Posts about Maryland
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Afternoon links: Against stupidity edition
Still stuck in the 1960s: The Takoma Park City Council voted to keep spending city resources fighting a plan by WMATA and EYA to turn the big parking lot and dead space around the Takoma Metro into townhouses and a “village green.” They’re right that the townhouses have too much parking—two spaces per house, in many cases—but wrong about “green… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Doing it better edition
S is for slow: At last night’s public meeting for the S1/S2/S4 buses, participants suggested limited-stop service, removing parking for bus-only lanes, and fewer stops (in Columbia Heights, there’s a stop almost every single block) were among the suggestions. (Post) Keep reading…
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Best places to live… if gas were still $1.50
Money has one of those silly rankings of the best places to live in America. Columbia, Maryland is #8; Hunter Mill, Sully, and Burke, Virginia #19, 25, and 31 respectively; Gaithersburg #29, Reston #37, and Rockville #66. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Make BRT not war edition
Rapid buses coming rapidly: WMATA has a priority list of 24 corridors to get the rapid bus treatment including limited-stop express service and “signal priority” technology to hold yellow lights for buses, reports BeyondDC. Last night, Jim Hamre of WMATA presented details to Maryland’s Action Committee for Transit. Tops on the list for DC are the 16th Street… Keep reading…
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Late night links: familiar battle lines edition
Moran, Oberstar defend transit: Virginia’s Burke Connection covered Monday’s town hall meeting in Tysons. Oberstar, the chair of the House Transportation Committee, got most of the quotes in the article, defending light rail and criticizing the federal funding formula which ignores many factors. And, like all pro-transit officials, he expressed a clear hope that… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: You should go to Monday’s hearings edition
Graham isn’t against streetcars: Despite reports in the press, Jim Graham assured BeyondDC that he isn’t opposed to the Anacostia streetcar line. He just wants to ask questions. It’s a good opportunity to educate the Council on the need for streetcars there, on H Street, and elsewhere. Monday, July 14, 10:00… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: People aren’t so dumb edition
It might be well past breakfast for you, but thanks to fog in Boston and AirTran’s crappy customer service, I got home at 3 am last night, so it’s breakfast time for me. Keep reading…
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“Mall people” and Montgomery County’s downtowns
Imagine, DC reimagines Langley Park with a stronger street grid, a transit center for the Purple Line and buses. Could Langley Park, like Silver Spring, transform from a depressed, sprawly, and mostly low-income set of strip malls into a desirable and more diverse destination? Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Building one freeway, tearing one down edition
Formula sunk the ICC bike trail: The WashCycle has more details on why the ICC bike trail was dropped for “environmental reasons”. It’s another example of stupid, overly narrow federal funding formulas that lead to distorted outcomes. Keep reading…
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Catalyzing strip-mall sprawl into a mixed-use boulevard
How do you transform a low-density corridor of strip malls into a walkable, mixed-use community? That’s the question facing Rockville, whose Pike runs alongside the Red Line but is filled with one-story big-box retail and choked with traffic. It could be so much more, and Rockville agrees. Over the past few months, they’ve held community meetings (one of which I attended)… Keep reading…