Posts about Roads
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Breakfast links: Eye of the beholder
Murals: Love ‘em or hate ‘em?; “Rethinking” SmarTrip (but not bus stop spacing); Streetcar wires AND trees?; All together now: Highways are really expensive; And gas taxes don’t cover it; Gateway may close Virginia Ave; I just didn’t see the elephant. Keep reading…
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With great horsepower comes great responsibility
Via Copenhagenize comes this road safety campaign directed at children in the United Kingdom. The video embedded below is one of three television ads from the campaign. It does its best to scare children and blame the victim: Keep reading…
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Make Fairfax Circle a real circle
Fairfax City has made a number of recent decisions that seem as anti-pedestrian and pro-vehicle. Fairfax Circle is the perfect place for the city to take a step in the right direction that is both car- and pedestrian-friendly. The existing not-quite circle at the intersections of Routes 29 and 50 is counterintuitive and possibly dangerous for a number of reasons: Like… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What people like
Britons like classical architecture; Voters like transit; Longer corridor, more cities transitway; “Home plate” building illustrated; New UMD housing, parking, biking; Blame the road designer, not the pedestrian; Get that dead body out of my way!. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Delays due to broken systems
Why no breakfast links today?; Montgomery traffic signals go out; Metro communication systems go out; Pay for park parking if you don’t park in the park; Transit Score; And…; “Roads” now includes transit?. Keep reading…
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Take Washington Blvd to mystery unnamed road
Look up driving directions from Pentagon City to the eastern part of Clarendon, and your map site will probably suggest taking Washington Boulevard to Clarendon Boulevard. And that’s a fine route, except for one thing. What’s missing from these pictures? Answer: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Harebrained approaches to traffic
The right to drive distracted?; Debate tolls thoroughly! Now don’t!; Making transit more accessible; Talk long-term; Jaydriving worse than jaywalking; Buffett Northern Santa Fe; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Good job, reporters and juries
Putting you in danger; Headline a flop, article good; Don’t let the growth policy flop; Deliberately hurt two cyclists, go to jail; Tax shelter hazard rears its head again; Everybody cross now. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Space to walk and bike
And the winners are…; Get off the (local) road; How to utilize street space for people; Velo vandals; ICC tolls no surprise; Let’s grow the Branch; Parking from SF to Tulsa. Keep reading…
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Rein’s “OMG $15 billion” Tysons costs include transportation far from Tysons
Today’s Washington Post reports that Tysons transportation improvements will cost $15 billion. There’s just one problem: it’s false. The article, bearing the alarmist headline, “Tysons will need $15 billion — ‘with a B,’” begins: Remaking Tysons Corner into the second city of Washington will take a lot more than a new… Keep reading…