Posts about Maryland
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Breakfast links: Safer and more affordable
Hit, kill, run; Cycle tracks in College Park?; Affordable housing activity; Off the job for 9 years, come back, derail a train; MV Square market unpermitted, but should be permissible?; After the flood; How are Kenyan riots like the snowpocalypse?. Keep reading…
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Bethesda weekend parking: Still free, still too crowded
Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett wants to increase parking tickets to help close the County’s $800 million budget gap. If the County is looking for parking revenues, it should also look at its overflowing weekend parking in Bethesda. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Victories for people
People allowed on all sides; Hit the road, Jack; Hey stores, check out the people walking by; Development dispatches; Plowing peeves; PRT in Morgantown; Sharing in solar. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Stand up and…
Be counted; Meet in public; Get off the road, mate; WMATA’s “TOD nerd”; Pie in the Skyland?; Size matters; Federal government to John Cook: You’re wrong. Keep reading…
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Transit activist Harry Sanders dies
Longtime Maryland transit activist Harry Sanders died on Wednesday. Sanders was a driving force behind the Purple Line campaign. He also cofounded Montgomery County’s Action Committee for Transit and helped establish its Prince George’s counterpart, Prince George’s Advocates for Community-based Transit. I didn’t have much opportunity… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hate-based policy arguments
Kornheiser for manslaughter; Big government sprawl; Intermediate offense for deadly driving; No TOD for the House; Walker is a rider; Annandale could get a “sense of place”; VDOT: Offramp or bust; No to vampire bill. Keep reading…
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Maryland, Fairfax, Alexandria take steps toward needed WMATA funding
Maryland and Fairfax County both took promising steps toward providing the needed $73.7 million in contributions to WMATA, and Alexandria officials are likely to follow, but there’s still a long way to go. First, MDOT’s proposed budget increases its WMATA contribution by $8.7 million. Under the WMATA funding formula, Maryland’s share of overall contributions… Keep reading…
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Do elevated rails inhibit sustainable, walkable urban places?
During the design process for the Silver Line, now under construction, a group of citizen activists advocated putting the Tysons Corner portion in a tunnel rather than mostly elevated, as ultimately planned. There was a vigorous debate about the merits of elevated rail as a planning tool for TOD versus a tunnel. Our existing walkable urban places with elevated Metro stations… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Semi-secret plans
Whitehurst teardown back?; Secret plan to fix Metro today; Even more bike lane details; Know any great candidates?; Gaithersbungle looms; 2 hours isn’t enough; More food for all. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Things to oppose, to support, to do
Giant billboards at Gallery Place?; Should Georgetown dream of seceding?; Support bag fees in MD; Hear Monument Wars author Savage; Alexandria dispatch: Bikes and BRAC; Visit Arlington, go to summer 2009 festival; Who you calling a gentrifier?. Keep reading…