Posts about Maryland
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MoCoCo picks developer over transit-oriented activist
The Montgomery County Council narrowly passed over Action Committee for Transit President Ben Ross, a Smart Growth advocate as well as the leading Purple Line activist, for a spot on the Montgomery County Planning Board. They instead elected Joseph Alfandre, developer of the New Urbanist but non-transit-oriented Kentlands community in Gaithersburg. Maryland Politics… Keep reading…
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Mid-morning coffee links: tragedy of the commons edition
Is more chaos more safe? Too many road signs can, counterintuitively, be less safe than uncontrolled intersections, says an article in the Atlantic, using (slightly improperly) the analogy to the “tragedy of the commons”. The basic premise is right; according to George Branyan, Pedestrian Program Coordinator of DDOT, uncontrolled intersections (no traffic lights)… Keep reading…
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Burtonsville residents debate mixed-use and “undesirables”
Just Up the Pike attended a recent charrette on improving the village center in Burtonsville. Located along Columbia Pike (Route 29) a little west of Laurel, Burtonsville saw its biggest draw, a farmer’s market, move to Laurel. The main crossroads at Routes 29 and 198 is a collection of low-density commercial buildings. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: transportation across the nation edition
Only in Portland? Hundreds of people gathered to tear up an underutilized parking lot and replace it with a community garden. Streetfilms created a video of the festivities. My favorite part is the dancers on stilts wielding giant jackhammers. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Kansas outdoes everyone else edition
Buy a Chrysler now, and lock in your destructive lifestyle! A great Tom the Dancing Bug satirizes Chrysler’s offer to lock in $2.99/gallon gas to new buyers. How long until they go bankrupt? Who cares! Since when did US automakers think about the future? Via Richard Layman. Keep reading…
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Our transportation priorities
BeyondDC wrote about the latest Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), released by MWCOG’s Transportation Planning Board. This summarizes all transportation projects through 2014 that the region’s governments have funded or plan to fund. Keep reading…
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Greater Baltimore & Washington Transit Future pocket version
I’ve created a new version of the Transit Future map, with some updates, at the request of Maryland PIRG. This version is smaller, without all the station names, so it’s easier to see everything at once. Click on the map for a bigger version. Keep reading…
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Donna Edwards: for better buses, against National Harbor
There’s a good profile of future MD-4 Congresswoman Donna Edwards in the Post. Edwards beat incumbent Al Wynn in the primary last spring, and is expected to win a special election Tuesday to finish the last few months of Wynn’s term. Keep reading…
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MoCoCo on library parking: is Don Praisner senile?
The Montgomery County Council is considering ending their subsidy of free parking at libraries which are located in town centers with paid parking. I’m watching the Council hearing on streaming video, and they just got to it. I’m liveblogging it below. Final update: The Council just voted 5-4 for an amendment which essentially guts the proposed resolution entirely. Keep reading…
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Weekend reading
“Not sexy”: Politicians aren’t yet embracing transit as the solution to high gas prices, but they will, argues Ryan Avent in Grist. Keep reading…