Posts about Maryland
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Skaters, planners discuss Silver Spring’s Woodside Park
Last Friday, five local skaters met with a designer and staff from the county Department of Parks to discuss building a temporary skate spot at Woodside Park in Downtown Silver Spring. Everyone hopes it’ll be open by this summer, but concerns remain about how other park users will interact with the facility. The proposed skate spot would be located on the north side of the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Connect the lines
RI Ave Metro to be connected; Do zig-zags work?; Crash; One step closer to Potomac Yard; Greenbelt Station stationary; Parking lease blocking the gate; People fight infill everywhere; Mode equality = catastrophe?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Real-time news
Mass. bus predictions on the phone or paper; MERV on over there; Bus changes; Cycle confidently; I can’t believe DC won’t give me something; Get off the phone in Maryland; The delicate balance of stormwater; Not the way to build a client base. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Affordable and accessible
We’re really affordable!; Every bus stop is political; PG snow debate neglects pedestrians?; Bloggers for WMATA Board?; GPS making us dumb?; Congress to dig holes, point transit systems into it?; Development dispatches. Keep reading…
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With White Flint, Montgomery gets another Bethesda
The Montgomery County Council unanimously approved the White Flint Sector Plan yesterday, authorizing a new walkable, mixed-use district like Bethesda, Rockville and Silver Spring. Today, the area of Rockville Pike from the White Flint Mall to Randolph Road is an unbroken chain of strip malls and huge parking lots centered on a Metro station. These strip malls serve many of… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Videos and lanes
Slow down!; Slow them down with road design; NYC video squad likes our lane; Lanes of enchantment; Purple subway?; JetBlue at National, Southwest too?; A light hearing. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Profiles in courage and not
A tale of three “cities”; MWAA’s bait and switch; Committee of 500% more expensive; Federal transit benefit benefits Metro; Really a 2-way path?; Police don’t want you to know; The granite nation. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: People out and about
Tourist season brings crowds; Myers blames the victim; One Texas town trying to stamp out cycling; Arguing numbers on the Gaithersbungle; Wisconsin ripe for a streetcar?; Anti angles; Preservation preserves. Keep reading…
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Will Gaithersburg stay green and chicken-friendly?
Urban chickens are an essentially free, organic, and local source of food, fertilizer, and pest control. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Big questions
What to build in Fairfax?; Metro morsels; Not elevating the debate; Women: take this cycling survey; Run WABA; Lettuce from the library; Youth using less transportation, seniors more. Keep reading…