Photo by Nigel Paine on Flickr.

Plea for hit-and-run

The former Episcopal bishop who killed a cyclist while driving drunk and texting in Baltimore last December pled guilty to manslaughter and will serve ten years in prison. (WTOP)  

Sidewalk success

In 1961, city officials predicted that DC’s first sidewalk cafe would be bad for pedestrians and health. Now the Downtown Business Improvement District sees its 190 sidewalk cafes as an “indicator of vibrancy and livability”.  (WTOP)  

Give the people what they want

Residents helped decide that a DC-owned site in Shaw needs a mixed-income, mixed-use building. Under the new “Our RFP” program, developers will bid on the site using criteria that the community helped craft. (WBJ)  

The social stoop

The Mobile Community Stoop Project is bringing the front stoop back to DC.  Stoops are absent from most new multi-family developments but are still a quintessential social aspect of many neighborhoods. (CityLab)  

Forget the flag

The Alexandria Council voted unanimously to ban flying Confederate flags. But renaming streets and other landmarks that currently bear Confederate names will be a lot more complicated. (Post)  

Words were involved in an article-related incident

Get to know important new verb tenses like the “passive exonerative” that could apply as easily to traffic crashes as to the target of this clever satire. (McSweeney’s)  

Metro systems by the numbers

Which metro system is the longest? Which has the most stations? Which is the busiest? Because the way we define stations and systems isn’t consistent, it’s hard to say. (CityMetric)  

And…

The Prince George’s County Council can’t turn away development anymore just because they don’t like how it looks. (WBJ) … Even one of the Car Talk guys acknowledges that Americans are no longer in love with cars. (Car Talk) … Baltimore is seeking proposals for a bike share program. (WTOP)