The Kojo Nnamdi show (with Kojo himself on vacation) is talking up a storm on transportation issues. Last week, it was a segment on Smart Growth featuring Roger Lewis, CSG‘s Stewart Schwartz, and others. Lewis explains how Smart Growth is about focusing development around an “armature” of transportation infrastructure, and how the original “wedges” plan for the DC region, of dense radial corridors with lower density and open space in between, fell short as jobs stopped all being in the center city; metropolitan development should organize in a “lattice” or “cobweb” instead.

Barack Obama is starting to cave on his energy leadership by agreeing to some drilling (which will not solve the problem and only prolong our oil dependence), but his energy plan is still much better than McCain’s. Track Twenty-Nine compares the candidates’ energy plans.

The Post’s editorial board likes the last bullet point in Obama’s plan, a nod to Smart Growth. “The changes in behavior brought on by the current gas crunch must be the start of fulfilling the promise of more livable and sustainable communities,” they write.

Now if only they’d stop whining about each change that makes more livable communities but inconveniences some suburban driver. Am I ever going to stop needling the Post about their “war on pedestrians” article? Who knows?

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.