Posts about District of Columbia
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Breakfast links: Show of force
Increased police presence; Displaced in Chinatown; Frager’s gets family friendly; A DC for you and me; A memorial to?; Eyes on Kawasaki; A different way on delays; Charm City demolition; Urban revival trends; Live near work, for less. Keep reading…
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DC’s first streetcar opened in 1862. Here’s what it was like.
The DC Streetcar will start carrying passengers on Saturday, but that won’t be the first time we’ve seen a streetcar’s opening day. DC’s first streetcar system opened in the middle of the Civil War after taking only six months to build. It ran horse-drawn streetcars along Pennsylvania Avenue, and was an instant hit. Keep reading…
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Housing atop Georgetown’s Safeway would have strengthened the neighborhood
Retail is struggling in upper Georgetown, and a big reason is because not all that many people live there. Safeway could have added housing when it redesigned its Wisconsin Avenue store, but says it didn’t because doing so would have delayed building. That was a lost opportunity. Keep reading…
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The Metropolitan Branch Trail is ready for a facelift
A safer, accessible, and more popular Metropolitan Branch Trail (MBT) is closer to becoming a reality now that a study on how to make that happen has wrapped up. Specific ideas range from more lights and new callboxes to a connection to Union Market. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Silver clouds and linings
Silver hurt Metro?; Silver helped Fairfax; Can you hear me now?; A second chance for Ramsey; Restaurant restrictions in Georgetown; Bi-County Parkway voted out; Unbalanced statues. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trampled by teenagers
Green line shooting; Unscheduled stop; Up in smoke; All things considered; Alley zoning; Hello Havana; Architectural fashion; Dubious honors; Pop pop-up. Keep reading…
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A bridge from Eckington to Union Market? It could happen.
In exchange for support to build retail and housing in Eckington, developer JBG has offered to fund a study of what it’d take to build a bridge that connects the Metropolitan Branch Trail and Union Market. That’d be a big step in joining Eckington and NoMa. Keep reading…
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The DC Streetcar starts service on Saturday. It took a wild ride to get here.
When DC’s H Street and Benning Road streetcar opens on February 27, it’ll run on rails that were first installed almost seven years earlier. We’ve been talking about this project since 2008, with hundreds of posts. The following is a little walk down memory lane to look at everything that’s happened. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Wizarding games
Nobody beats the wiz; Wi-fi for DC; Federal agencies fight over Metro; No answer to the crowds; Driving more; The bus is on fire; Transparent taxis; Know your domes. Keep reading…
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Here’s why the DC region has so many bus systems
There are more than 20 separate bus agencies in the Washington area. Why not run them all as part of WMATA? Some run outside WMATA’s geography, but the bigger reason is money: It costs less to run a local bus than a WMATA bus, translating to better service for less money on local lines. Keep reading…