Posts about Maryland
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Breakfast links: Region of laws
Pay-as-you-throw in Frederick?; Ways to avoid paying five cents; Get a shorter vehicle or park it off the street; Faregates to accept credit cards?; Teens not in a rush to drive; And you thought the lines were long at the DMV; And…. Keep reading…
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12 ways our region could reform bicycling laws
The percentage of people riding bikes for transportation has been rising for the better part of two decades and there is every reason to believe that trend will continue. While engineers and traffic planners work to update the infrastructure and physical elements to encourage cycling, there is more that legislators can do to help too. Some laws unnecessarily restrict safe cycling… Keep reading…
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Floreen: Rockville works fine without LOS rule
Montgomery Council Chair Nancy Floreen (at-large) argued passionately at a hearing Tuesday for relaxing the “adequate public facilities” rules that are standing in the way of walkable development at White Flint that has widespread community support. I wrote about the absurity of clinging to a traffic model that says communities cannot function without wider… Keep reading…
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Almost nobody stops at stop signs
Whenever the topic of bicycle infrastructure or changing bicycle laws comes up, some people say, “We should not do anything for cyclists until they start following laws like stopping at stop signs and lights!” Commenter oboe pointed out this video of a Philadelphia intersection along Rittenhouse Square. On a narrow one-way street, it has a stop sign on each side,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cutting, stopping and slowing
Board members talk Catoe, budget; Where to cut instead of Ride On; Stop in Burke, stop on the highway; Smart rhetoric, dumb behavior; Barnesville no longer speedsville; Sulu on the subway; Factors that drive not driving. Keep reading…
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Wheaton Costco would exacerbate poor walkability
Montgomery County economic development officials want to spend $4 million to add a Costco to the Wheaton mall. There are plenty of problems with this. For one, the County Executive is continuing their habit of making plans in secret and trying to lock them in before anyone can object. They briefed the Council in secret and are trying to get approval without a hearing. The Executive… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Clear the bottleneck
16th Street bus-bike lanes!; Beltway is 3rd worst; ever heard of rail?; Where would they grow the pot?; No VA gas tax hike; Recently-repaired MARC loco breaks down; Lots of independent stores in Georgetown; Is the car a civil rights instrument?. Keep reading…
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There’s “no secret plan,” but we can’t reveal the plan
Montgomery BRAC Coordinator Phil Alperson posted an impassioned denial about the secret Beltway widening plans Cavan discussed earlier. However, his denial actually seems to admit that there is such a plan. Alperson writes, First, let me be clear that there is no plan, secret or otherwise, to widen the Beltway or construct a ramp into the Bethesda Naval Hospital campus. However,… Keep reading…
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Beltway widening plans should not be a secret
Back in October 2009, residents found out about a secret plan to switch federal funds granted for pedestrian and transit improvements around the Medical Center Metro into funding the construction of a 4-lane automobile underpass under Rockville Pike. After receiving documents from a Freedom of Information Act request, the Action Committee for Transit has found that… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More Catoe perspectives
Make the Board more visible and elected; Clean house before resigning; A better rebate; Your environment has been canceled; RPP rates rising, not here; Angles morts; Obama gets an A- for infrastructure. Keep reading…