Posts tagged Dulles Greenway
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Watch this timelapse of 28 years of Virginia sprawl
The most striking change is vast land development in Loudoun County, but that’s not the only visible growth. What else do you notice in this time lapse of 28 years of Virginia sprawl? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unfair alquiler
Weasel around rent control; Little levees for Metro; It’s not just Metro’s closing time; More green for the Greenway; Making the grade by opting out; Haven for homeless youth; A Brompton is not a bike; Race in rentals; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Gray skies and silver linings
Jury stuck in gray area; Intersection of Doom no more; Budget busts for DC; No relief on the Greenway; Devising density for Brentwood; DC stepping up on schools; McAuliffe on education; Ugly seats. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: School’s out
School woes; No more tolls; Left out; You stay, you pay; Breaking down on blight; Freedom of speech; Coincidence?. Keep reading…
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Watch 28 years of Virginia sprawl
Google’s global 1984-2012 satellite timelapse shows remarkable growth in Northern Virginia. Take a look. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Here we go again
White House floats 2014 budget; MoCo ped enforcement to target drivers, too; Charter preference lives; Area home prices reach historic highs; “ABRA-ization of development”?; Greenway drivers seeing red; Baker gets partial school control; How’s the gender gap?; And…. 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…