Top ten most-commented posts of 2009
What posts on Greater Greater Washington generated the most discussion in 2009?
- “No more cars” vs. “not more cars” (August 11): Do advocates for livable and walkable places “hate cars” and want everyone to bicycle everywhere?
- DDOT unveils vision for eight streetcar lines (October 23): Where might streetcars run one day in the District of Columbia?
- No bloody slashes, dashes or unnecessary acronyms (March 10): What if all our Metro stations had short names?
- McMillan Two envisions a classical Anacostia (October 14): Architect Nir Buras’ proposal to narrow the Anacostia River and make it more like the Seine.
- 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?
- Starchitects design African-American museum (March 30): The six finalists for the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American Art and Culture.
- 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.
- Wisconsin Giant opponents file lawsuit (September 11): The latest move by opposing residents to stop development of the Giant at Wisconsin and Newark.
- 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.
- 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?