Rendering via Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization.

Columbia Pike streetcar gets design money: Arlington has approved funding to design and plan a Columbia Pike streetcar. This $3 million will let the county work on figuring out how to come up with the rest of the money they need to actually build the thing. (How about having VDOT use more transportation dollars for streetcars instead of all highways all the time?) P.S. I call on all DC area press to observe a moratorium on any Tennessee Williams-inspired headlines concerning streetcars and jurisdictions’ desire for them. (WTOP)

Enough about the Apple store already: Roger Lewis thinks the 18-month process to approve an Apple Store design for Georgetown was way too long, and the glass facade of the original really would have been fine. (Post)

Go talk to that other agency: Mount Pleasant ANC Commissioner Jack McKay got stuck in “permit purgatory” when trying to get No Parking signs to take down a diseased tree. I’ve written before about the crazy process; McKay’s experience was far, far worse, most of all because this time, the police actually followed the official procedure and made him get a permit. (DCwatch)

Now it’s a “misunderstanding”: Fairfax Supervisor Catherine Hudgins may vote for the I-66 widening at the Transportation Policy Board meeting Wednesday. But if she does, that’d be because VDOT now claims they’ll finish this year that promised alternatives analysis they weren’t going to bother to complete. With the previous vote, COG members were sending VDOT a message: don’t reneg on your promises. (WTOP)

And: An Oregon legislator proposed a $54 bi-yearly registration fee for all bicyclists (Freakonomics, tip: John) … Life in Mount Vernon Square is organizing to advocate for streetcars on K Street … DDOT will revise a destination sign in Northeast Capitol Hill to point toward, local attractions like Eastern Market, not just “Downtown” … and speaking of wayfinding, the Arlandrian mocks up some signs for their neighborhood.