Breakfast links: Fit and flinty
Your bag needs a workout
A Dutch bus stop ad tries to sell gym memberships by displaying your weight on a digital display. I’m with the commenters on most of these blogs who think this is in quite poor taste. Besides, that digital display would be much better used to tell you how many minutes until the bus shows up. (Feministing via Geekologie, Michael) (Tip: Michael)
Putting your MARC on White Flint
MARC is interested in a station along Rockville Pike. Park and Planning staff logically suggest a site near the Metro, but the nearby landowner doesn’t want it while some other slightly less nearby neighbors do. (Gazette)
Crowdsourcing your future condo’s shade of green
Instead of deciding how green to make a project, then trying to sell units, the Menkiti Group is using crowdsourcing tools to leave those decision up to the yet-to-be-determined unit owners of a project in Columbia Heights. (CoolTown Studios)
De-sprawling in Flint
Flint, Michigan is contemplating scaling back city services to abandoned neighborhoods. Youngstown, Ohio also recently discussed shrinkage. Why shouldn’t sprawl work in reverse, too? (Michigan News, Cavan) Update: Rob Goodspeed analyzes the issue in more depth for Detroit. (Tip: Cavan)
Mini links
Paul Sieczkowski argues that “neon is not a dirty word” despite the Downtown Neighborhood Association’s campaign against too many signs (The Triangle), and Life in Mount Vernon Square hopes for a SmartBike station.
To the north, development of the unremarkable Falkland Chase apartments in Silver Spring into a very poorly designed building is one step closer (Gazette via JUTP), and some Prince George’s Councilmembers started backtracking on their previous vote against publicly funding a United soccer stadium (Gazette). (Tip: Paul S)