Posts by Joey Katzen — Guest Contributor
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I wish this were… an active plaza in Ballston
Could an inviting urban plaza take the place of a fallow plot by the Ballston public garage? Keep reading…
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Ask GGW: The Glebe Road curve
Reader M asks why an Arlington County road has a very strange curve that looks like a part of an interchange that was never completed: I drive on this section of Glebe Road often, near the Chain Bridge and wonder why the curve was designed this way. I tried researching for some sort of unbuilt interchange, but had no luck. Do you know any GGWers who are good at sniffing this stuff out? Keep reading…
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NPS hasn’t asked its concessionaire about bike sharing
The National Park Service hasn’t spoken to Guest Services, Inc., the concessionaire that runs bike rentals on the Mall, to determine if they’d object to placing Capital Bikeshare stations on Park Service land. The Capital Bikeshare service “glaringly” omits the large swaths of Washington and Arlington controlled by the National Park Service. Keep reading…
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Could carbon credits fund bike-sharing systems?
A few weeks ago at an angel-investment presentation, I had the fortune of meeting the founders of Philadelphia-based CityRyde, bike-sharing consultants who are launching a platform called “Inspire” to facilitate the exchange of carbon credits between bike-sharing agencies and carbon producers (or investors). What the guys at CityRyde (a competitor of MetroBike,… Keep reading…
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Can a toll serve as an effective growth boundary in Virginia?
It’s a commonly accepted axiom among many of the contributors of this blog that freeway tolls help drivers internalize the cost of their housing and transportation decisions. Could Virginia use tolls as a substitute for a statutory growth boundary? Tolls are one item in the cost-shifting bucket sometimes available to governments to affect demand, along with “vehicle-miles… Keep reading…
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Finally: an express bus from Leesburg to Tysons
Although Loudoun County has been operating an express bus service for a number of years to Arlington and Washington from major population centers in the County, there has been no service to what is quite possibly the most popular commuter destination from within the County’s borders: Tysons Corner. Luckily, this changes on June 21st when the Loudoun–Tysons Express… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Tragedy of the anti-commons
The Grinch stole playtime; Green line severed; Declining ridership means cuts; Tougher penalties for phones than booze?; Franklin School RFP; Another driverless car. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Suburbs aren’t all the same
Not a safe route yet; Les banlieues américaines; Farmer’s Market … to go; The obvious (finally); Arlington an oasis; Race to the bottom; Transit planning in a recession. Keep reading…
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Breakfast Links: Narrowing, tunnelling, and bulldozing streets
Suburbs going multi-modal: Fresh off the heels of Virginia’s cul-de-sac ban, VDOT plans to convert two lanes of Reston’s Lawyers Road into two bike lanes, plus a center turn lane. The Reston Association has also recommended reducing the speed limit from 45 to 35 miles per hour. For context, as recently as 1967, Lawyers Road was a one-lane dirt path. (Restonian,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast Links: The cyclists are naked and rolling
Rolling stops in Loudoun: The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office ticketed a number of cyclists last weekend who were participating in a muscular sclerosis charity event. In defending the citations for riders in the event who had slowed to 1 mph at a stop sign, Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson noted that “[t]hey forget the fact that they’re sharing that road with… Keep reading…