What posts on Greater Greater Washington generated the most discussion in 2009?

  1. “No more cars” vs. “not more cars” (August 11): Do advocates for livable and walkable places “hate cars” and want everyone to bicycle everywhere?
  2. DDOT unveils vision for eight streetcar lines (October 23): Where might streetcars run one day in the District of Columbia?
  3. No bloody slashes, dashes or unnecessary acronyms (March 10): What if all our Metro stations had short names?
  4. McMillan Two envisions a classical Anacostia (October 14): Architect Nir Buras’ proposal to narrow the Anacostia River and make it more like the Seine.
  5. Ticketing of cars in public space reaches Capitol Hill (April 27): Drivers can’t park in public space in front of houses in DC. Good policy or bad?
  6. Starchitects design African-American museum (March 30): The six finalists for the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American Art and Culture.
  7. Early inaugural post-mortem: Nice job, Metro! (January 21): Metro had its best day ever on January 20th. Then it had the worst year ever.
  8. Wisconsin Giant opponents file lawsuit (September 11): The latest move by opposing residents to stop development of the Giant at Wisconsin and Newark.
  9. Impending storm could trigger the Metro “snow map” (December 18): When the biggest December storm since 1984 make the Metro map look like it’s 1984.
  10. Transforming a suburban church into a neighborhood (October 29): Could a Virginia church surrounded by acres of parking become the anchor for a new neighborhood?

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.