Posts tagged Dulles
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Breakfast links: Arlington voters support candidates who favor missing-middle development
Arlington voters favor candidates who support the missing-middle proposal. Multimillion-dollar home sales nearly double in DC since 2020. Driver kills two pedestrians heading to polls in Gaithersburg. Keep reading…
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Silver Line Express buses are suspended, making transit options to Dulles even harder
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) is suspending its SIlver Line Express (SLE) bus, which runs between Dulles Airport and the Wiehle-Reston Metro station, beginning this upcoming weekend and lasting through the summer. Keep reading…
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Dulles Airport could have been located in Burke, but neighbors successfully stopped it
Three generations of residents in the region have grown up associating Dulles Airport with its Chantilly location. However, Dulles could have been located in Burke, were it not for a grassroots effort that convinced President Eisenhower to choose another site. Keep reading…
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Fighting climate change starts with numbers: tracking how much carbon we are emitting
The earth is in the throes of a climate crisis and many local governments want to do their part in saving the planet. But first, they have to measure the carbon they need to stop emitting. Keep reading…
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Innovation Center Metro won’t get a corporate name (for now), but a lot is already happening there.
The last new Metro station in Fairfax County before Dulles Airport will be Innovation Center, a somewhat bland name which Metro briefly tried to sell to an unnamed “Fortune 500 Company.” It had to pull back in the face of opposition from Fairfax County officials, but in the meantime, the area is bustling with change. I took a look around. Keep reading…
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Taking a bus across Virginia is now a Breeze
While most bus systems across America face a lack of investment and ridership figures scraping 30-year lows, the latest addition to Virginia’s transportation ecosystem cannot grow fast enough. The Commonwealth’s Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) debuted the Virginia Breeze in November 2017 through a public-private partnership with Megabus. Keep reading…
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These maps illustrate how big Dulles and BWI airports are
Dulles and Baltimore Washington International airports can sometimes feel like they’re not all that close to the District. But what would happen if they were built closer to DC? Like, in DC itself? Keep reading…
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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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Photo Friday: Rain, rain, rain, sun
Do you have a photo of something in the Washington region we might want to feature on GGWash (either in Photo Friday, or in any post on GGWash)? Please consider submitting it via our Flickr pool, or if you're not a Flickr user, email it to us at info@ggwash.org. Keep reading…
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Washington gets a hat trick on Amazon’s HQ2 short list
Amazon wants to construct a second corporate campus, which will be a “full equal” to the existing one in Seattle. Three Washington region bids made the final cut: DC, Northern Virginia, and Montgomery County. Keep reading…