Posts tagged Urban Renewal
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Breakfast links: Smoke blocks the truth
Blame the fire department; Regional service; Can downtown Bethesda grow?; Franklin School plan stalled; Boom or bust?; How to update our infrastructure; Growth in the suburbs; The longest walk commute; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Under construction
Close I-395?; Anacostia’s future; A Giant shortcut; Bike lanes in Crystal City; Border crossing; Looser liquor laws; Fixing the Highway Trust Fund; And…. Keep reading…
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This federal building is missing a corner. Here’s why
The Department of Agriculture South Building an archetypal federal building: big, beige, and boxy. But it’s missing a corner. Why? The L’Enfant Plan and a street that no longer exists. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ain’t easy being transit
Why a bus lane is politically hard; Mini Metro shows real pressures; The waterfront will change; Rejected again; They still like Gehry’s Ike; Big concrete hot potato; Successful cities are growing less; New bike mecca: Pittsburgh; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Time for some traffic problems
Stuck in a jam; A world without farecards; Bikeshare riders brave the cold; Waiting for renewal; Fairfax forgoes McMansions for paintball; The war on rats; Foreign investment drives DC real estate; Metro’s track work schedule; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The constant skyline
No height increases in L’Enfant City; Inner Harbor improvements; New development may fund housing; Microsoft is coming to St. Elizabeths; Further details emerge on FBI site; Opposition threatens King Street bike lanes; The future of retailing; HOT lanes’s first birthday; And…. Keep reading…
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When the cars had won the war
Martin Austermuhle made a whimsical point on Twitter about this picture, a 1992 historical photograph DCist featured to celebrate the convention center’s 10th birthday: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting going
Live social on late Metro; Metrobus gets more efficient; Metro wants help planning for the future; DC gets whiter and moves downtown; DC fails elderly, disabled?; Pepco gets rate increase; Louisville plans to build more urban highways; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Delayed service
More streetcars, maybe late; Can you hear me now?; Golf course to buildings?; The man who’d fix Southwest; Safer than that; @Bikeshare gets 5 stars; NY (heart) biking; And…. Keep reading…
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Holiday links: Memorial
It’s never too early; Uber legal; Stay away from Wegmans; What DC was like in 1940; No trouble with the maples; How and why of opposition; And…. Keep reading…