Posts tagged Icc
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Breakfast links: Metro is listening
Metro seeking input; Fewer trains, steady ridership; Tax break incentives; Layoffs at LivingSocial; Falling wages; Not homeless anymore; Carpooling the Uber way; Gallaudet redevelopment advances; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Honoring Barry
Barry memorial set; Gray invokes Barry in land swap; Drop the tolls?; Streetcar Fallout; No taxes for providing parking; What will be DC’s High Line?; New tech at airports; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Barriers to entry
Concert closures; No kids around the office; Lane block; For the birds; Transportation on the table; ICC complete; Suburban crawl; Buses vs. “neighborhood feel”; And…. Keep reading…
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Does Maryland’s statewide planning make big projects harder to build?
Despite years of work and broad community support to build the Purple Line, Maryland’s new Republican governor-elect may kill the project. Does Maryland’s heavily centralized state-level planning make it particularly susceptible to shifts like this one? Most US states delegate transit planning to regional or municipal agencies rather than doing it at the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: United?
Land swap a bad deal?; All about the green; Purple Line worry; Transit ballot success; Taxi boss wants Uber regulations; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Shorter streetcar (for now)
A shorter shortlist; New roads, more cars; MoCo’s first cycle track; Americans support transit; Easy names; Real estate concerns; Jobs drive more mobility; Commercial zoning crash; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Mission Accomplished
Phase One complete; The forgotten trail; A moratorium on the moratorium?; An ICC loyalty program?; Complete streets everywhere?; When gentrifiers become the gentrified; Bikes elevated in Europe; Love is better signage; And…. Keep reading…
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Will Montgomery fund new transit, or build more roads?
Maryland’s gas tax increase means it now has the most transportation funding in a generation. Will Montgomery County spend its share on transit to support its urban centers, or keep building highways? Coupled with existing revenues, the new gas tax has made $15 billion available for transportation, a 52% increase from last year and the most transportation funding in… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Welcome back
Purple Line may impact endangered species; Food trucks receive lotteried spots; Fatal derailment in New York; Bike trains help novices; Finer street grids improve walkability; Germany plans deep emissions cuts; Kolkata cyclists protest ban; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: To the ‘burbs
Wealthy cluster in suburbs after having kids; Biking heads to the ‘burbs; Design places for everyone, not cars; ICC’s broken promises; Tea Party challenges streetcar supporter’s voting rights; More mall at Pentagon City?; Metro back to pre-shutdown normal; New online information hub for DC transportation; And…. Keep reading…