Posts about Maryland
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What’ll surround Silver Spring’s transit center?
Silver Spring’s Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center will be completed by 2011, but creating a vibrant urban center depends on the planned development surrounding it. The transit center will bring buses, commuter trains, Metro and the eventual Purple Line together for the first time in what’s already the second-largest transportation hub in Maryland. Around it,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Changing before our eyes
Two approaches to downtown; Two more crashes, two fewer people; Pedestrians? We’ll take a quick look when we widen; Don’t forget education; Turbo building. Keep reading…
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LifeSci Village would give eastern Montgomery a downtown
Next door to FDA’s new campus, LifeSci Village would bring the good jobs and upscale retail eastern Montgomery residents have demanded for years, but a lack of political momentum will keep it from becoming a reality anytime soon. The Gudelsky family is well-known for their philanthropy, but they were also one of the region’s most prominent developers. In the conference… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Give thanks you survived
Really mean holiday streets; Traffic cameras blah blah blah; We’re paying for their cars; Youth pushed into train; ‘Round about Loudoun; Jim Lehrer, transit aficionado. Keep reading…
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Bonus links: Parking extravaganza
$80,000 a space for another DC USA?; Tenleytown Safeway too suburban; Three parking bills, one hearing; Free holiday meters?; Free transit for some Chicago shoppers; Potomac Yard station still just out of reach; A Green City but without green transportation. Keep reading…
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Downtown Silver Spring needs a large skatepark
Many kids who skate on and get chased from Downtown Silver Spring’s plazas and pocket parks have no memory of East of Maui, the skatepark on Ellsworth Drive that operated temporarily in the 1990’s before giving way to the Silver Plaza redevelopment. It was a pretty big place, attracting people from across the region. And even though it’s been gone for ten years,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Sharing is caring
DC close to deal with Bixi?; Rent out your car (in Baltimore); Half of highway costs are subsidized; Taxi discrimination confirmed; The secret, deadly crosswalk; Broke? Add more lanes anyway!; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Few consequences
Shot a cyclist? It’s OK; Let there be light, and airport buses; Desire lines of Brasilia; Be on the Planning Board; Tweet your space; Everybody wants biotech. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Parking and/or central Maryland
Check the foundation first please; Champlain Street lane open; Floating houses, underground parking; Don’t take a taxi to work; “Dundalk pays, Potomac plays”; Street-facing, and retail, but not street-facing retail; Dorsey-Oriented Tunnel. Keep reading…