Posts about Virginia
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Metro reveals planned art for Silver Line stations
Today, the Metro Board will review proposals for public art at Farragut North and future Silver Line stations at Tysons Corner and Reston. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Greener except on the Green Line
Uncutting transit; No Metro after late Nats games?; Good job Cavan!; FOX supports transit yesterday; Moran introduces national bag fee; More for the Mall; Vehicle hits man, reporter ignores driver; Too aggressive; UMD deletes garages; How about zig-zags?; Fenty’s $4,000 bike and other facts; Shopping to housing in Germantown; Not what we meant, Mendo. Keep reading…
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Frontline examines imperiled watersheds and the Arlington solution
Last night, PBS’s Frontline aired a program about the threatened Chesapeake Bay. “More than three decades after the Clean Water Act, iconic American waterways like the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound are in perilous condition and facing new sources of contamination,” they write. Our health and food sources depend on these coastal areas, but new pollutants are… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Running into walls
Anti-soccer or just generally anti-people?; Carnage in Prince George’s; Groups want smaller, greener White Flint; Potomac Yard Metro Alternative Analysis; Can BRT be great?; That’s not treading lightly; CirculatorTube. Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: Bikes, trikes and automobiles
Bikes becoming fashionable in NYC; Arlington pushes trikes; Montgomery pushes cars; No eating unless you’re a cop; Lewis calls out the antis; What’s wrong with Franklin Square?; Rail should replace short flights; Short buildings equal job sprawl; Korea has “women-only” parking spaces; Bags for the City. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Don’t be scared
Whoosh; Nothing to fear from overhead wires; Why people like streetcars; Are signboards so bad?; Counties eye ending parking subsidies; GOOD and bad on transit; Dc changes mind on CFSA move, imperils Ward 7 project; Are Virginia counties hoarding education stimulus money?; Still not inclusionary, again. Keep reading…
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Live chat with Chris Zimmerman
Welcome to our live chat with Chris Zimmerman, Member of the Arlington County Board and many transportation-related regional steering bodies, including Metro, VRE, and the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission. Feel free to settle in early and start posting your questions. We’ll start the discussion at 1 pm. Mr. Zimmerman looks forward to taking your questions. Keep reading…
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TPB creates more extensive yet sprawlier BRT map
Yesterday, we discussed the BRT proposal from the Transportation Planning Board that would apply for a stimulus grant to construct a beginning network of Bus Rapid Transit routes in the region. Dan posted in the comments that the committee had already expanded the map to contain a variety of corridors, which they will then whittle down to an initial network for the stimulus grant application. Here’s… Keep reading…
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Live chat: Chris Zimmerman, Thursday at 1 pm
Greater Greater Washington will host its next live guest, Chris Zimmerman, Thursday at 1 pm. Zimmerman is a member of the Arlington County Board, the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“Metro”), the Transportation Planning Board for the National Capital Region, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority and the Northern Virginia… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Flexibility and inflexibility in ideas and leaders
Bendy trains?; More loading zones?; One County Executive cuts bicycling; Another beefs up pedestrian safety; Stop the free tickets for elected officials; New nominees for HPRB, Zoning Commission; And lots more news; Riders object to service cuts. Keep reading…