Posts about Community
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Breakfast links: Underpaid
Capital Bikeshare underpays workers?; Food trucks protest; Veterans crash; Reverse commute trips rise; Metro redesign gets a redesign; Who’s the most anti-growth?; Vandalism plagues bus stops; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The campaigns heat up
Bowser running on development; New Virginia poll; Bikeshare is “awesome”; Orange Line to Wiehle?; On the Maryland rails; Offices getting denser; Credit cards coming to taxis; Woman falls onto tracks; Virginia private tolls unconstitutional?; And…. Keep reading…
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Sidewalks, streets, tracks and boats in the Flickr pool
Here are our favorite new images from the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool, showcasing the best and worst of the Washington region. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New York analogues
Rediscover Columbus Circle; Settle down about bikeshare, NYC; Adams Morgan = West Village?; KIPP will have to wait for Randall; Board sanctions Orange; Take a look; Is your commute an idyll?; Flood-control parkway; And…. Keep reading…
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Metro listens to feedback, tweaks future map
When the Silver Line opens later this year, the Metro map will have to fit in a silver stripe where the Orange and Blue Lines traverse DC. Metro has a two new drafts of the new map and wants to hear from riders. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving to the future
Streetcars alight in DC; “Young urbanists” electorally growing; Rooftop bars mapped; Height study starts with meetings; DC-CANnot give you Internet; Government goings-on; Freeloading ends in Ocean City; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where the headquarters go
Police HQ swap for DCU stadium?; Post wants “cheap” HQ, handouts; The housing action is in cities; Single unemployed people don’t buy homes; McAuliffe backs ethics panel; Metro morsels; Bike bits; Development dollops; Forethought for Foxx. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Opposition
Rs say no to Outer Beltway; WaWa drama; DC cabs: red with gray stripe; Landmark Mall forgets peds, bikes; Less foolish primary date; Who’s running; Harder to FOIA Virginia; And…. Keep reading…
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Election results maps show persistent geographic divide
Keith Ivey has created an interactive map of DC’s April 23 special election results. The maps seem to back up the notion that there are ongoing geographic and racial divisions in our politics, though except for east of the Anacostia (which is a big “except”), Elissa Silverman’s appeal was far broader, geographically, than citywide candidates in other… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Meet the new boss
Foxx for DOT; A gift to ethics; Franklin School draws interest; Will autonomy survive?; Concrete blame game; Last stop for gas; Transportation trends; Plant a tree. Keep reading…