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Don’t worry if you can’t read GGW every day, you’ll still be able to catch all our posts at a glance with Greater Greater Week in Review.

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Why don’t people obey the rules when they ride a bike?: On a recent Saturday night, about 11 pm, I was biking home while the wind-chill whipped at 10 degrees. Despite the “No Turn on Red” sign at 15th and New Hampshire and Florida and W Streets, I turned. There was no traffic, I couldn’t feel my face, and I just wanted to get home. Read more »

Metro ponders new tunnels and connections: Before long, the Metro system will be bursting at the seams, besides those spots where trains are already stuffed to the gills. What can we do? To figure out some solutions, Metro’s planning department has been analyzing many different alternatives for fixing the capacity bottlenecks. Read more »

Thundersnow traffic illustrates east-west divide: As thundersnow passed through the DC area right at rush hour, we were able to see the nadir of bad traffic via Google Maps. The map is color-coded based on speed: green for fast, yellow for slow, red for very slow. The red-and-black striped areas are probably where car traffic has stopped entirely. Read more »

Map shows most popular Capital Bikeshare trips : Arlington’s CommuterPageBlog has an awesome map showing Capital Bikeshare usage. The darker the line, the more trips are made between the two stations that line connects. Read more »

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Why all the wailing over the Union Station railyard project?: The Committee of 100, Capitol Hill Restoration Society, and other groups which habitually oppose things in DC have been fighting the project over the Union Station railyards on the grounds that you will be able to see the building over historic Union Station. Read more »

What Metro could be in 2100, if our priorities were different: Reader thisisbossi created a fantasy Metro map with a LOT of lines: Read more »

A DC United stadium is likely to be truly urban: Last week, Erik posted that DC United is in discussions about small sites in the District for a 20-25,000 seat soccer stadium. Read more »

Virginia Republican pursuing vendetta against Arlington for not wanting to be a “giant interchange”: DC isn’t the only place in the area where a Republican legislative majority in a large, mostly exurban and rural geographic area is threatening serious budget blows against a small, Democratic-leaning, urban jurisdiction. Read more »

On-campus housing not the answer for Georgetown: In “GU takes student ghetto approach to housing undergrads,” Ken Archer argues that Georgetown University has created a “student ghetto” by failing to guarantee undergraduates four years of on-campus housing. Read more »

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Matt Johnson has lived in the Washington area since 2007. He has a Master’s in Planning from the University of Maryland and a BS in Public Policy from Georgia Tech. He lives in Dupont Circle. He’s a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and is an employee of the Montgomery County Department of Transportation. His views are his own and do not represent those of his employer.