Posts tagged Sacramento
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National links: Sacramento moves forward with plans to get rid of single family zoning
Facing a deepening housing shortage, one California city is looking to get rid of its most space-intensive zoning designation. What’s in the cards for post-pandemic travel? Dallas wants to improve pedestrian mobility. Keep reading…
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DC Streetcar ridership is… actually not bad
The DC Streetcar is drawing a decent number of riders, so far. Compared to other US light rail and streetcar systems, it ranks near the middle in terms of riders per mile of track. It’s slightly above average, neither horrible nor spectacular. Keep reading…
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Cities worldwide are building beautiful, landmark pedestrian and bicycle bridges. Could Georgetown be next?
A new bicycle and pedestrian bridge may one day connect Georgetown with Roosevelt Island. Some recent bridges like this in other cities have become iconic landmarks. Could DC do the same and compensate for its freqently lackluster bridge designs? Here are a few of the world’s great pedestrian bridges. Keep reading…
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A city can be diverse but its neighborhoods may still not be. (And DC scores poorly on both measures.)
How do you measure a city’s diversity? If a city has a lot of different racial and ethnic groups in their own segregated sections, is that diverse? A blog called priceonomics recently ranked major American cities on diversity by looking at the percentage of major racial and ethnic groups within the city’s limits. The District of Columbia came in 21st, slightly less… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Power
Few would pay to bury wires; More power; Library gets sunny; WMATA counts bikes; Planes get on collision course; Where light rail is king; Finally getting built; And…. Keep reading…
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The high cost of bad parking arguments
Why parking is not like ice cream; The high cost of Rockville garages; The high cost of free evening parking; Vote Wonder Woman. Keep reading…