Posts about Maryland
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Links across the nation: Transit in your location
Bicycle hero; February track work; The garden car; Your connecting flight is a train; Crown Farm back on; LA to privatize garages?; Are we getting used to doomsday?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Communication needs work
Secret? Vehicular? Both?; Fenty, Rhee approval down; Redo L’Enfant Plaza; Andrews fighting Gaithersbungle; 3-foot in Maryland; Hands-free is also distracting; How Fannie and Freddie inhibit mixed-use. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to spend federal money
$8 billion, high-speed; 9.6% of trips, 1.2% of money; Money for less free parking; Indian freeway turns town square into barrier; Challenge BikeArlington; 3-foot passing closer to passing; Urbanist Republican(s) for Planning Board. Keep reading…
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Superblocks near Metro, Part 1: Prince George’s
Sprawl development comes with many impersonal, mobility-limiting, traffic inducing accouterments. Seven lane roads, grass berms, curb cuts, enormous setbacks, corporate drive-thru fast food restaurants, strip malls… the list is long and ugly. But perhaps the most basic symptom of poorly thought-out suburban planning is in the street grid: the superblock. Superblocks… Keep reading…
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Is MoCo DOT stacking the BRAC deck for an underpass?
The Montgomery DOT is kicking off a NEPA study of the Medical Center Metro area, and at a meeting last week, officials insisted that all options are on the table, including underpasses, overpasses, elevators, pedestrian-only crossings, pedestrian and vehicle crossings, and more. The end goal is to modify the Rockville Pike/MD 355 area between NIH and Navy Med (soon to be Walter… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fight for your rights in the states
Vienna sides with pedestrians; 3 feet today in VA; Maryland’s bills; What Metro needs; How to fight the state DOT; Design the next Golden Triangle bike rack; Not so sure on Wheaton Costco; Who’d win in a fight, Montgomery or Fairfax?. Keep reading…
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Celebrate our 2nd birthday in Silver Spring on Feb. 16th
Greater Greater Washington launched in February of 2008, and on February 16th, we’ll be celebrating the end of a successful second year. Keep reading…
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Where’s Google Transit? January 2010 edition
Several people have emailed recently to ask what’s going on with Google Transit and WMATA. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More questions than answers
Should our Metro advertise?; “Human error,” but whose?; What would Jefferson say?; More walkability or the end of the world?; Is Fairfax really chicken or just a little bit?; Should MLK Ave get a Circulator?; The biggest subway ever. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transportation deaths in Montgomery
In Rockville, on the rails; In Wheaton, on the roads; VA bike legislation moving forward; Archives banning photography; WSJ pounces on small bag fee confusion; Dulles AeroTrain opens; Union Station more intermodal now with buses. Keep reading…