Posts about Maryland
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Afternoon links: Contact your representatives
Ask to be heard; Transit projects create more jobs; Dog owner tax break?; Photoshopped ad deceptive or thrifty?; Train fatality in BaltCo. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Boxes and bags
Box of trash or standard contemporary?; Safeway taking another way; How are the bags?; BRAC bike lanes; Fun and games until it becomes criminal; Reading makes a comeback; Fake placard involved in NYC bomb scare. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Happy New Year
A growing city; Charles County sprawlway; The ridership is right; C for yourself; Busted!; Is that multi-state inter-agency cooperation I see?; What’s driving business?. Keep reading…
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Parking changes could fix holiday traffic on Rockville Pike
Reports of congestion near malls across the region this holiday season make it sound like the recession never even happened. They also raise questions about how we handle traffic throughout the year. Many strip malls along Rockville Pike were built in the 1950’s for local shoppers. Today, they’ve evolved into multi-story, multi-building campuses, drawing customers… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Put your hands up for Detroit
Seed money; Honey, I shrunk the city; Something to be MADD about?; Spic-and-span; The year in development; Running away from consequences. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cry me a river, build a bridge
Ch-ch-ch-ch changes; Streets are for cars, dummies; A safer city; Too old to drive?; Distracted driver kills cyclist, pays $313; One road begins, another ends. Keep reading…
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Growth policy must talk about building community, not formulas
This is a new house for sale. It has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a one-car garage, and a small but flat yard. It’s located in an established community with well-kept homes and top-rated schools that look like something out of a movie. It is affluent, but middle-class by D.C. standards, and it’s not very different from other D.C. suburbs with detached houses… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stalled and crashing, but not burning
Pie in the Skyland; ACT calls out MoCo DOT; More top ten, this time in Maryland; Steps toward TOD; A nickel and two dimes to save commuters time; Crash course. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Ending the year, beginning construction
MARC explains why not; Top ten for transit; Killed in Columbia Heights, injured in Rockville; Great Streets construction; Free speech on the Metrobus; Metro and the federal government, together forever; Tax abatements for Donatelli. Keep reading…
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Floreen shocked by tolls on project she supported
Montgomery County officials are continuing their push to reduce tolls on the Intercounty Connector and have the State of Maryland further subsidize their sprawl-inducing highway. The latest to complain is new Montgomery County Council President Nancy Floreen, who is calling the tolls “highway robbery.” But Floreen strongly supported building the road in… Keep reading…