A few trees don’t make a parking lot “green space.”

Still stuck in the 1960s: The Takoma Park City Council voted to keep spending city resources fighting a plan by WMATA and EYA to turn the big parking lot and dead space around the Takoma Metro into townhouses and a “village green.” They’re right that the townhouses have too much parking—two spaces per house, in many cases—but wrong about “green space,” which is only green if you park a fleet of green cars in it. Sadly, opponents fooled the Gazette reporter into calling the parking lot with a few grassy berms “6.8 acres of green space.”

Our neglected front yard: Newsweek looks at the sorry state of the Mall, with its dead fish, cracked sidewalks, outdated maps, and nowhere to sit let alone eat. “If 25 million people walked through your front yard, it might not look so nice either,” says the Parks Service. Of course, most people spend a larger percentage of their budgets on their front yards than the federal government does on its.

The Examiner is really stupid: Someone at the Examiner read a paper by crazy anti-transit activist Randal O’ (“the”) Toole, then went and misunderstood it. That the only possible way they could have come up with an editorial claiming rail uses more energy per person than cars. Really, no. Ryan Avent rebuts. Via Matt of Track Twenty-Nine.