Posts about Maryland
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Lunch links: Closing the case
This article was posted as an April Fool’s joke. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Getting it done
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Accokeek growth: A good idea in the wrong place at the wrong time
Located on the outer fringes of the Washington region, well outside the Favored Quarter, Accokeek is a very quiet, very low-density area of far southern Prince George’s County. Since it is both low-density, and miles from the Favored Quarter it lacks many retail and employment amenities that residents in the core of the region often take for granted. It is no surprise… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It’s not easy pretending to be green
“Green” SOLEA pushing car use; Air quality, pshaw!; Get your bike commuter benefit, as long as you never ride transit; More trains for Virginia; Can you CNU?; Union bus-ting in Fairfax?; States can do anything as long as it’s not for bicycles. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fit and flinty
Your bag needs a workout; Putting your MARC on White Flint; Crowdsourcing your future condo’s shade of green; De-sprawling in Flint; Mini links. Keep reading…
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Bye bye blank wall, hello parking lot, for now
A Baltimore Red Line news release touts the exciting news that Maryland will use stimulus money to demolish a portion of West Baltimore’s neighborhood-dividing “Highway to Nowhere”. In its place, leaders hope, will one day rise mixed-use development on this key transit node. In the meantime, though, the area will only get more parking. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Full spaces, empty spaces
That’s a few bikes; Another $2 mil for the empty garage; To raze or not to raze?; Living in a city is better for the environment (but not so much in DC); Maryland’s streets are especially dangerous; Dean hates Metro delays, platform dawdlers; We’re lookin’ at you, SEPTA; PG to United: build your own soccer stadium. Keep reading…
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White Flint master plan: it’s all about incentives
Montgomery County is continuing its planning process to retrofit the area surrounding the White Flint Metro into a vibrant livable, walkable community. The current owners of the land surrounding the Metro station are on board with the plan. They are also contributing their Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: We’re here, we’re urban
Hopefully not just like the Pentagon; Life, liberty, happiness and the ability to build sprawl?; Crosswalks aren’t temporary loading zones; Commute correlation computation; Seattle starts curbside composting; Mini links. Keep reading…
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Speed limits don’t match road designs
The trip from my house to the Beltway follows several major roads. Route 1 has narrow lanes, no median, and buildings close to the street, while others like Ritz Way sport generous medians and huge “clear zones” at the sides. However, the speed limits bear no relationship to the design of the roads. To the contrary, the high limits on Route 1 encourage dangerous speeding, while Ritz Way… Keep reading…