Posts about Glen Echo
And...: Kickstarter funds a handle for carrying a bicycle up stairs. (Atlantic Cities) ... Glen Echo wants the first stop sign traffic camera in Maryland. (Examiner) ... Residents of a Russian city paint the faces of local bureaucrats onto potholes to get repairs more quickly. (thisbigcity) ... The Bike League profiles planner Fionnuala Quinn. (Comment)
And...: A planned balloon for the Hirshhorn Museum will not violate the height limit. (City Paper) ... The Georgetown ANC is overly concerned with cars. (Georgetown Metropolitan) ... Another fight over historic designation of a church could be brewing on Georgia Ave. (City Paper) ... More details on Glen Echo Park's vanished streetcar. (Post) (Comment)
Glen Echo loses last streetcar: NPS sold the last streetcar from Glen Echo Park's front gate to a Cheverly firm that plans on restoring it. NPS says they couldn't raise money to preserve it. At least one resident thinks they didn't reach out to the community enough. (Gazette, Robert Dyer) (Comment)
Preservationists should be "picky": Glen Echo Park is a great example of something worth preserving. But preservationists should carefully pick and choose what to preserve instead of indiscriminately designating everything. (Atlantic Cities) (Comment)
And...: Mayor Fenty wants to charge for inactive liquor licenses, which Georgetown Metropolitan likes but thinks doesn't go far enough ... Douglas Jemal wants to build some rental housing in the Mount Vernon Triangle (WBJ) ... Glen Echo Park may have integrated in 1960, but blacks and whites still largely vacation in different places. (Dvorak) (Comment)
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Bikeshare is a gateway to private biking, not competition
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- Metro policy for refunds after delays falls short, riders say
- M Street cycle track keeps improving, draws church anger
- Prince George's County struggles to get trails right
- O'Malley announces first projects using new gas tax money
Sun May 26
11:00 am Roosevelt Ride in Greenbelt
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10:00 am CSG walking tour of Wheaton
Tue Jun 4
6:30 pm Height limit meeting at NCPC
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