Mall plus plus: The July 2006 issue of Washingtonian presented a vision for the National Mall that would create landfill and new canals behind the Jefferson Memorial to create space for new memorials and a relocated Supreme Court; the VRE tracks would also be buried to restore Maryland Avenue as a mirror of Pennsylvania. Thanks Nick!

Streetcars across Alexandria: Here’s a March 2005 proposal for streetcars across the City of Alexandria. Thanks Steven!

Left: Proposal for the Mall. Right: Alexandria streetcar proposal.

How to make restaurants work: Richard Layman has some concrete suggestions for making neighborhood restaurants work, with a special eye to Georgia Avenue and H Street.

Don’t call me Shirlington: Arlington just opened a bus transfer station in Shirlington, making a fairly car-oriented part of Arlington a little more transit-oriented. “This is a great example of where you can do transit-oriented development even when you don’t have a rail station,” said WMATA Chairman and Arlingtonian Chris Zimmerman.