Baltimore Ave in College Park needs a complete cars-last overhaul. Busway, bikeways, massive sidewalks, the works. Leave two slow lanes for local cars & trucks, and let the rest use Kenilworth Ave, which is faster anyway. Let the dense high-rise spine be an actual main street.
d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇾I would submit that there is no place in the DMV that has changed as much as College Park and the Route 1 corridor in the past 20 years, more than even DC or Arlington
A few years later when a different congress ends those grants, what will happen to the service they fund? It'll stop running is what. This doesn't just squander opportunities to spend that money on better service. It very likely mortgages the future. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/03/m...
Pointing to Massachusetts’s fare-free experiment, Markey, Pressley press for a $25 billion federal free transit plan - The Boston GlobeThe proposed legislation points to the success of free bus pilots that federal lawmakers say made Massachusetts a “national leader in fare-free transit policy."www.bostonglobe.comState preemption is coming and localities have only themselves to blame.
Cheryl CortFinally approved! 250 affordable apts 1/4 mile from Suitland Metro station! MD Housing Dept joined me in testifying in support. MD housing ombudsman Steven Palmer invoked new law that allows qualified affordable housing projects - like this one - not be blocked by excessive zoning regulations.
USDOT starting over on Union Station renovation plans. Throw out the old renderings. www.enr.com/articles/633...
USDOT Scraps Approved Washington Union Station Expansion PlanFederal officials are replacing years of planning with a public-private strategy, even as key questions about scope, financing and environmental approvals remain unanswered.www.enr.comWe know who the bad drivers are and our leaders choose to let them hurt people.
AruAdditionally, if DC had impounded this car when they caught it obstructing a fire lane on June 9th, this driver may not have had the means to injure a child.
#WMATA modernization update with renderings of platform screen doors. Full pdf: www.wmata.com/content/dam/...
This #PurpleLineMD flyover video has some of the best views of Silver Spring I've ever seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ST...
Found the king of ye olde strippe malls in Herndon. maps.app.goo.gl/nWccY5by4g6Q...
The dream that AVs will just follow road rules safely is proving to be PR vapor, and now is the time for public authorities to step in.
David ZipperWaymo’s robotaxis keep blocking bike lanes. It’s emblematic of a bigger problem. When passenger convenience and public safety conflict, robotaxi companies will favor the former. 🧵 about my guest essay in @driverlessdigest.bsky.social
Feds fund 4th track at L'Enfant VRE station, ensuring continuous 4-tracks along the whole Capitol Hill to Eisenhower Valley rail bottleneck www.bizjournals.com/washington/n...
Ugh I hadn't realized they'd STRIPED the parking spaces on Pennsylvania Avenue. A prime public plaza, stolen from the American people to become a surface parking lot for a couple dozen cars.
Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️Google Earth has uploaded new DC imagery taken on June 12. Shows most of the 250 stuff.
Remember sprawl apologist Randal O'Toole? The scale of his defeat is such that the younger generation of libertarian urbanists hasn't even heard of him, and when they do are aghast at his obvious cognitive dissonance. Proof that things can get better! www.reddit.com/r/yimby/comm...
From the yimby community on Reddit: You guys ever hear of Randal O'Toole?Explore this post and more from the yimby communitywww.reddit.comWhat if... parking were not always the highest priority everywhere all the time no matter what?
Martin Austermuhle"What I fear… we’re going to spend all this money for consultants to tell us what we know: you can’t do everything you want to do and keep the parking," says @chenderson.bsky.social on the Gold Line, which would run along H Street and Benning.