Posts about Maryland
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Breakfast links: Get transit-oriented
How about some Oriented Development with your Transit?; Maryland agencies to become more transit-oriented; City-dwelling car-loving writers riding transit; Inalienable right to get light poles moved?; School with safer routes; Now there were three against HOT lanes; People not so mad about ICC tolls. Keep reading…
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SHA avoids the T word in 270 reply
Back in the summer, after an outcry over the high $4 billion price tag for widening I-270, the Montgomery County Council decided to hold off on any decisions until it could get answers to a few little pesky questions. They asked the Maryland State Highway Administration to respond by early September, but SHA took until the end of last week to respond. Despite the long time frame, their… Keep reading…
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Imagine the Green Line to Fort Meade
On Monday night, Prince George’s County voted on its transportation master plan update, including a recommendation to extend the Green Line to Fort Meade. The master plan calls for creating, extending, or widening several highways throughout the county, greenfield development outside the Beltway, and some other Cold War-era fixes to Prince George’s transportation… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Saluting substitutes or subsidies
Salute to pedestrian safety; Metro schedules Maryland town halls; No substitute for the automobile?; Amtrak subsidies high? Still not clear; Laurel traffic now calmer; If you can push for parking here, you can push for it anywhere; And…. Keep reading…
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Leggett wants direct pedestrian paths except when they’d interfere with traffic
Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett’s isn’t giving up on proposals for an anti-urban skybridge connecting the Silver Spring library to a parking garage. This past weekend, Leggett unveiled concept sketches for the new library at Wayne Avenue and Fenton Street. It strongly evokes images of “an open book,” along with large glass windows said… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Anything for security
MARC will sniff your bags; Park Service reluctantly accepts trees in their bollard preserve; More on the Mall; Quick, build strip malls before we decide not to; Resident discounts for ICC tolls?; Boyds for transit; Way ahead of us in Germany. Keep reading…
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Do “we have to do something” about traffic but not transit?
Why do many of our leaders in suburban jurisdictions see new roads as necessary and inevitable, but new transit as difficult and unlikely? I’ve been meeting with elected officials in the region about transportation and development issues. One representative from Montgomery County recently expressed a general sentiment among area leaders that “we have to do… Keep reading…
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Baltimore hosts first Sunday Streets, and not in a park
Yesterday, Baltimore hosted its first Sunday Streets event. The southbound half of Roland Avenue, a divided boulevard, was closed for just over one mile through the wealthy Roland Park neighborhood. Baltimore City’s bicycle program, the Roland Park Civic League, and One Less Car had tables with information in front of the local library, and a local bike shops set up quick… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Speak for transit
Support streetcars tonight; Rail safer than driving, in numbers; More purple and green for PG; Pennsylvania Avenue L’Enfant’s way?; Tysons’ free lunch shuttles; Day off for killing a kid; From Raleigh to Sprawleigh. Keep reading…
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Gaylord agrees to restore original NH1 route
Gaylord National Hotel, the convention center operator at National Harbor, has joined HERE Local 25 in asking Metro to restore the NH1 bus to its original route along Southern Avenue. Keep reading…