Greater Greater Week in Review: April 10-16, 2011
Photo by suburbannation on Flickr.
Take Metro in a wheelchair, just once: Do Metro executives know what the Metro is like for a person who uses a wheelchair?.
Standard voting creates strategic quandary for at-large race: I’d love to see Sekou Biddle, Patrick Mara, and Bryan Weaver all get seats on the DC Council. All three are smart and have generally good policy ideas. I’d vote for any of the three over at least half of the incumbents.
GGW debates: Is CaBi getting a good deal on Living Social?: This weekend Capital Bikeshare featured half price monthly and annual memberships on the social coupon site Living Social. By the end, more than 8,000 memberships were sold. But is this really good for CaBi?
Anthony Williams should run for president for DC rights: I want former DC Mayor Anthony Williams to run for president.
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Mayor, Councilmembers arrested; what’s next?: Mayor Gray, Kwame Brown, Tommy Wells, Muriel Bowser, Yvette Alexander, Sekou Biddle and Michael Brown were arrested by Capitol Police along with several other activists today, protesting Congress’ abusing their power to step on DC’s rights to make its own governance decisions.
FY11 budget threatens national high-speed rail network: With Congress cutting spending left and right, one of the casualties has been President Obama’s high-speed rail initiative. The loss of $2.8 billion in funding is a major blow to the program.
Silver Spring superblocks should be broken up: Downtown Silver Spring has been championed for its revitalization and become a hub of transportation, commerce, and residential development. With every new building that goes up, the town becomes a little more walkable. Some areas, however, have yet to catch up.
Restaurants and bars enhance commercial district diversity: Does Barracks Row have too many restaurants? In November 2010, ANC6B established a Retail Mix Task Force (RMTF), which entertained, but ultimately rejected, the idea of pursuing a moratorium on liquor license applications on Barracks Row. Restaurants, it decided, complement other activities.
A liquor license reveals challenges with living on the border: Residents who live near DC’s border have Maryland residents as neighbors, but local laws often act as though nothing but desert lies beyond Western, Eastern, and Southern Avenues.
Other posts:
- Does DC need more councilmembers?
- Transit groups ask for parking fee instead of rail service cuts
- Lost Washington: The Grace Dodge Hotel
- Consolidate bus stops to speed up the 30s line
- Metro should include fare increase option in FY12 budget
- Market-rate parking comes to SF. What can DC learn?
- Great East Falls Church plan approaching the finish line
- GU campus plan changes target zoning board, not neighbors
- Biking by the Flickr pool
- Simplify Shirlington-Pentagon bus choices
- Prince George’s developers can still pay to play
- Alexandria pilots monthly SmarTrip bus pass
- Big plans for better transit in Ward 5 will take some time
- Metro funding spared