Greater Greater Week in Review: March 13-19, 2011
Photo by rpmaxwell on Flickr.
If you can’t read Greater Greater Washington every day, you’ll still be able to catch all our posts at a glance with Greater Greater Week in Review.
Featured posts:
Contest: Design a better Metro map: Do you think you can design a better Metro map? We’re having a contest to see what a new Metro map could look like.
Hine project is opportunity too great to pass up: Last night, residents across Ward 6 got an update on the Stanton/Eastbanc project proposed for the former Hine Junior High School site.
Downtown Silver Spring provides freedom for couple: I’ve just returned home from a great commute, and am in the best mood I’ve been in all day. How many people say that regularly?
To reduce enforcement errors, MPD wants traffic division: The Metropolitan Police Department wants a dedicated traffic unit to fix enforcement problems, including stories about officers serving tickets to injured pedestrians or cyclists at the hospital.
Most popular:
Now and not so long ago: M and Potomac: Here is the 3200 block of M Street, NW today and in 1993.
How much land is in each quadrant?: How much of each of DC’s quadrants is land? Water? Parks? Military bases? The quadrants aren’t all equal. Far from it.
Facebook, live comments diametrically opposed on skybridge: The Montgomery County Council has again rejected a skybridge for the Silver Spring library, but the hearing revealed some fascinating facts about the ways people debate in person and on social media.
DC Council considers primary date, diagonal parking, free school transit, taxi medallions and much more: DC’s primary will likely move to April, people will get solar rebates, and bills introduced in the DC Council yesterday could establish a taxi medallion system, make transit free for schoolchildren, add diagonal parking, and put requirements on large retailers like Walmart.
Capital Bikeshare introduces new 5-day pass: Capital Bikeshare has quietly added a new rental option: a 5-day pass, priced at $15.
Other posts:
- Walk or bike along the Anacostia, but only business hours
- Upper NW livability study, part 2: Circles and conflicts
- Two plans devise opposite approaches for Rockville Pike
- Upper NW study suggests traffic calming, bike boulevards
- Food trucks enhance brick-and-mortar restaurants
- Ward 7 residents ask for safer, more reliable bus service
- Despite rich history, no theaters remain east of the river
- Will Baker make Prince George’s safe for walking and biking?
- Live chat with George Hawkins of DC Water
- New national design guide moves bike infrastructure forward
- Scenes of Washington: Murals
- Reconstructing the Flickr pool
- Support CSG and WABA’s efforts this spring