Posts tagged Whitehurst
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Breakfast links: Leaders speak up
Foxx says no to FRA; How to handle housing; PAC on ANC; Key Bridge rehab; Downtown parking changes; I-66 complaints; Hotel still happening; Street design, from above. Keep reading…
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Students fix Foggy Bottom’s waterfront problems
Lydia DePillis’s constant attendance at community meetings turned up a fascinating plan from the Catholic University Urban Design Studio to improve some of Foggy Bottom’s biggest flaws: the mess of freeways between the neighborhood and the waterfront. A professor and team of students came up with the vision, which has no funding but which DePillis reports they… Keep reading…
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Family fun in the Flickr pool
Thanks to everyone who joined the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool and submitted photos! Here are a few of our favorites this week. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Choice of spots
Off the bus, nowhere to go; Spots for trails?; Hit and runs and intentional hits; Mayoral candidates want our vote; We’re bohemian, and have Thai; Too many cars; And…. Keep reading…
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Support streetcars at Georgetown ANC meeting tonight
ANCs across DC have been weighing in on streetcars recently, with some opposing streetcars with any wires in their communities and otherswelcoming streetcars even with a wire on some streets. Tonight, Georgetown weighs in at its ANC meeting at 6:30pm, when the ANC considers both the planned streetcars on K Street under the Whitehurst and the “planned to be studied”… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: National trends, local impacts
How is your county doing with the Census?; More development happening in cities; Exurbs on the rebound or a dead cat bounce?; Better cars better, but not salvation; What’s Current; Thanks… I think. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Semi-secret plans
Whitehurst teardown back?; Secret plan to fix Metro today; Even more bike lane details; Know any great candidates?; Gaithersbungle looms; 2 hours isn’t enough; More food for all. Keep reading…
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Silverman demagoguing on Whitehurst
Cary Silverman is sending a postcard to voters in Foggy Bottom and Georgetown promoting misguided notions about traffic. Many people believe that more roads = less traffic and fewer roads = more traffic, but that’s not true; converting a freeway to a boulevard usually makes about half the traffic disappear, with the boulevard usually able to handle the rest. But Silverman… Keep reading…