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alex block 🚅
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alex block 🚅
@alex_block
cities, transportation, and other intermittent discussion. live every week like its infrastructure week. All opinions are my own
Washington, DC Katılım Nisan 2010
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@MWAAHQ the July Board meeting agenda has an incorrect attachment for item 11.1 for the Dulles master plan. The link is for medical benefits.
Can you post the correct attachment?
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Most of all in government, I want competence
My preference would have been Desantis ... but I likely would have abstained if Josh Shapiro had been the nominee.
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I'm a theologically conservative Christian and a registered Democrat (Philly has closed primaries for local elections)
In 2012, I voted for Romney
In 2016, I voted for Clinton
In 2020, I left it blank
This year, I voted for Trump
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@MusserRyan @ArmandDoma Yes and everyone still posting on Vichy Twitter is part of that problem.
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@alex_block @ArmandDoma Man I keep trying Threads and Bluesky (both posting and browsing) and can’t find anything close to what’s here still. I continue to try but neither is there yet
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@MusserRyan @ArmandDoma Stop posting here; do your part to solve the collective action problem.
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European subway/metro stations often lack overhead canopies/cover. In the US, conversely, even in some of our drier climates you almost always have canopies. Why? Abundance of escalator maintainers in Copenhagen?
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@ChristoSilvia @RAILMag @otree38 The main reason for the Silver Line is to serve 1) Tysons, and 2) Dulles. The W&OD serves neither.
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The fact that Phase 2 of the Silver Line was built for 65 and not 75 is upsetting
claire@floppatakes
check out what the latest pdf from the metro board features! while speeds have largely been limited to 59 for decades (besides the 65 segments on the outer silver and green lines), metro expects to raise them this year to the tracks' design speed, which is what's on this map:
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You really shouldn’t post here at Vichy Twitter any more.
Grab a code, come over to the butterfly app.
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@harrisonfinberg @MarketUrbanism Well, to be fair, in DC, the teams are doing just that as Virginia offers billions in public subsidy to move.
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I would say that this is an argument for allowing the Sixers to move to a highly transit-accessible location in Center City, but I get the sense this tweet was meant to convey the opposite
Inga Saffron@IngaSaffron
Yet another NBA team grows tired of the big city and looks to abandon its arena for the suburbs. si.com/nba/jazz/news/…
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@tweetelissa @kristoncapps @mattyglesias @wcp I wish that came across more clearly in your original tweet.
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@kristoncapps @mattyglesias @wcp I think the flip flop is critical to why DC continues to be dysfunctional
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It's surprising to see a former Council member respond to the point that homicide rates are rising in D.C. while they are falling everywhere else by saying that's a MAGA narrative. It's not rightwing to care about murder
Elissa Silverman@tweetelissa
I knew this guy was insufferable on national politics but he is just clueless and uninformed on local affairs, which is a shame because he lives here and other people listen to him. He is the part of the MAGA group in DC local politics, voting against his own good gov interest.
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@ShaneDPhillips What is a “objective design standard” and how does that address a community concern about aesthetics?
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But community plans don't really address concerns about what happens *on your block*, and I'm not sure objective design standards can capture the aesthetic variation you find within neighborhoods. And I think people want to give feedback more locally than an entire neighborhood.
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What do people think about allowing resident-developed hyper-local objective design standards, perhaps even down to the block level, in exchange for shifting to by-right housing permit approvals? A few notes below before you chime in...
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@rantoftheminute @jacopocomin @GeorgetownMet The DC pitch suggested an attempt to help them take over the retail space at Gallery Place, which is a pretty good idea honestly.
Assuming Ted actually wants to stay and isn’t just shaking us down. Big assumption.
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