Posts about Links
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Transportation across the nation: New York City edition
Lots of good stuff this week on Streetsblog, NYC’s analogue of GGW and an inspiration for creating this site. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Simple solutions edition
Farragut’s “invisible tunnel”: CommuterPageBlog asks why Metro can’t easily allow free out-of-system transfers between Farragut North and West, allowing people to exit at one and re-enter the other on a single fare instead of riding around to the crowded Metro Center. NYC has two of these. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Safety and civic betterment edition
Safety up as gas prices up: Traffic deaths were already down 4.2% year over year around the beginning of the year, and dropped about 20% more for March and April, reports the Post, though the drop hasn’t yet reached Maryland’s stats. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Sprawl advocacy pro and con edition
Safety for their schools, not others: The Town of Chevy Chase is slowing traffic around one of its schools while, as ACT points out, advocating for a Purple Line bus alignment that would send rapid buses right past another school outside their limits. Keep reading…
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Transportation across the nation: Mistakes of the ‘70s edition
Bulb-outs in Boston? Boston’s record on livable streets and Smart Growth is decidedly mixed, with good projects surrounded by bad transportation practices. There may be hope if the ideas in this Globe article come to Boston. Via Streetsblog. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Special interests edition
Roger Lewis on the Park and Shop: In his latest appearance on Kojo, architect Roger Lewis talks about the role of politics in historic preservation, including the loss of historic neighborhoods in Southwest in the 1960s, the Park and Shop at the Cleveland Park Metro, the MLK Library, and the closing of G Street to build the Verizon Center. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Politics in the press edition
National pols ignorant of DC politics: No surprise here: they’re DC superdelegates, but many don’t know the name of their City Council member. (I can forgive them for not knowing all the shadow Senators.) The Post popped them with a pop quiz and got many failing grades. Keep reading…
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Transportation across the nation: Hot chicks edition
“Hot chicks” the canaries in the BRT coal mine: We’ll know if Minneapolis’ BRT is a success if it draws “attractive young females,” claims one project consultant. I’d guess it’s really about the young and the female, and talking about looks generates articles and mentions on blogs but really has less to do with it. (Minneapolis… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Envision the future edition
EveryBlock launches in DC: You can now get a feed of publicly-accessible information (like crime reports, requests for service from DDOT, DPW, etc., new real estate listings, and more) around any address. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Transportation of our desire edition
Desired: A streetcar article not named Desire: A NYT article about streetcars has prompted blog posts everywhere about the topic. I’m so glad… but can we please move beyond blog posts entitled “A Desire Named Streetcar”? Keep reading…