Posts about Maryland
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Breakfast links: Tragedy of the anti-commons
The Grinch stole playtime; Green line severed; Declining ridership means cuts; Tougher penalties for phones than booze?; Franklin School RFP; Another driverless car. Keep reading…
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Excessive auto infrastructure gets attention
Fox 5 picked up the Medical Center “Secret Plan” story last night, with a short segment during the evening news. Yesterday, the Examiner’s Bill Myers covered the issue, noting that he read about the controversy here on Greater Greater Washington. Fox reporter John Henrehan reached out in the comments to interview me and also ACT’s Ben Ross:… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Suburbs aren’t all the same
Not a safe route yet; Les banlieues américaines; Farmer’s Market … to go; The obvious (finally); Arlington an oasis; Race to the bottom; Transit planning in a recession. Keep reading…
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Retirees pass up Leisure World for the real world
My favorite aunt lives in Columbia Heights. She is retired, if retirement means collecting antiques to sell and working at a bank just to meet people. She and my uncle, who is officially retired, circumnavigate the District by foot and Metro, seeing friends, running errands, and simply enjoying the city. My mother, in her work appraising short-sale houses, recently discovered how… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Montgomery County follies
Pushback on the Gaithersbungle; Examiner bores into Medical Center tunnel; Leggett: Walkable places bad if they interfere with driving; Faster than driving; What women want (in bike infrastructure); Bloody Monday for pedestrians. Keep reading…
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Medical Center “secret plan” revealed
The Action Committee for Transit has gotten a look at Montgomery County’s secret plans for the Medical Center Metro area. Maryland’s Congresspeople got a $20 million DoD grant to make it easier for workers and nearby residents to walk to and from the station, facilitating greater transit use as BRAC grows both facilities. At the last minute, however, the Montgomery… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Heroes and scofflaws
Leon Swain the hero; The ticket collectors; Bicyclist killed because he was riding in the road?; Sustainable transportation program is not sustainable; Down from the summit on texting; Automated announcements?; Watch for falling gas. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: You break it, you buy it
Metro sues for Orange Line damage; Not the right route; No more E-Z perks; Vacuum chic not cycle chic?; Riders would pay for bikes on Amtrak; Speed cameras working, mostly; Commuters find a way around I-66; Thanks, states. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cutting back and cutting through
Cherry blossoms without Circulation; More park, less cut-through in SF; Dulles taxis unpopular; A tale of two Safeways; Parking far more subsidized; San Jose rail light but not rapid; Everybody wants the TIGER. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bumps in the road
Keep on Circulating; Bumps cause conflict in Chevy Chase; National Harbor II; No houses without massive road construction; MWAA, the Major Widening Aspirations Association?; Md. cameras will come slowly; Failing not bailing the housing market. Keep reading…