern entrance to the Union Station Metro is probably one of the most cramped in the system. And during peak periods it becomes very congested. The District Department of Transportation is working with WMATA to greatly expand the capacity and utility of the mezzanine. Because of the design constraints of the site, the northern mezzanine had to be shoehorned into a very… Keep reading…
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Midnight swim in the Flickr pool
Here are a few of our favorites from the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool this week: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fares and blogs
Metro fares going up, twice; Capital surcharge too; DDOT blogging; More food, drink for U; Should Arlington require shoveling?; Fenty FOIA fail; Seasons change, bloggers switch jobs; And…. Keep reading…
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Owner of H Street tunnel not so eager for streetcars
In April, DDOT presented an exciting plan to run the planned H Street streetcar through an existing tunnel under the H Street “Hopscotch” bridge. However, one obstacle still stands in the way of that vision: the current owner of the tunnel, Potomac Development Corporation. The current tunnel runs under the H Street bridge and the Amtrak tracks, and is about the width… Keep reading…
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DDOT reveals more streetcar details in Trinidad
Residents heard about the maintenance yard for the H Street NE streetcar line, how it will tie in to Union Station, and how the streetcars will be powered at Tuesday’s meeting hosted by DDOT in Ward 5’s Trinidad community. DDOT’s Scott Kubly presented illustrations to the packed gymnasium at Wheatley Education Campus showing how the western end of the H Street… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bad people
Kornheiser disciple?; Not top employee; Not really “mixed use”; Traffic tests like a hydra; No I-80 tolls, no money; MD cuts repair, rejects transit “poison pill”; No cuts, more from jurisdictions, peak of the peak; Bronrott going federal. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: All in the family
Kids + buses = challenge; Dense housing is for families too; I’m on the radio, twice; New daytime parking deal in Adams Morgan; DC gets snow money, Alexandria ha’ sno money; Another tax break; MARC Area’s Really Crowded. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Remaining snow, coming storms
Rock Creek branch storage path; Speak up on the Fairfax budget; BLT or fries at White Flint?; Outer Beltway bill rises from the dead; Designs for Four Mile Run expansion; Yummy soot; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving outside the Beltway
Devil’s bill dies; Driver kills two; Sprawlwater regulations?; A denser Columbia; Even more VRE; MARC boarding now less convenient?; Surprise, we’re building. Keep reading…