Posts about Roads
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Breakfast links: Green and urban
Bulb-out in a box; Work for CSG; Current debates; Compartir las bicicletas; Cell phone bans best in cities?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Light rail reading
Books on the wind; Fair and purple; Mote out of our eyes; People walk? News to 9 News; Stuck on the train; Freeway pollution is bad; Bike bites. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Good luck getting there
Help Zipcar, make a few bucks; One more on Red, Orange; What happens in a storm; Privatization is magic!; Cities, ewwww(ing); Just 1 foot left for 3-foot passing; Walkable, photographable New York. Keep reading…
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6 steps to boulevardize Wheaton’s Viers Mill Road
Viers Mill Road (MD 586) in downtown Wheaton sticks out like a sore thumb from its surroundings. It currently acts as a barrier between the historic walkable urban town and the Westfield Wheaton properties. The road should be a celebrated urban boulevard. Its right-of-way goes back to colonial times, but was rebuilt as a suburban arterial in the 1960’s. … Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: MoSnow and MoCo
More snowy stuff; Forestry above and beyond; Maryland hearing bag bill; Better(-sounding) design for Falkland Chase; Lights, camera, zoning; Lots of bike parking or not that much?; Down in Atlanta. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Build it and pay for it
Potomac Yard funding solved?; Have developers pay for transit; Housing for Silver Spring; Road debates in MoCo; Republican-only town hall on I-66; Small empty spaces add up; Where buses make their money; Rails to trails, more literally. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving outside the Beltway
Devil’s bill dies; Driver kills two; Sprawlwater regulations?; A denser Columbia; Even more VRE; MARC boarding now less convenient?; Surprise, we’re building. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Communication needs work
Secret? Vehicular? Both?; Fenty, Rhee approval down; Redo L’Enfant Plaza; Andrews fighting Gaithersbungle; 3-foot in Maryland; Hands-free is also distracting; How Fannie and Freddie inhibit mixed-use. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to spend federal money
$8 billion, high-speed; 9.6% of trips, 1.2% of money; Money for less free parking; Indian freeway turns town square into barrier; Challenge BikeArlington; 3-foot passing closer to passing; Urbanist Republican(s) for Planning Board. Keep reading…
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Is MoCo DOT stacking the BRAC deck for an underpass?
The Montgomery DOT is kicking off a NEPA study of the Medical Center Metro area, and at a meeting last week, officials insisted that all options are on the table, including underpasses, overpasses, elevators, pedestrian-only crossings, pedestrian and vehicle crossings, and more. The end goal is to modify the Rockville Pike/MD 355 area between NIH and Navy Med (soon to be Walter… Keep reading…