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July 2008

 Parking countdown #6: Parking minimums undermine neighborhood retail (Jul 24th - 1 comment)parking minimums, retail, zoning update
 Useful statistics of the day (Jul 24th - 1 comment)bicycling, pedestrians, transit
 HPRB landmarks Hilton because it's kind of like other landmarks (Jul 24th - 7 comments)ANC, Hilton, HPRB, ...
 DDOT needs a visionary leader (Jul 24th - 2 comments)DDOT
 Parking countdown #7: On-street management solves "spillover" (Jul 23rd - 4 comments)parking minimums, performance parking, zoning update
 No Mo'neme (Jul 23rd - 7 comments)DDOT, NYC DOT
 Bob Novak hits pedestrian, tries to commit hit-and-run (Jul 23rd - 23 comments)pedestrian safety
 Arbitrary parking ratios at work at UMD (Jul 23rd - 6 comments)bike parking, excessive parking, Zipcar
 Breakfast links: suburban changes edition (Jul 23rd - 3 comments)bicycling, excessive parking, The Mall, ...
 Parking countdown #8: Car sharing reduces parking demand (Jul 22nd - 26 comments)parking minimums, Zipcar, zoning update
 Post summaries for older posts and emails? (Jul 22nd - 9 comments)meta
 Norton berates Union Station reps over photography, intermodal plans (Jul 22nd - 19 comments)liberty, photography, Union Station, ...
 I-66 deck never much used (Jul 22nd - 10 comments)excessive parking
 Hyattsville approves sidewalks over objections (Jul 22nd - 2 comments)bike safety, pedestrian safety
 Dinner links: The many faces of government edition (Jul 21st - 11 comments)families, photography, SmarTrip, ...
 Auto-centric "imprinting" and our consumer products (Jul 21st - 13 comments)families, parking minimums, retail, ...
 Parking countdown #9: Removing minimums is proven elsewhere (Jul 21st)parking minimums, zoning update
 Huge deck over I-66 (Jul 21st - 12 comments)freeways, parking
 Now that is a starchitect (Jul 21st - 1 comment)architecture, Le Corbusier
 Arlington waters down, passes accessory dwelling legalization (Jul 20th - 9 comments)accessory dwellings, affordable housing, families
 Takoma: some space is green, garage will be optional (Jul 19th - 5 comments)excessive parking, Smart Growth
 Metro passes will work with SmarTrip (Jul 19th - 12 comments)Metro, SmarTrip
 MoCo "transit-oriented" zoning would encourage non-transit-oriented sprawl (Jul 18th - 6 comments)sprawl
 Afternoon links: Against stupidity edition (Jul 18th - 17 comments)Dulles extension, links, The Mall, ...
 Parking countdown #10: Row houses aren't obsolete after all (Jul 18th - 7 comments)parking minimums, zoning update
 Zoning commission comments thread (Jul 18th - 9 comments)parking, zoning update
 Arlingtonians: speak up for accessory dwellings (Jul 18th - 6 comments)accessory dwellings, affordable housing
 Walk Score launches maps for DC and others (Jul 17th - 21 comments)maps, Walk Score
 Dinner links: Doing it better edition (Jul 16th - 8 comments)bike lanes, links, Nationals stadium, ...
 The ridiculous world of Emergency No Parking signs (Jul 16th - 12 comments)bureaucracy, DDOT, parking
 Council balks at bike lane parking fines (Jul 16th - 9 comments)bike lanes, bike safety, DC Council
 Best places to live... if gas were still $1.50 (Jul 16th - 50 comments)gas prices, sprawl
 Afternoon links: more bike safety and streetcars edition (Jul 15th - 7 comments)bike safety, links, streetcars, ...
 I could have sued MediaBistro for $150,000 (Jul 15th - 11 comments)law, meta
 Connecting communities (or not) (Jul 14th - 34 comments)11th Street bridges, DC Council, FTA, ...
 Streetcar hearing this morning (Jul 14th - 25 comments)streetcars
 Moving (Jul 10th - 7 comments)meta
 A busy day for NCPC (Jul 10th - 17 comments)AFRH, Kennedy Center, NCPC, ...
 We need better loading and performance parking around the Hilton (Jul 10th - 7 comments)ANC, Hilton, loading docks, ...
 Donna Edwards gets on transportation committee (Jul 10th - 4 comments)Congress, transit
 Dinner links: Make BRT not war edition (Jul 9th - 17 comments)links, pedestrian safety, press, ...
 Thoughts on bicycle safety (Jul 9th - 21 comments)bike lanes, bike safety, politics, ...
 ANC, HPRB should reject Hilton landmarking (Jul 9th - 13 comments)ANC, Hilton, loading docks, ...
 Van Ness Walgreens' drive-thru isn't even the worst part (Jul 9th - 33 comments)parking design, retail, zoning update, ...
 Late night links: familiar battle lines edition (Jul 8th - 7 comments)FTA, libraries, RLUIPA, ...
 Bike death was a "right hook"; cyclist broke no laws (Jul 8th - 29 comments)bike safety
 Dinner links: You should go to Monday's hearings edition (Jul 8th)buses, Metro, streetcars, ...
 Ask the Ward 2 Council candidates (Jul 8th - 14 comments)politics
 Roads do not pay for themselves (Jul 8th - 10 comments)economics, freeways, transit, ...
 Bicyclist killed by garbage truck at 20th & Conn. (Jul 8th - 31 comments)bike safety
 The parking front of the commuter "war" (Jul 8th - 14 comments)parking, press, Washington Post
 2030 track map (Jul 7th - 10 comments)maps, Metro
 Breakfast links: People aren't so dumb edition (Jul 7th - 2 comments)Falkland Chase, pedestrian safety, suburban sensibility, ...
 Transparently slanted Post article pits suburbanites against the city (Jul 6th - 33 comments)Center Leg Freeway, pedestrian safety, Washington Post, ...
 DDOT calls a time out (Jul 4th - 13 comments)buses, DDOT
 Adams Morgan ANC narrowly endorses less parking at Hilton (Jul 3rd - 20 comments)ANC, Hilton, parking minimums, ...
 Median proposed for Conn. Ave. streetscape (Jul 3rd - 23 comments)Connecticut Avenue, pedestrians, street furniture, ...
 Lower speed limits, wider lanes won't fix the GW Parkway (Jul 2nd - 14 comments)freeways, GW Parkway
 "Mall people" and Montgomery County's downtowns (Jul 2nd - 4 comments)density, historic preservation, retail
 Smart Growth's core debate (Jul 1st - 22 comments)Smart Growth
 The neighborhood retail conundrum (Jul 1st - 23 comments)retail
 Lunch links: Building one freeway, tearing one down edition (Jul 1st - 2 comments)ICC, retail, zoning update, ...
 Boston's new planner not a fan of starchitecture (Jul 1st - 6 comments)architecture
 Breakfast links: thanks for emailing tips edition (Jul 1st - 48 comments)curb cuts, environment, parking design, ...

June 2008

 Schrag on Kojo (Jun 30th - 10 comments)affordable housing, gentrification, Metro
 DC USA's idea of drainage (Jun 30th - 5 comments)DC USA, environment
 OP proposing neighborhood-based zoning (Jun 30th - 3 comments)density, housing, zoning update
 Brunch links: times they are a-changin' edition (Jun 29th - 5 comments)development, gas prices, links, ...
 Breakfast links: governmental lameness edition (Jun 28th - 6 comments)FTA, libraries, pedestrian safety, ...
 Catalyzing strip-mall sprawl into a mixed-use boulevard (Jun 27th - 7 comments)development, pedestrians, Smart Growth
 DC allows community uses, keeps parking minimums for closed schools (Jun 27th - 4 comments)parking minimums, schools
 Blue Line in I-395 right-of-way? (Jun 27th - 22 comments)Blue Line, Center Leg Freeway, Metro
 Now those are bulb-outs (Jun 27th - 3 comments)bulb-outs, DDOT, pedestrian safety
 Breakfast links: Interesting ideas from the past edition (Jun 27th - 12 comments)links, streetcars, The Mall, ...
 "Anytime" includes campaign time (Jun 26th - 8 comments)parking
 DDOT suggests cutting 395 to Mass Ave (Jun 26th - 14 comments)11th Street bridges, Center Leg Freeway, Southeast Freeway, ...
 HPRB delays Hilton, landmarks HUD and Tax Court (Jun 26th - 2 comments)Brutalism, historic preservation, L'Enfant Plaza
 Bus rules: let's call a time out (Jun 26th - 12 comments)buses, DDOT
 "Hanging on to the last vestiges of a car-based economy" (Jun 26th - 6 comments)Clean Air Compliance Fee, environment, free parking
 Fairfax fills open space between strip malls with another strip mall (Jun 26th - 16 comments)bad streets, sprawl
 MoCoCo picks developer over transit-oriented activist (Jun 26th - 16 comments)politics, Smart Growth
 Testimony on parking tax loophole (Jun 25th - 6 comments)Clean Air Compliance Fee, free parking
 Mid-morning coffee links: tragedy of the commons edition (Jun 25th - 3 comments)congestion pricing, links, pedestrian safety, ...
 Testify to close the free-parking tax loophole (Jun 24th - 27 comments)Clean Air Compliance Fee, environment, free parking
 Optical illusions slow drivers (Jun 24th - 5 comments)traffic
 Breakfast links: upset neighbors edition (Jun 24th - 2 comments)Beltway widening, HOT lanes, parking
 Why was Arlington so ahead of its time? (Jun 23rd - 31 comments)Metro, Smart Growth
 Let's write a better historic preservation law, part 1 (Jun 23rd - 7 comments)historic preservation
 Burtonsville residents debate mixed-use and "undesirables" (Jun 23rd - 10 comments)density, development, racism, ...
 Where should the buses go instead? (Jun 23rd - 17 comments)buses, DDOT
 Landmark one curved egg crate, not both (Jun 23rd - 10 comments)Brutalism, Hilton, historic preservation
 DC2NY says DDOT rules will kill their business (Jun 23rd - 15 comments)buses, DDOT
 Breakfast links: transportation across the nation edition (Jun 23rd)parks, traffic, transit
 Unnecessary parking and a curb cut (Jun 23rd)curb cuts, excessive parking
 Brunch links: everyone else already linked to it edition (Jun 22nd - 13 comments)environment, links, Smart Growth
 The first metropolitan President (Jun 22nd - 10 comments)politics, transit
 Adams Morgan intersection update (Jun 21st - 5 comments)18th Street, DDOT, pedestrians
 Wells concerned about parking in bike lanes (Jun 20th - 6 comments)bike lanes
 Pedestrian safety: Fines? Lights? Two-way streets? (Jun 20th - 27 comments)15th Street, pedestrian safety, traffic lights
 More underutilized parking in Columbia Heights (Jun 20th - 9 comments)DC USA, excessive parking
 Church anti-preservation bill comes back (Jun 20th - 1 comment)historic preservation, RLUIPA, Third Church
 Dinner links: Kansas outdoes everyone else edition (Jun 19th - 5 comments)bike lanes, cars, FTA, ...
 Why we need historic preservation (Jun 19th - 17 comments)historic preservation
 Awful green barricade: the answer (Jun 19th - 9 comments)architecture, quizzes, zoning update, ...
 Support two-way 15th Street today (Jun 19th - 17 comments)15th Street, one-way streets, pedestrian safety, ...
 TPB: VPL + BRT = A-OK? (Jun 19th - 11 comments)buses, congestion pricing, MWCOG
 Banishing buses to L'Enfant (Jun 18th - 21 comments)buses, DDOT
 Bad architecture of the day, and a quiz (Jun 18th - 21 comments)architecture, bad streets, quizzes
 Breakfast links: streets for people edition (Jun 18th)high-speed rail, links, NYC DOT, ...
 Families, community, and the West End (Jun 17th - 13 comments)density, families, libraries, ...
 Chait wants to mow down some endangered species (Jun 17th)Klingle Road
 Plus ça change, NIMBYs (Jun 17th - 5 comments)NIMBYism, retail
 Our transportation priorities (Jun 17th - 18 comments)Dulles extension, ICC, pedestrians, ...
 From Social Safeway to Sidewalk Safeway (Jun 16th - 8 comments)17th Street, retail
 Which of these things is not like the others? (Jun 16th - 3 comments)Dulles extension, traffic
 Housing and a sense of place for the West End (Jun 13th - 14 comments)ANC, development, libraries, ...
 New walkable Giant vs. "late commercial moderne" (Jun 13th - 6 comments)historic preservation, retail, Smart Growth
 WalkScore heat maps (Jun 13th - 10 comments)maps, Walk Score
 More bike lanes in Petworth (Jun 13th)bike lanes, DDOT
 Kennedy Center plaza back on the table? (Jun 13th - 5 comments)Kennedy Center, public spaces
 Needed: leadership and management at DDOT (Jun 13th - 3 comments)15th Street, 17th Street, 18th Street, ...
 Subscribing to comments is fixed (Jun 12th)meta
 Greater Baltimore & Washington Transit Future pocket version (Jun 12th - 13 comments)commuter rail, Metro, streetcars
 The man who would fix 17th (Jun 12th)17th Street, retail
 Donna Edwards: for better buses, against National Harbor (Jun 12th)buses, politics
 Are Maryland drivers the "devil incarnate"? (Jun 12th - 4 comments)15th Street, one-way streets
 This bus stops here only during full moons and days with an 'r' in the name (Jun 12th - 9 comments)buses, Metro
 HUD building up for landmarking (Jun 12th - 23 comments)architecture, Brutalism, L'Enfant Plaza, ...
 Roll call vote on Amtrak (Jun 12th)Amtrak, Congress, politics
 House passes Amtrak bill (for real this time) (Jun 11th - 4 comments)Congress, Metro
 What would you like to see? (Jun 11th - 6 comments)libraries, meta, retail
 Followup emails (Jun 11th - 1 comment)meta
 Look at those streetcars (Jun 11th - 1 comment)public spaces, streetcars
 House passes Amtrak pre-bill rule (Jun 11th - 7 comments)Amtrak, politics
 Connolly wins (Jun 11th - 2 comments)politics
 WMATA working on SmartTrip-driver's license combo (Jun 11th - 5 comments)Metro, technology
 MoCoCo on library parking: is Don Praisner senile? (Jun 10th - 5 comments)free parking, libraries
 Making upper Georgia Avenue a great street (Jun 10th - 4 comments)parking, retail, streetcars, ...
 Bush threatening veto of Amtrak funding (Jun 10th - 4 comments)Amtrak, Congress, politics
 This Modern World on gas prices (Jun 10th - 2 comments)gas prices, humor
 Transit and bicycling Google maps that Washington still lacks (Jun 10th - 9 comments)bicycling, Google, Metro
 Park(ing) at Sherman and Park (Jun 10th - 6 comments)parking, parks
 Cheers and jeers across America (Jun 10th - 2 comments)freeways, links, parking minimums, ...
 The conservative case for streetcars (Jun 10th)buses, conservatism, streetcars
 Capitol Hill parking problems from Shoup misapplication? (Jun 9th - 1 comment)Donald Shoup, Eastern Market, performance parking
 Maryland: stiffing bikes easy, stopping wasteful roads hard (Jun 9th - 2 comments)bicycling, ICC
 Cooling community in Petworth (Jun 9th - 1 comment)gentrification
 VA-11 candidates on traffic, transit, and density (Jun 9th - 2 comments)Dulles extension, gas prices, Purple Line, ...
 Demolition by neglect (Jun 9th - 9 comments)historic preservation
 Gateway Market plans inward-facing retail (Jun 9th - 4 comments)bad streets, Florida Market, retail
 1920s Boy Scouts kicked people out of streets (Jun 8th - 5 comments)pedestrians
 Weekend reading (Jun 7th - 8 comments)buses, links, parking, ...
 Google announces "mixed-use" campus, may be just more sprawl (Jun 6th - 6 comments)Google, sprawl
 Carper: "Public transportation has saved Americans" (Jun 6th - 3 comments)Congress, environment, transit
 Suburban sensibility in Silver Spring submission (Jun 6th - 7 comments)Falkland Chase, Smart Growth, suburban sensibility
 Alexandria still into Potomac Yards station (Jun 5th - 3 comments)Metro
 Silver Spring taxidermy (Jun 5th - 5 comments)affordable housing, Falkland Chase, historic preservation, ...
 Life, liberty and library parking (Jun 5th - 1 comment)free parking, libraries
 The Blue Line and downtown jobs (Jun 5th - 25 comments)Blue Line, maps, Metro
 New parking recommendations released (Jun 4th)bike parking, parking minimums, zoning update
 Does "moving" sound like "removing" with an Oklahoma accent? (Jun 4th - 2 comments)freeways, Whitehurst
 What's up with the Purple Line (Jun 4th - 5 comments)bicycling, Purple Line
 Oops, we forgot the transit (Jun 4th - 6 comments)sprawl, transit
 The many definitions of a "modern library" (Jun 4th - 11 comments)architecture, libraries, Smart Growth
 How do economists react to a parking post? (Jun 4th - 1 comment)performance parking
 Klingle Road dead, dead, dead; bike trail alive (Jun 3rd - 1 comment)bicycling, Klingle Road, parks
 Wisconsin Ave Giant is a great project (Jun 3rd - 10 comments)development, parking, retail, ...
 Labor successfully waters down noise bill (Jun 3rd - 9 comments)DC Council, politics, public spaces
 Union Station latest photo flashpoint (Jun 3rd - 4 comments)liberty, photography, security, ...
 Where do DC's at-large Councilmembers live? (Jun 3rd - 5 comments)DC Council, politics, public spaces
 A bicycle but no racks at Benning Library (Jun 3rd - 7 comments)architecture, bike parking, libraries
 18th Street Dupont reconstruction off? (Jun 3rd)18th Street, DDOT
 The uninspiring WWII memorial (Jun 2nd - 17 comments)The Mall
 Crossable intersections in Adams Morgan (Jun 2nd - 7 comments)18th Street, DDOT, pedestrians
 Non-conforming goats (Jun 2nd - 3 comments)planning
 Fort Rotten design (Jun 2nd - 4 comments)bad streets, development, parking
 The whirlpool of induced demand (Jun 2nd - 10 comments)induced demand, traffic, transit

May 2008

 West Coast cheers and jeers (May 31st)housing, links, taxis, ...
 Visions of an energy-efficient future (May 31st - 4 comments)gas prices,