Weekend links: Rapturous applause

by Eric Fidler • May 21, 2011 12:56 pm

Swampoodle meets its own end-times. Flickr photo by rockcreek.

DC history takes to the stage: A new play tells the story of Swampoodle, a DC neighborhood settled by Irish immigrants in the 1850s and razed to make way for Union Station. (TBD)

Metro repairs next weekend: Metro will close 4 stations for repairs Memorial Day weekend: Capitol South to Stadium-Armory. (Post)

Bus protects passengers: A Ride On bus driver crashed into a KFC in Silver Spring yesterday morning. Only two people suffered injuries, which were minor. (Post)

Montreal rescues Bixi: On a party-line vote, Montreal's government approved a financial rescue of Bixi, manufacturer of Capital Bikeshare's bike system. Bixi relies heavily on international exports for revenue. (Montreal Gazette)

Ohio debates sprawl: A Smart Growth advocate and a sprawl booster in northeast Ohio debate the realities of Cleveland's sprawl. Both agree that infrastructure investments produce serious economic consequences. (Streetsblog)

They paved a park and put up a parking lot: NYC gave away a neighborhood's baseball fields to build parking garages for Yankee Stadium. But almost nobody is parking in the garages. (Transportation Nation)

Build bike lanes in Queens: A Hunter College paper says New York should build bike lanes in outer areas to help combat the "bike backlash." But outer boroughs are also where the most resistance has come to cycle infrastructure. (Streetsblog)

And...: A community garden sprouts up on Capitol Hill. (Post) ... Review scenes of Bike to Work Day from around America. (Streetsblog) ... A new federal transportation bill is probably not in the cards for this year. (Streetsblog)

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Tags: arts, bicycling, bike lanes, bike sharing, Bike to Work Day, Bixi, Bronx, buses, Canada, Capitol Hill, Cleveland, community gardens, DC, excessive parking, history, links, Maryland, Metro, Montgomery, Montreal, New York, Ohio, parks, Ride On, service disruption, Silver Spring, sprawl, Swampoodle, track work, transportation reauthorization, Union Station, WMATA, Yankee Stadium

Eric Fidler has lived in DC and suburban Maryland his entire life. He likes long walks along the Potomac and considers the L'Enfant Plan an elegant work of art. He also blogs at Left for LeDroit, LeDroit Park's (only) blog of record.

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Cheap windshield perspective shot: A Ride On bus driver crashed into a KFC in Silver Spring yesterday morning.

I'm sure the KFC was walking around like headless chicken not paying attention to the bus. What else do buses have to do to be noticed? They have flashy thingies on top, they have spoken warnings, and still people crash into the bus. Sigh.

by Jasper on May 21, 2011 3:51 pm

"Bus protects passengers" <- NOT TRUE: there were only four people on the bus at the time, to of which went to the hospital.

See: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Bus-Crashes-Into-KFC-in-Silver-Spring-122312094.html

by thedofc on May 21, 2011 5:24 pm

How about a false messiah?

http://cos-mobile.blogspot.com/2008/04/yales-parochialist-messiah-john.html

by Douglas Willinger on May 21, 2011 10:49 pm

I get a kick out of the back-bending this blog does sometimes to promote its message, but this has the be the best ever. A bus crashes into a building sending half the riders to the hospital and GGW says, "Bus protects passengers." Congrats. You are now the Onion.

by Greg on May 22, 2011 4:39 pm

Bus fatality rates are way better than cars. Mostly because buses are usually travelling slowly. Injury rates are about the same as cars - because when the bus does crash, everyone goes flying.

by MLD on May 23, 2011 9:26 am