Posts about Berkeley
I'm an environmentalist but... around the nation: What do Park Slope, Cape Cod and Berkeley have in common? Some of their generally very liberal residents nonetheless oppose green policies. DC's closest analogue is probably Klingle Valley. (NYT) (Comment)
Automated opposition: Behold the "Nimby robot" saving Berkeley from nefarious "special interests"! (via Planetizen, Eric Fidler) (Comment)
Win a Nobel, get free parking (not free transit): Nobel Prize winners at UC Berkeley get a free reserved parking space, including new economics prize winner Oliver Williamson. The space is worth $1,500 a year. Has any winner, in economics or otherwise, ever tried to "cash out" their space by renting it to others, or asking the university to offer this perk in a BART pass or other alternative form? (NPR) (Comment)
Paging Barbara Mikulski: Serious environmentalists know suburban sprawl is a problem. Unfortunately, many wealthy, liberal communities like Berkeley, California and neighboring areas of northern Oakland are still full of those "environmentalists" who believe saving the planet means keeping their downtown areas very low density. (East Bay Express via The Overhead Wire) (Comment)
@ggwash
Successful speed cameras require fair speed limits
- Successful speed cameras require fair speed limits
- Amid scandal, don't lose sight of Gray's policy achievements
- Montgomery plans 160-mile, "gold standard" BRT system
- VDOT ignores own data, pushes widening I-66
- DC's parks are 5th best in the nation, says "Park Score"
- Bethesda gets new but terrible bike racks
- DC's divide need not be black and white
Thu May 24
6:30 pm M Street SE/SW public meeting
Wed May 30
10:00 am Bike-ped safety enforcement hearing
Mon Jun 4
Wed Jun 6
6:30 pm WMATA Riders' Advisory Council
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