Posts tagged Wisconsin Avenue
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Don’t expect green lights all the time
You’re driving along in downtown DC. You get a green light and start moving, but just as you get to the next corner the light turns red. It’s frustrating! But it’s no conspiracy. There could be reasons this happens, even besides trying to help pedestrians and cyclists. Adam Tuss’s latest NBC TV news segment brings the shocking revelation that drivers… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not working?
Little movement in test scores; Hampton doesn’t need roads; Developer sues over empty IZ units; Recriminations over red tops; Free parking fight, 1955 on the Ellipse; From Russia with civic ambivalence; Not so sudden developments; Work done on Wisconsin; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Share the load
Path will be too narrow; Lanier talks tickets; Initiatives face confusion; Another taxi app; Windy City wants safer walking; Elevated bike highways: good idea?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Challenges
No smoking; No challenge to Cafritz; Cracks in the Center; Romney would cut rail; The oaks are just too lofty; Trail tidbits; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the brink
CMs call for Gray resignation; Keep it simple; Number of cracks grow; Sidewalk or trees; DCU inches toward stadium; Wheaton Costco ban his snag; BRT creep in California; And…. Keep reading…
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Build streetcars where growth will cover the cost
Where should DC build its next streetcars after the H Street and Anacostia lines under construction today? That should depend on which neighborhoods want to help make them succeed. The streetcar, ultimately, is an economic development tool with transportation benefits, rather than strictly a mobility tool. A streetcar makes new development more desirable and increases… Keep reading…
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Parking-free, mixed-use building is right for Tenleytown
Douglas Development wants to rebuild Tenleytown’s long-vacant Babe’s Billiards into a mixed-use development with 60 residential units and ground floor retail space. Perhaps most significantly, Douglas wants to build no parking at all on the site. The once-popular neighborhood nightspot has been shuttered for several years, despite its location just a few… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Challenges
MoCo big box bill unconstitutional?; “Science City” really just JHU profit city?; Safeway could block Skyland Walmart; Georgetown ok with Glover Park streetscape; Can RFK parking lots become ball fields?; Preservationists should be “picky”; Congress wants bike-ped shrunk in TIGER. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting what you don’t want
Friendship Heights gets power, not residents; Congo gets a protest over front yard; Issa giveth and taketh away for DC; Gray supports globe on freeway idea; Deal makes Silver Line to Dulles likely; Windshield perspective gets creative; Bad trail; Keeping up on corruption; And…. Keep reading…
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Streetcar benefits outweigh possible road obstructions
A major fire in Tenleytown closed part of Wisconsin Avenue last week, prompting a resident to argue on the neighborhood listserv that streetcars are inferior to buses, because buses can detour. In many ways the benefits of streetcars trump the potential for this sort of delay. Running a streetcar on dedicated tracks can create new opportunities for economic development that… Keep reading…