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Dan Malouff. Urbanism & transportation, WashDC. Planner, professor, longtime @GGWash. Trying for joy rather than doom & dunks; not always succeeding.
Washington, DC Beigetreten Temmuz 2008
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@the_transit_guy Had to have a second round of urban renewal to fix what was effed up by the first round. They did pretty well on take two.
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Objectively, Providence looks far better with the Northeast Corridor capped, and the moving of the river.
Brian Callaci@brian_callaci
New England 1980s urbanism: what if trains, highways AND parking lots
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DC Streetcar: What worked, what didn't, and why.
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This would've been running by now--as a train--if Hogan hadn't canceled it "to cut costs" 11 years ago.
Rinse, repeat.
The Baltimore Banner@BaltimoreBanner
MTA considers pivoting Red Line to rapid bus service instead of light rail, sources say thebanner.com/community/tran…
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This happened after an event in which no one died. Literally nobody.
And I'm not saying it was the wrong decision. Preventing deaths is the right move.
Meanwhile, we tolerate ~120 people dying on US roads every single day and never close a single one of them because of it.
Today in Metro History...@WMATAHistory
On this day, 10 years ago in 2016… The entire Metrorail System was shutdown for emergency repairs and inspections.
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@humantransit Half-baked hypothesis I'd like to see data on:
Cities w/ streets commonly 6 or more lanes wide (incld parking) counterintuitively have lower acceptance of transit lanes, because leaders there never had to learn to make tradeoffs and believe 6 cars lanes is the minimum baseline.
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There's always a guy in Los Angeles telling us the streets are too narrow for bus lanes.
Mike Weyhrich@MikeWeyhrich
@humantransit It follows that route because West Hollywood strongly supports it. Also because it reaches major facilities that would generate traffic. BRT are less likely on the streets you mentioned because they are not wide, making it difficult for many reasons
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Click here for more Purple Line pictures via @ggwash ggwash.org/view/102718/cl…
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This bridge will make it possible to take VRE & Amtrak to National Airport.
Arlington County@ArlingtonVA
Take a peek at the Crystal City to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (CC2DCA) Multimodal concept design! Share your thoughts by March 29 to inform the work we do to complete preliminary design and engineering. #PublicProcess" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">arlingtonva.us/Government/Pro…
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@cocainechippy Some subset of the Virginia state-supported trains, most likely.
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@beyonddc Any idea which routes would likely stop here for Amtrak? Just the regional services?
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I just don’t think this is really true for DC. We have a world class metro system, and I’d guess 95% of residents would rather take the temperature controlled metro during the summer and winter months rather than bike. It’s fine to advocate for expanded bike lanes but we should be realistic about what they will accomplish in a city like DC.
Andrew DeFrank@andrewdefrank
The problem with bike lanes is that we're so close to unlocking SO MANY MORE benefits. Only when you have a truly protected network will people who would otherwise never bike give it a try. There's nothing "responsible" about getting cold feet on the one yard line.
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Vote to name Colorado's future Front Range passenger rail system: ridethefrontrange.com/namethetrain
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Given how wildly successful congestion pricing has been in NY, despite Trump's attempts to bury it, you should probably read the DC congestion pricing report that Bowser tried so hard to bury.
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Metro turns 50 this year. We look back at how DC built one of America’s most iconic train systems, the moments that defined it, and what comes next.
washingtonian.com/2026/03/11/dc-…
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@_michaelstarnes Yes, this is it in a nutshell. Good distillation. McDuffie is a "don't rock the boat" guy in an era where past policies are no longer working and actual pragmatism requires rocking the boat.
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systems level thing we know generally don't work at scale in the long run.
Yet if he is Mr. "Real World" that the biz community should endorse for pragmatism, he's adopting polices that are less evidence based and anti-growth. Like more historic districts.
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I think there is a centrist case for Janeese based on her housing policy being less disruptive to housing production than McDuffie.
McDuffie is relying on a lot of failed policies(stadiums as economic development, larger grants for housing downpayments) which as a
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1997: Modern streetcars first proposed in DC.
2006: H Street tracks funded in budget.
2016: H Street service begins.
2026: The end.
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So the notion that car-dependent Los Angeles is a successful civilization is a NIMBY argument. LA only works as well as it does because so many people who want to live there can't afford to! 10/
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@beyonddc Leon Krier following Camillo Sitte, but, can you plan for a spontaneous order?
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