Posts about Maryland
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Breakfast links: Making the roads safer
College Park camera upheld; Biking getting safer; Not so deluxe; Car insurance limits too low?; Whither the streetcar?; Name that memorial; First woman driver, 111 years ago; Maryland may raise gas tax; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The earth moved
Welcome to the seismic zone; What’s damaged; What’s closed; Transportation bounces back; What were you thinking?; Bikes came in handy; Tweets beat the quake; Gray aides broke laws; Get ready for Irene; Meanwhile…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unifying Union Station
Streetcar will open mid-2013; Columbus Plaza getting fixed, finally; Tweet for DC voting rights; Nowhere to put a bike at MLK; Brown would consider tax hike; Alexander faces more challengers; Is photography a constitutional right?; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Getting serious about parks
Tourmobile’s end “likely”; A tale of two parks; Numerology of bus transit; DC’s gays live closer to downtown; Maryland and counties duel on Smart Growth; Floridians run for their lives; Suburban poverty rising; The ultimate environmentally destructive highway; Capital cities unfairly reviled; And…. Keep reading…
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Zombie road rises from the dead in upcounty Montgomery
Montgomery County DOT has resurrected an expensive and environmentally destructive extension of Mid-County Highway in Gaithersburg from a dotted line on a 1960’s map. Codenamed M-83, the highway would waste scarce money from the county’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP), destroy valuable parkland and wetlands, take people’s property, and… Keep reading…
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Is disability parking necessary at sites without parking?
New buildings near transit hubs can often be built without parking. But that can leave mobility-impaired visitors and employees with poor access. A new courthouse in Rockville, built without any parking, is drawing the ire of some for not including disability parking spaces. On August 1, Montgomery County celebrated the opening of a brand new judicial center in Rockville. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bicycle’s race
Baca on biking; Contributors in the news; Size doesn’t matter for gambling; Metro stations get better for bikes and peds; Zipcar wouldn’t mind if you emailed Bellamy; Sprawl nearly slips by in southern Maryland; Georgetown’s got more competition; 10 minutes to Gainesville; And…. Keep reading…
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Can a commercial enterprise succeed if hidden from view?
Yesterday, we discussed the plan for Prince George’s County first Whole Foods store. Besides the inappropriate strip mall design, it also contains a huge “buffer” between the development and Route 1, which could fatally damage the ability for this area to be successful. Both the 2007 and 2008 versions of the project planned for a wooded buffer along Route… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Overtime, over budget, overdrive
Metro workers pulling long hours; Silver Line funding still in question; AAA still fighting for speeders; Program matches parents for carpools; What’s “just right” for porch height; MLK Memorial will open to all; Arlington marks scandal and intrigue; Satire map plots stereotypes; Could an overlay stop more churches on RI Ave?; And…. Keep reading…
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Want a Whole Foods? Add residences, or face traffic
A mixed-use development right on Route 1 in Riverdale Park turned into a giant strip mall with a Whole Foods, after residents opposed the initial plan. But now residents fear the new plan will bring in too much traffic. If residents want a more sustainable growth pattern in the area, they need to help the county step away from its history of suburban sprawl, such as by supporting walkable… Keep reading…