Posts tagged Street Naming
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Breakfast links: Virginia cuts rental relief program
Virginia Rent Relief Program stops accepting new applications. Metro train strikes, kills man near Brookland station. Fairfax County community divided over Confederate street names. Keep reading…
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Here’s why Arlington’s streets have the names they do
Did you know there’s a rhyme and reason to how Arlington County’s streets are named? Here’s an explanation of Arlington’s street-naming system. Keep reading…
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This is why some of DC’s avenues have states as names
From A Street to Verbena Street and from Half to Sixty-Third, DC’s lettered and numbered streets make it difficult to get lost with their logical progressions. But DC’s transverse diagonal avenues confound everyone from tourists to suburban motorists. Keep reading…
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Which DC state-named avenues are most like the actual states?
DC has 50 roads named for each of the states, plus Puerto Rico Avenue. How do these avenues resemble the states or territories for which they’re named? Keep reading…
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DC will get nine blocks of “shared streets” this fall
A new parking garage just opened for customers of the Maine Avenue Fish Market, and with it comes a little taste of the “shared space” streets that will thread through the soon-to-open District Wharf development in Southwest. Keep reading…
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Here’s how DC’s state-named avenues got their names
Earlier in the summer, we re-visited the reasoning behind why Washington, DC’s street naming system. From A Street to Verbena Street and from Half to Sixty-Third, DC’s lettered and numbered streets make it difficult to get lost with their logical progressions. But DC’s transverse diagonal avenues confound everyone from tourists to suburban motorists. Keep reading…
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Here’s why DC’s streets have the names they do
Earlier this month, we looked at Arlington’s street naming system. There might be even more ingenuity behind the way the District’s streets are named. Washington is partially a planned city. The area north of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers and south of Florida Avenue (originally Boundary Street) is known as the L’Enfant City. This area of Washington was… Keep reading…
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Here’s why Arlington’s streets have the names they do
Did you know there’s a rhyme and reason to how Arlington County’s streets are named? Here’s an explanation of Arlington’s street-naming system. While Arlington was originally part of the District of Columbia (until 1846), it was not incorporated in the plan of Pierre L’Enfant. Unlike its larger neighbor, Arlington’s streets… Keep reading…
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This plan would have ditched DC’s lettered street names
A federal judge proposed renaming DC’s lettered streets after presidents, judges, and cabinet members in 1897, Ghosts of DC explains. If his proposal had taken hold, we might go to movies at the Landmark Ellsworth Street Cinema downtown today. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ticked off
Bethesda “scare tactics”?; Hogan’s low-scoring choices; 123 Greedy Drive; Pullover king; Who you gonna call?; From radio to housing; From hospital to grocery; Parking benefits drive driving; And…. Keep reading…