Posts tagged with 'United States'
The Street Food Solution
The Street Food Solution
I’m told that D.C. is a very walkable city. I hear this all the time in fact. And in one way, it’s true. Distances are relatively short, sidewalks are broad and so on. But that only makes it a good ...
DDOT to Permit Valet Spaces
DDOT to Permit Valet Spaces
The Examiner is reporting that DDOT has established a new set of guidelines for providing valet parking from on-street parking spaces. Where there was previously no organized permitting system, now businesses may rent 20 feet of street for 50 cents ...
Virginia is the New California
Virginia is the New California
This past weekend turned out to have an Asian food in Fairfax County theme. On Saturday, the 24-hour Korean barbecue joint Honey Pig Gooldaegee in Annandale and on Sunday a trip to the Eden Center, the Vietnamese mall in Falls ...
18-Storey Building Planned for Bethesda
18-Storey Building Planned for Bethesda
In re the great height restrictions debate: this is what happens when you don’t allow tall buildings in the District. In addition to demands for building certain numbers of units which can be distributed up or out, there is also ...
Who Saved the Electric Car?
Who Saved the Electric Car?
Via BeyondDC’s newsfeed, I see that Baltimore may be introducing an electric car-sharing program. This is a great idea. You often hear about how the reason electric cars will never be popular is that they’ll require an entirely new energy ...
You Can't Cure Congestion Only on the Weekend
You Can't Cure Congestion Only on the Weekend
Over at the Atlantic, they’ve given Conor Friedersdorf the project of writing about “Ideas.” This has meant a lot of posts about good ideas and an ongoing discussion of the “Worst Idea Ever.” For the latter, I highly recommend his ...
Design a New Bus Map
Design a New Bus Map
I had the very good luck to be invited to the Nationals-Red Sox game Tuesday night and was trying to figure out the best way of getting to Navy Yard from Union Station without using the Red Line. I first ...
Priority Bus Conference Notes
I spent yesterday at a fantastic conference on priority buses in the Washington area. Organized by the TPB and the Federal Transit Administration, we got to hear from transit officials from across the country about what innovations their areas have ...
DC Density: Bigger, Broader, or Faster?
DC Density: Bigger, Broader, or Faster?
There’s an absolutely great debate going on about the height limit in DC right now, which I’ll provide a quick summary of before entering into. Matt Yglesias started it in this post, where he argued that the best way to ...
Budgets Cuts and Vicious Cycles
Budgets Cuts and Vicious Cycles
After the Red Line, the big local news story today is the District’s huge budget shortfall. As reported in the City Paper and the Post, the District is short $340 million over the next two years, largely due to low ...
Red Line
It’s hard to do too much thinking about transportation in D.C. today. All I have to say on the Red Line crash is to send our prayers to all those on the train, as well as their families and friends. ...
Purple Line BRT vs. LRT, Round 2
Today’s post on BRT for the Purple Line seems to have sparked a flurry of anger on Twitter. We’ve got: theoverheadwireAbsolutely not. Trojan toll road RT @TheCityFix: Should Purple Line be BRT? Yes, if done correctly.https://bit.ly/aFpCL theoverheadwire@TheCityFix Not to mention ...
D.C.'s "State of the Air": F
D.C.'s "State of the Air": F
Next American City has started a series of stories on local air quality, which is an incredibly important issue. This first post analyzes this years “State of the Air” report, put out by the American Lung Association and points out ...
BRT vs. Light Rail for the Purple Line
BRT vs. Light Rail for the Purple Line
UPDATE: BeyondDC informs me by e-mail that, although you wouldn’t know it, this vote implies at the very least that Maryland has a strong preference for light rail, as that’s what the state asked the TPB to model the pollution ...
Montgomery County Moves to Urbanize
Montgomery County Moves to Urbanize
The BeyondDC newsfeed yesterday just blew my mind. Of yesterday’s five headlines, each and every one is about some part of Montgomery County embracing a more sustainable, more urban land use pattern. Let’s go through them one by one: Read ...
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