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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.

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Councilmembers vehemently stand up for stingy, multiple-car owning, wealthy residents: The DC Council met today to discuss the budget. At times, the discussion became quite heated, particularly when some members were defending the rights of people who own 3 cars and make over $200,000, yet wouldn’t consider driving downtown for dinner if it cost them $4 to park.

People believe subway maps over reality: Maps matter. Metro’s and London’s transit maps present distorted geographies in order to make the system’s organization clearer. They have become iconic, but the way they present distances shapes people’s understanding of space and distance in their region.

See the redesigned Metro maps and vote for your favorite!: 17 people entered our Redesign the Metro Map contest. Now, you can see the entries and vote on them!

Ward 4 wouldn’t suffer from graduated RPP: Muriel Bowser got quite angry at Tommy Wells yesterday over the proposal to make residential parking permit (RPP) fees higher for a household’s 2nd and 3rd cars and beyond. She claimed Ward 4 would pay a disproportionate amount, but has not gotten its share of transit expansion. However, the numbers don’t bear out her claims.

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Wisconsin Giant goes from “modern” to outdated: People in Cleveland Park are so eager for the dilapidated Wisconsin Giant to be replaced by a new mixed-use development. Even project opponent Phil Mendelson called it a “third world grocery”. But in the 1950s, this was “Washington’s newest, most excitingly beautiful food department store.”

What’s the longest street in DC with no traffic control?: West Virginia Avenue forms the boundary between Gallaudet University and Trinidad. A fence lines the university property, making diffusion between the school and the neighborhood difficult. Were it not there, crossing West Virginia Avenue would still be very difficult, because traffic doesn’t have to stop anywhere along this boundary.

Maryland keeps transitway in King Farm: If the Corridor Cities Transitway is built, it will be built along the King Farm Boulevard alignment that has been planned for decades, despite opposition from a few residents and the Rockville City Council.

White Flint interchange could have been a great place: Last week, I was invited to Boston by the Federal Highway Administration to talk about livability. Five years ago, would anyone have thought that would be possible?

Georgetown businesses and residents don’t support Evans’ parking meter rollback proposal: Councilmember Jack Evans says he wants to roll back parking meter rates and hours of enforcement in commercial corridors, including Georgetown, because of complaints from businesses and residents in his ward. But after speaking to organizations representing residents and businesses in Georgetown, I found no support for Evans’ proposal.

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Matt Johnson has lived in the Washington area since 2007. He has a Master’s in Planning from the University of Maryland and a BS in Public Policy from Georgia Tech. He lives in Dupont Circle. He’s a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and is an employee of the Montgomery County Department of Transportation. His views are his own and do not represent those of his employer.