Breakfast links: Location, location, location

Find some ped safety projects, quick

College Park got $350-600,000 from speed cameras, but didn’t plan how to spend it and now has 2 months before it’s forfeit. Pedestrian signals in dangerous spots would be a good use. (Rethink College Park)

The cupcake shop doesn’t own the sidewalk

Shops next to Georgetown Cupcake in Bethesda are upset about the lines to get in, which often block their own stores. This raises interesting questions about who is entitled to use the sidewalk. (Georgetown Dish)

Sustainable federal sites a little pricier

A presidential executive order requires agencies to look for sites near transit and housing. But those sites are more expensive, though they cost less in the long run in transportation infrastructure and commuting costs. But will a Congress interested in saving money push for a more penny-wise, pound-foolish sprawl approach? (Housing Complex)

Incentives to move CaBis where needed?

Eric Gilliland, who now runs Capital Bikeshare, is interested in ways to create incentives for people to move bikes from full stations to empty ones. What are your ideas? (TheWashCycle)

Wisconsin Giant about to start

Cleveland Park’s longest-running development debate, the Wisconsin Avenue Giant, will soon break ground. A neighbor appeal of the unanimous zoning approval is still pending. (DCmud)

Got $648 million? Want a building?

The Constitution Center building at 7th and D, SW is up for sale. If its price matches its $648 million assessment, the sale could yield $18.8 million in tax revenue—5.8% of DC’s budget gap. (WBJ, Eric Fidler)

Orange lied about gay marriage opposition?

A video shows Vincent Orange claiming DC’s leaders were “not morally fit” because they supported same-sex marriage, then denying the statement in a recent radio interview now that he too claims to support marriage equality. Yet his campaign manager, Douglass Sloan, was endorsed by the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage last year. (Keith Ivey, Jaime Fearer)

Bus driver charged in crash

A former Metrobus driver was arrested for negligent homicide for killing 3 people

hitting 4 people in a taxi in 2008, killing one. A labor arbitration panel had forced WMATA to rehire him. (Examiner)

And…

A Metrobus and its driver hit a pedestrian near 14th and Monroe (WUSA) … While DC is cutting services, MPD is offering police escorts from Dulles to washed-up Hollywood actors (Post) … Several bloggers, both Republicans and Democrats, are considering running for office in Virginia. (Examiner)