Breakfast links: Life getting easier for littlest peds

Walk to School [Every]Day

Yesterday’s Walk to School Day brought the pitter-patter of feet to sidewalks in DC and around the world. (TBD)

Kids will walk safer in PG

The county, where drivers struck 70 kids last year alone, received a $2.1-million grant to provide safer routes to school. The county will add sidewalks, crosswalks, and speed tables near schools countywide. (Examiner)

Zipcar parks elsewhere

Now that DDOT auctioned off car-sharing spaces to Zipcar and its new competitors, Zipcar lost 80% of its on-street spaces. (TBD) … Should DDOT have granted a regulated monopoly instead or is that a bad idea? (City Paper, Forbes)

Leggett hot for sprawl

County Exec. Ike Leggett has ordered county agencies to expedite their approval of Holy Cross Hospital’s expansion into Germantown.  The expansion will put 1,500 jobs 8.6 miles from the nearest Metro. (Examiner)

Geoff catches a bicycle thief

Our very own Geoff Hatchard, who recently lamented bike thefts at Metro stations, caught a bicycle thief at the New York Avenue Metro.  The perpetrator was a young kid.  (District Curmudgeon)

Eastern Market vendors fear rent increases

Tommy Wells wants to transfer Eastern Market to a quasi-public trust whose board would include appointees from the mayor, council, and vendors.  Some long-time vendors fear being priced out. (Post)

MoCo politicos resents gerrymandering

Council Pres. Valerie Ervin accuses fellow Maryland Democrats of gerrymandering Congressional districts. The proposal, she says, marginalizes black voters, who “were taken for granted once again.” (Examiner)

Help with the zoning rewrite… for money

One of the folks working on DC’s zoning rewrite recently left to go to grad school. Do you want the job? Here are the details.

And…

Engineers have finished inspecting the Washington Monument for earthquake damage. (Post) … Should the nearly bankrupt Lincoln Theater screen movies? (City Paper, PoP) … Demand for area office space is down. (WBJ)