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Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space: FTA report on WMATA safety failures should surprise no one

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Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space. Friday, June 19, 2015. FTA report on WMATA safety failures should surprise no one. People work at the scene where two transit trains were involved in a crash in Washington June 22, 2009. Two Washington, D.C., subway trains collided during the Monday afternoon rush hour, killing four people and injuring 70 in a mass of tangled metal. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas (UNITED STATES TRANSPORT SOCIETY. Talking a lot, but not really saying anything. Missing the real issue about WMATA.

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Will preservation be a tool of blatant anti-development? - Greater Greater Washington

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And it can be greater." width=535 height=60/. Will preservation be a tool of blatant anti-development? Bull; March 10, 2011. Opponents of a redevelopment project at Colonel Brooks' Tavern next to the Brookland Metro are turning to historic preservation as their latest anti-building tactic. Photo from Brookland Avenue. That ANC 5A has nominated Colonel Brooks' Tavern and the adjacent houses to be designated as historic. The timing of this is quite suspect, since a Planned Unit Development (PUD). Unfortuna...

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Dupont will get a new park over Connecticut Avenue - Greater Greater Washington

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And it can be greater." width=535 height=60/. Dupont will get a new park over Connecticut Avenue. Bull; June 3, 2014. Where Connecticut Avenue dives under Dupont Circle, there is a block-long space between Q Street and the circle which residents have long dreamed of covering over to create a park. Now, that is likely to actually happen. Image by M.V. Jantzen. Local architect John Jedzinak created a concept sketch for what a park might look like. Feldstein emphasized that this is not an official desig...

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Imagine, DC: Imagine the Green Line North Extension

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Monday, October 26, 2009. Imagine the Green Line North Extension. Monday night, Prince George's County voted on its transportation master plan update. The master plan calls for the creation, extension, or widening of several highways. The master plan did, however, propose many transit improvements. View Green Line Extension. In a larger map. Baltimore Avenue and Powder Mill Road). Baltimore Avenue at Muirkirk Road). Cherry Lane between Baltimore Avenue and MD 197). Main Street at First Street). Congress ...

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Maryland's MARC and Virginia's VRE talk about integrating commuter rail service - Greater Greater Washington

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And it can be greater." width=535 height=60/. Maryland's MARC and Virginia's VRE talk about integrating commuter rail service. Bull; May 16, 2014. Officials from the MARC and VRE commuter rail systems started discussing how to run trains from one state to the other through DC, instead of stopping all trains at Union Station, NBC reports. This is an important step on a long road (or track? Toward a better regional transit system. Photo by Matt' Johnson on Flickr. VRE uses low platforms. And its cars can o...

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Moving to alexblock.net | city block - now at http://www.alexblock.net

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City block – now at http:/ www.alexblock.net. Laquo; No free lunches. Moving to alexblock.net. Apologies for the light posting recently – I’ve been setting up a new domain for the blog over at alexblock.net. I’m working on a re-direct solution, but for now, please update your bookmarks, permalinks, RSS subscriptions, etc. All of the content over here is already archived over there. This entry was posted on November 9, 2009 at 8:02 pm and is filed under Meta. Feed You can leave a response.

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Discovering Urbanism: Edward Murray Bassett and the Origins of Zoning

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Wednesday, May 23. Edward Murray Bassett and the Origins of Zoning. The following is a summary of and reflection on Zoning by Edward Murray Bassett. Published by the National Municipal League in 1922. After writing the first comprehensive zoning ordinance for New York City six years earlier, Bassett had become the preeminent authority. In the U.S. On this emerging land use tool. This is his case to cities for adopting a zoning code. He asserted that skyscrapers were probably not a sound investment in the...

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Old Urbanist: Friday Read: A History of Street Standards

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Friday, May 6, 2011. Friday Read: A History of Street Standards. During the past few weeks I've been taking advantage of the proximity of my neighborhood library. To search out published articles on topics of relevance to this blog. To follow Monday's post, I'd like to bring readers' attention to a 1995 paper. Designed to awe and impress regardless of cost or utility, often as an expression of the political power of emerging centralized nation-states). Another point is that the economic wastefulness of t...

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why.i.hate.dc: Metro should end its "Safety Theatre"

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Metro should end its "Safety Theatre". Following the 6/22 crash, Metro management took some steps to help restore confidence in the safety of the rail system. These included switching train operation to manual mode, and placing Series 1000 railcars in the center of trains. As the NTSB hearings on Capitol Hill wrap-up, it's becoming clearer that both. Of these measures amount to little more than safety theatre. Wrote that Metro officials admitted the action was little more than a public relations effort.