Posts about District of Columbia
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Breakfast links: Transit tactics
Service saved?; Addicted to Koch; Landlords make the rules; Local progress, national setback; Uber strikes a deal; On the patrol; Ancient cities; And…. Keep reading…
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DC like Amsterdam? We can only hope
According to yesterday’s Express, DC is starting to look a lot like Amsterdam, and not just because of marijuana. That’s fantastic if true. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Smoke pot in the snow
Marijuana is legal; Confusion; Necessary bike lanes; Break up with Bikeshare?; A new kind of bus; Cold never bothered them anyway; Girls, become transportation engineers!; Too little housing; And…. Keep reading…
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2.5 minutes of extra walking is not nothing
This week’s Walkblock of the Week highlighted the closed sidewalk at Connecticut and Yuma, NW. To get to the Franklin Montessori School from the Van Ness Metro, people have to walk past the school, to Albemarle Stret, and double back. Is this a big deal? Keep reading…
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For one group of kids from Anacostia, a dream deferred is turning into reality
In 1988, a DC philanthropist promised a group of low-income 7th-graders in the Anacostia neighborhood that he would pay for their college educations. What’s happened to the kids since then shows that the presence of a caring adult can alter a child’s life trajectory. A thought-provoking new documentary called Southeast 67 will be screened at the DC Independent… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Montgomery for transit
No service cuts; Purple please; Legalization looms; Aiports less uber; Ped death leads to charges; Build for safety; Signs that work; See sprawl run; Jobs back downtown; And…. Keep reading…
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I can take the bus from my neighborhood to just about anywhere in DC
I’d love for more of my neighbors to consider riding the bus, so I made a spider map to show just how far we can go on all the routes that run through where we live. It turns out that on the bus, we can go from LeDroit Park to nearly every other part of DC. Keep reading…
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Sidewalk snow shoveling hall of shame: “DC government is the worst offender” (and Arlington too)
After a warm Sunday, many buildings and property owners were able to clear their sidewalks, as the law requires. But some did not. We asked you to submit your photos of snow clearing scofflaws or, as reader Jasper Nijdam dubbed them, “snoflaws.” Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cash crunch in Maryland
A transportation guy; Purple money; Burlesque show in Chinatown?; On the waterfront; The College Park try; Towers in a park; Frozen; Not enough bikeways; Capitol Hill grinch; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Even longer waits
Purple Line delayed; More smoke; Streetcar burns; CSX fireworks; HOT doesn’t stop slugging; Housing navigators help homeless; How much vacant land is there?; Fragmented governments; Taller with less parking in New York?; A bike tunnel of snow. Keep reading…