Posts about Maryland
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ICC overrun more than entire Columbia Pike streetcar
The price tag for the middle segment of the ICC, from Georgia Avenue almost to Columbia Pike, has jumped another $100 million. BeyondDC points out that Virginia could build the entire Columbia Pike streetcar for less money than Maryland is wasting on the overrun alone for this one segment. Keep reading…
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Md. only listening to car-bound suburban and rural citizens
“You can make a difference for future generations,” says the State of Maryland. “Attend and be heard!” The state is holding six Smart Growth listening sessions to hear residents’ thoughts on development, transportation, historic preservation, the environment and more. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Thinking backward edition
Speeding you up isn’t the county’s only priority: A Bethesda driver writes the Gazette to complain about No Turn On Red signs. “We should do all we can to remove obstacles to efficient traffic flow,” he argues, but the county disagrees; with growing numbers of pedestrians, many intersections lack the visibility for drivers to turn right safely. Keep reading…
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Accessory dwelling debate comes to MoCo
Montgomery County allows accessory dwellings, but homeowners must first obtain a “special exception” from zoning authorities. That’s a time-consuming and burdensome process. It’s no surprise, therefore, that in a county of about a million people, there are only 162 accessory apartments, most in Takoma Park and Silver Spring. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Simple solutions edition
Farragut’s “invisible tunnel”: CommuterPageBlog asks why Metro can’t easily allow free out-of-system transfers between Farragut North and West, allowing people to exit at one and re-enter the other on a single fare instead of riding around to the crowded Metro Center. NYC has two of these. Keep reading…
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A field guide to NIMBYism
I sometimes refer to those opposing any change as NIMBYs, though that’s not precisely accurate. The term NIMBY originally referred to those who wanted projects like highways, airports, or waste disposal facilities (LULUs) but wanted them to just be built elsewhere. That still describes many opponents of local projects, like the “save the environment somewhere else”… Keep reading…
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COG climate change report briefing tomorrow
Climate experts from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) are briefing the DC Council tomorrow about COG’s Climate Change Report. Produced by a steering committee co-chaired by Councilmember Mary Cheh, MoCoCo’s Nancy Floreen and Fairfax’s Gerry Connolly (likely the next Congressman from NoVa), the report gives 78 recommendations… Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Sprawl advocacy pro and con edition
Safety for their schools, not others: The Town of Chevy Chase is slowing traffic around one of its schools while, as ACT points out, advocating for a Purple Line bus alignment that would send rapid buses right past another school outside their limits. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Politics in the press edition
National pols ignorant of DC politics: No surprise here: they’re DC superdelegates, but many don’t know the name of their City Council member. (I can forgive them for not knowing all the shadow Senators.) The Post popped them with a pop quiz and got many failing grades. Keep reading…
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PG building edge cities, neglecting Metro stations
Prince George’s County leaders are very proud that Konterra Town Center is moving forward. It’s a huge development at I-95 and the future Intercounty Connector in Laurel. It’s even bigger and just as auto-dependent as their other totally transit-inaccessible edge city, National Harbor, which, after building itself far from transit, started complaining… Keep reading…