Posts tagged Boulevardize
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National links: State-sponsored sprawl
Transportation planners in Arkansas are telling residents that turning a highway into a boulevard would be unsafe, dive bars are dying out in urban areas, and might Millennials be over cities? Check out what’s happening around the world in transportation, land use, and other related areas! No boulevard for you: There’s a movement to turn Little Rock’s I-30… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Snowmagaindon
Another winter storm is here; Just don’t call it “Silicon _____”; But the Post won’t be a part; Re-timing DC’s traffic lights; How can we get to “Vision Zero”?; The many causes of crime; De Blasio pushes for affordable housing; Fewer urban highways?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Heating up
Heat slows Metro; Pay by phone at 2 Metro lots; Wells wants to cut camera fines; Wards 5 and 8 get largest slice of the pie; Long commutes contain sprawl; Seattle plans for more, quicker density; Syracuse wants to lose “Berlin Wall”; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More, more, more
More night buses, please; VRE gets stuffed; Hoyer hates commuter tax; Big box can be urban, or not; No transit is more dangerous; Standards hamper New Haven; Sunroof for the subway?; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning links: More muck
Yet another investigation; End entitlement, end tickets; The occupation is over; Some parts of DC get whiter; Metro becoming paperless; Bag searches catch nobody; TBD Off Foot; Time for a freeway’s exit; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: 10 years later
Lower Manhattan on the rise; Security barriacades proliferated; Pushing driver identified, defended; Snyder drops suit; Parks relieve stress; Ride Amtrak the luxury way; Almost-freeway replaces freeway; Sadik-Khan’s legacy: Lots of road projects; Boston bits; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Where cycling is valued
Lincoln Park getting ped, bike treatment; Thanks for cycling, rest your foot; More bikes than cars; Burglaries drop in DC; Atlanta, New Haven and the Bronx get the TIGER; Solar’s agenda lights up; Round and round. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Waterfront and beyond
Obama expresses low opinion of DCPS; ‘Boat people’ in DC; Longing for a SE/SW Boulevard; Buses on Roadeo Drive; The new highway lobby; Budget creativity in New York transit; Pricing not so bad after all; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Suburbs change, state DOTs don’t
Not your parents’ suburbs; VDOT is hot, Halsey is cold; Fix Metro funding, and not by pulling it; Transportation Row?; Cost of killing Holden: $4.3 million; Paris “reconquering the Seine”; NYC and Boston like to share; Do cities need more density?. Keep reading…
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6 steps to boulevardize Wheaton’s Viers Mill Road
Viers Mill Road (MD 586) in downtown Wheaton sticks out like a sore thumb from its surroundings. It currently acts as a barrier between the historic walkable urban town and the Westfield Wheaton properties. The road should be a celebrated urban boulevard. Its right-of-way goes back to colonial times, but was rebuilt as a suburban arterial in the 1960’s. … Keep reading…