Posts about Virginia
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Suburban stereotypes pollute Post, WBJ reporting
Journalists writing “news” stories strive to make their articles impartial, but hidden biases about suburbs, cities, traffic and transportation often creep in. The Washington Business Journal, for example, reported on the Eastern Market Metro Plaza proposals, and explained the options in a straightforward manner. Yet the first sentence reads, “In case… Keep reading…
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Bike news
The DC Bicycle Advisory Council met on Wednesday, and DDOT revealed lots of interesting news, which WashCycle kindly wrote up in great detail. Some of the highlights: Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: (Auto)mobility and the environment
Freeways bad for pregnant women; Better stormwater management in Virginia; Popular ART; Freako press coverage of crashes; Parking pressures at Eastern Market; Gabe on video. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Attention deficit
MATD?; Unsafety in College Park; Fairfax County City?; Metro bits; Council clippings; Cities growing, but anti-city assumptions still exist in reporters’ heads. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: 14th, car-centrism, and you
Noise on 14th, from bars and politics; Huge garage better than daytime neighborhood activity?; DC, MD fix it first; VA widens it first; Pedestrian strikes front of fast-moving police cruiser; And…. Keep reading…
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Are people using the Seven Corners pedestrian bridge?
On May 20th, Fairfax County finally opened the pedestrian overpass at Seven Corners. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stand up and be counting
Entitled Driver Syndrome alive and well; Count bikes and peds Thursday and Saturday; Safeway Avenue, NW; Maryland may actually start being smart; Development updates; Metro morsels. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Vox populi
Make no little plans for Summer Streets; Buses are confusing, what else is new?; Is NextBus data proprietary?; In search of an official modernist champion, you mean; Rails and trails; And…. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Skyscrapers and Oklahomans
And the best employer to commute to is…; Height limit debate of the day; Just under the wire; Senators preemptively reject reform; Let’s rotate fiscal conservatives through the Transportation Committee to educate them; And…. Keep reading…
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New Post columnist suggests circumferential Metro
Washington Post Metro editor Robert McCartney is the paper’s newest Metro columnist, replacing Marc Fisher. In his inaugural column, McCartney recommends (among other things) a circumferential Metro line around the region. Keep reading…