Posts about Maryland
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Breakfast links: More transit next week, less overall
Holiday transit; Rail ridership declined everywhere; Peter Craig, freeway fighter; Kaine’s biggest regret; Highways are socialism; Contributions drove Accokeek?; What killed the Vegas Monorail; Why not advertise to parking commuters?. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Governments and tweets
Sidewalk snow tickets coming in Alexandria; Nice job @DDOTDC; Examiner breaks word to Anacostia blogger?; Future VDOT head no transit hater; Happy holidays Zipcar; 5Q2; DC is growing, kinda fast. Keep reading…
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2010 wish list for transit
Since many transit projects have either broken ground or are in the engineering phase in the region, it is important to create long-term visions that will continue to make Greater Washington Greater. Some projects are new, while others repeat from last year’s list because they were good ideas then and are good ideas now. Build a southern entrance to Columbia… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Consequences of snow
Sidesnowpiles; Two pedestrians die; You can’t save a space; Post ignores own staff and blogs to get story wrong?; Free parking means no parking; Arlington in DC all along?; And…. Keep reading…
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2009 wish list for transit, revisited
One year ago, I posted a 2009 wish list for transit projects in the region. In 2008, we reflected on the successes and failures of the first generation of transit-oriented development and revitalization of historic walkable urban places in the region. 2008 also drove home the dangers of car-dependent development, as historicallly high gasoline prices put fiscal strain… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Spiral up, not down
Death spiral alert; Improve buses instead of creating new ones; Be Montgomery Planning Board Chair; Fairfax creates Dulles rail tax district; How to fight a project; Gun + snowballs = “inappropriate”; Let me off the plane. Keep reading…
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Park and Planning closing commuter routes at dark
We don’t close main arterial streets at night even if a road is less safe. So why do many local governments close walking paths and bicycle trails, even ones that are used as commuting routes? Reader Bianchi wrote in with a report: My S.O. and I bought a house in Historic Hyattsville this fall. He uses the Northwest Branch bike trail to get to either West Hyattsville metro… Keep reading…
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Morning links: No free pass
Hate to burst your bubble; Cranky old starchitect; Change gives trail crossing the green light; Bill says “Fauquier” to unsupportive counties; Tolls high, road cost higher; Who you callin’ “you”?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The official word
Bus changes; Bikes exist, say national standards; On streetcars; SmartBenefits postponement official; Toll vote today; Get a boost from a bike wheel; Springfield Mall still moving. Keep reading…
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Four visions of Wheaton, from new paint to tabula rasa
In 2004, Montgomery County followed up their 2001 Visual Preference Survey of Wheaton with a charrette, or design workshop, to turn residents’ suggestions into a vision for the community. The county teamed up with the National Main Street Center, Baltimore-based architecture firm Allison Platt & Associates, and staff from the Planning Department to develop four concepts… Keep reading…