Posts about Roads
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Breakfast links: Smaller footprints
Fewer feds raises revenues; Smile, you’re on camera; Paying for permitting; Downsizing; Bridge rebuilding; MARC moves to diesel; Beautification Day no more; Like father, not like son. Keep reading…
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A new highway would improve access to walkable White Flint, but for whom?
The Maryland State Highway Administration wants to build a new highway in White Flint, one of the region’s most celebrated transit-oriented redevelopment efforts. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: We’d really like nice things
Less money; Escalator out; Why transit stinks here; Police on camera; Pennsylvania Avenue revitalized; Maximize the Mall; Tapped out; Singing for statehood; In LA the car is out; Hello old friend. Keep reading…
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When crossing the Potomac, six train tracks do the work of dozens of highway lanes
Vehicles can only cross the Potomac in 11 places, and the three that are for rail carry 30% of commuters across the river. It takes 57 highway lanes to carry the rest. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Blunders and bikes
Another tough day for Metro; Derailment details; No CaBi for College Park; Bike injuries up; Why we run reds; Crime trends; Goat mowers return. Keep reading…
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Major traffic jams accompany Metro’s derailment
Traffic is very, very bad right now, especially across the Potomac, NBC reporter Adam Tuss pointed out on Twitter. The Metro service disruption from a train derailing this morning surely contributed. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Work from home
Derailed; Only 3 months; First one in; The new guy; Franklin facelift; Timber!; There’s (almost) an app for that; Spend less, get more. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving the goalposts
Don’t toll me, bro; Towing the line; Bikeshare by the numbers; All school and no play; Statehood song takes off; Speed tickets slow; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Paying and placing transit
Green for Purple; Silver at bat; No bus parking; Housing paying for transit; The housing burden; Worse before it gets better; Tokyo drifts toward zero deaths. Keep reading…
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In Silver Spring, cutting travel lanes doesn’t make traffic backups worse
Last year, a segment of Silver Spring’s University Boulevard shrank from six lanes to four to accommodate work to replace the bridge that passes over the Capital Beltway. There’s less room for cars to pass through the work zone, but traffic congestion hasn’t gotten worse. Keep reading…