Posts about Maryland
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Breakfast links: Full of hot air
Subway air-powered art; How’s your track doing?; Country lane or hazard to children? Both?; No room for books between the parking lots; Shaw rejoices; Gaithersburg fairly progressive after all; Roundabouts for Maryland, too?; Best cities for singles are walkable. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The blind spot
Found it; Turns out it was unsafe after all; Against big government, except at VDOT?; Sun says “lose the lanes”; Now the traffic and megachurch reserve?; Tidbits from a secret meeting; One intersection “repaired,” more to go; Your childhood neighborhood affects your income. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links II: Roads, rails and walls
Widening 270 is very bad for Baltimore; Yet another highway?; Game trains you to move cars above all; The people I used to be are ruining my neighborhood!; Riders not happy; Lynx links new riders to transit; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Think outside the car
The right way to talk about performance parking; Sign for streetcars; Do parking spaces vote in Gaithersburg?; Tough to shake the cell phone habit; Reduce crash injuries, unsafe driving, or just driving?; The Idaho Stop is safer; Hawthorne’s sidewalk “war”; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: In the east and the south
Greenmonston; Now the “rural until a developer shows interest” tier; MARC-oriented development at Bowie State; Not so minor; What are DDOT’s streetcar plans?; DCPL in the now; Then and now, overlaid; Atkins or South Beach road diet?. Keep reading…
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Silver Spring library skybridge rejected
Proposals for a skybridge connecting Silver Spring’s new library to the adjacent parking garage became even more remote yesterday, as Montgomery County’s Health and Human Services and Planning, Housing, and Economic Development Committees voted to uphold the existing prohibitions against skybridges in downtown Silver Spring. The Silver Spring CBD Urban… Keep reading…
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A fine line: Langley Park’s planned redevelopment
It’s rare that an area so physically suburban already possesses the people element of a thriving urban center. It might be counterintuitive to think that improving transit to such an area could negatively impact that vibrancy. But this is the threat Prince George’s redevelopment plan around poses to Langley Park. The Purple Line will bring positive effects to the community,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Green places also have quick curbs, market-priced meters, and safe trains
DC’s “green” places; Giving with one hand, taking away with another; Track circuts keep breaking; Metro restricts info?; 270 bad for environment, political balance; Watergate sold! Or, nobody bids on the Watergate!; Business owner prevents customers from parking at meters; Maybe San Francisco will do it. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Round and round the debate goes
Reengineer the city around cars, or…; Rounder, safer, better; Cheap gas = obesity; Blumenauer pushing green commuting incentives; Too expensive to serve the poor; Co-op living, corporation tax structure; Stop giving money to gas guzzling states. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Maryland train to crazy town
Red and Purple together; Single tracking??!?; MTA out of the spying biz; Crime down, experts happy but baffled; The street e?; 1000s in train middles not a new idea; Walk or bike to Metro?. Keep reading…