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Morning links: Benefits of transit edition
Gridlock Sam still shilling for Chevy Chase: New York’s “Gridlock Sam,” who coined the term “gridlock,” is still working for the town of Chevy Chase and pushing bad logic to stop light rail on the Purple Line. This time, he argues that light rail isn’t much better than BRT, while the buses are cheaper. But Sam neglects to mention that the BRT alignments… Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Paint ain’t, 8 debate, rails frustrate
“Paint isn’t a pedestrian safety plan”: Get There reviews the Pedestrian Master Plan and comes out pleased. Some of the best solutions are cheap, like “stop for pedestrians” signs in the middle of the street. Keep reading…
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SmartBike launches, and more bicycle coverage
Urban-cool: “The District’s urban-cool inferiority complex [is] officially over,” says the Post, because now we have a bicycle sharing program. Via City Desk. One Examiner writer manages to find a hypothetical cloud amidst all this silver lining. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Recovering from jetlag edition
Political debate mostly filled with platitudes, big surprise: Cary Silverman and Jack Evans debated last week but revealed few differences. Both instinctively oppose the reduction of parking minimums, according to reader A. If you missed it, here’s my take on the race. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: We can do better edition
Cheh comes out against Tenley library plan: NIMBYs and smart growth advocates have common ground on the LCOR development proposal for the Tenley-Friendship Library: they all hate it. A mixed-use building with housing and shops along with a library is a good idea for that high-traffic corner, but sources who know about the proposal say it’s a bad one, and Councilmember Mary… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Elected officials behaving badly edition
Don’t they have better things to do? According to DC Wire, Council Chairman Gray found Dan Tangherlini parking in his spot, so he parked in Tangherlini’s spot, and then the mayor’s office threatened to tow Gray’s car. Having a playground spat over parking spaces is unseemly enough, but when elected officials make parking space pecking orders a major perk… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: it’s breakfast time here edition
I’m in California this week, so I won’t be posting as frequently (and, due to the time change, not so early in the morning). Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Bad land use decision edition
Like lawn gnomes in the nation’s front yard: The Examiner looks at “mall sprawl”, the constant pressure from interest groups (and caving by Congress) to put more and more memorials on the Mall despite a 2003 law that said they wouldn’t do it. Newer ones aren’t just a simple statue or wall, either: they come with visitors’ centers, that explain… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: conventional wisdom can be wrong edition
Learning traffic from Proust: Wilson Quarterly discusses the legacy of Hans Monderman, the revolutionary traffic engineer who convinced the Dutch town of Drachten to remove all traffic signals and signs. Contrary to decades of standard practice, it made traffic flow better and more safely. (Also, I didn’t know that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a traffic engineer.)… Keep reading…
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Lunch links: National trends edition
Trend story of the moment: whites moving into the city: First it was “gas prices so high some people are giving up driving,” followed by “record transit ridership in [insert city here].” Now, a pair of articles in The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic may represent the next media narrative. Both discuss the trend of whites moving to the city and its effects,… Keep reading…