Posts tagged Railbanking
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Breakfast links: What took so long?
Federal funding, finally; The customer comes first; Shifting demographics in DC; Bus lane support; Locked up in Lorton; Purple line property rights; Seriously, no parking. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bike hate
Against bikes; A mile in their (cycling) shoes; Tech firms don’t get urbanism; What other people’s parking costs you; How cities can grow up; Alexandria examines moving CSX tracks; Bloomberg focuses on rest of the world; Profit Uber alles?; The fare limit; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Can’t live here
Investors foreclose on homes; Demand overwhelms affordable Arlington building; A fix for Transit Center?; Taxpayers may pay $500 million for rail-trails; US DOT’s strategic plan lacks vision; Traffic congestion starts again; Survey favors biking and walking; And…. Keep reading…
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Railbanking could fix the Anacostia streetcar dilemma
DC has gone back and forth on the planned Anacostia streetcar, first planning to run it in an unused CSX right-of-way, then switching to a street alignment, then moving the alignment. If DC instead took advantage of “railbanking,” they could still run the streetcar on the CSX line, build a streetcar more cheaply than the current street alignment, and give Anacostia a… Keep reading…