Posts about Maryland
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Can the US make BRT work as well as in Latin America?
In the DC area, bus rapid transit is sometimes seen as the choice of people who don’t really want transit to succeed. Democrat Martin O’Malley and local environmentalists lobbied for light rail on the Purple Line, for example, while Republican Bob Ehrlich’s push for BRT was largely seen as an effort to “obfuscate, alter, study and delay”… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Motion in Maryland
Why Maryland kids don’t walk or bike; Two PG Metro board members named; Residents want station shuttered; Biddle knocks off Patterson, not Weaver or Mara; Park Police confront food trucks; National Bike Summit comes to town; DC’s AIDS progress slipping; And…. Keep reading…
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Wheaton town square should belong to the public
It looks like Wheaton’s getting a town square after all. Last week, the Gazette wrote about developer B.F. Saul and their plans to turn Parking Lot 13, located at the corner of Reedie Drive and Grandview Avenue, into a town square: A town square will feature community events, much like Ellsworth Drive in downtown Silver Spring. B.F. Saul prefers to own and program the space,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fundamental rights
ACLU will sue over bag searches; Federal cost cutting hurts regional transit; Delaware gets more train service; what about Maryland; New Anacostia library an architectural success; Who’s running in Arlington; NYC rethinking rethinking 34th Street; And…; A roar on Arora. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Safety on board
Guardian Angels upping Metro patrols; Safety issues on Metrobuses; Can the Mayor overrule HPRB?; Changing ways at Wilson Building?; CaBi posts impressive numbers; Make sure density helps all incomes; What it takes to save solar in DC; Giant globe may become giant baseball; And…. Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Biking west, retail/zoning north, buses east
There’s an important meeting about bike lanes on New Mexico Avenue tonight. Other upcoming meetings discuss retail on upper 14th Street, the Montgomery zoning rewrite, and buses east of the Anacostia River. Tonight, ANC 3D, which spans from American University to the Potomac River, will discuss several transportation and planning issues, including safety at Ward… Keep reading…
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Photo tour of the ICC
The ICC is open, and while it may have been a questionable project, it is certainly one of the largest new pieces of transportation infrastructure to be constructed in the region in recent years. With that in mind, a friend drove me from Shady Grove Metro down the new megahighway to its temporary end at Norbeck Road, where we turned around and came back. The pictures from both lengths… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not easy being green
NPS rejects BikeDC; Leggett proposing bag fee; H Street NE gets new trees; Biddle challenges signatures, some oddly; Steps to govern DC; Legislative shenanigans; Buses up for cuts; NYC wrestles with tour buses; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Thinking about tomorrow
Avoid a DC shutdown; Why not Walmart; Burke wants calmer parkway; Express buses begin on ICC; College Park considering CaBi; Complaints do not equal failure; Biddle challenges opponents’ candidacies; Gray calls for deeper SUV investigation; And…. Keep reading…
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How pedestrians “interfere with traffic”
Videographer Jay Mallin was outraged when Prince William County gave a man a ticket for “interfering with traffic” after he was hit trying to cross Route 1 in Woodbridge. He created this great video of how many of our suburban areas ignore the needs of people on foot: Keep reading…