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Fountain's back on at Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park and fully accessible all fences down, it's been so long, still as breathtaking as ever 🤩
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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 Katılım Temmuz 2008
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This person rode only regional rail & local buses from DC to Boston. Took them 22 hours and cost $110.
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@alexsands_ Such carefully selected angles! Almost like they really want you to think a certain thing.
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NCDOT showed the city council some views yesterday of what the I-77 elevated lanes would look like throughout the city.
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Free webinar on the future of NoVA transit!
Lots of smart local speakers!
smartergrowth.net/event/webinar-…
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@humantransit Solving problems & achieving goals does require putting the pencils down after awhile and doing the thing. 💯
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@beyonddc Agreed. Of course good planners also know how to recognize when "working with people" has reached a point of diminishing returns and it is time to make a decision.
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Someone recently asked me what makes a good city planner vs a bad one. Here's my answer:
Good planners value working with people to solve problems & achieve shared goals.
Bad planners hide behind process to make themselves petty lords of a tiny fiefdom to gatekeep prosperity.
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@jefflynw4646 Define knuckle heads.
It's OK with me if we build high-rises there. But I'm curious who you mean by that. My kid is there all the time. I was there this morning. Go ahead.
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Trouble for Silver Spring's City Place... er Ellsworth Place mall.
Washington Business Journal@WBJonline
The owner of a prominent Silver Spring retail center that lost such tenants as TJ Maxx and Outback is months behind on its loan payments and said it does not intend to inject any more money into the development. bizjournals.com/washington/new…
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@Ward3Vision NIMBYs winning the politics doesn't mean the planners are bad. It's asking a lot of planners to beat that.
But there are many planners—more so far in the suburbs—who see it as their job to preserve the status of SFH buyers, and everyone else is the enemy. Those are bad planners.
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@beyonddc You could amend the 2nd point to say bad planners empower NIMBYs by hiding behind process to thwart any progress.
But in defense of planners in DC in Ward 3 at least that happens because of the political class & not planners.
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@oucmecalling311 A lot of JLGs ideas seem borderline looney but at least she is proposing something-he is just pandering nonstop - in this case vaguely defining the problem that he did nothing about in 12 years on the Council & still not proposing any solutions.
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@andrewdefrank It is getting really good as long as you don't need inch-by-inch precision.
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I think the new ChatGPT image stuff may be helpful for visualizing urbanist futures with a bit more realism and specificity. my first attempt.
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The Virginia Breeze--VA's state-run intercity bus--keeps quietly expanding.
No longer dependent on only DC as a hub, newest routes connects cross-state VA Beach to Harrisonburg.
virginiamercury.com/2026/04/22/sta…
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I miss spring games being on TV. Saban and Dabo narrating the action. Herbstreit, etc., on the call.
Others disagree.
Bruce Feldman@BruceFeldmanCFB
New Audible: Do spring games belong on TV, or are they just empty calories? @slmandel @ralphDrussoATH & I discuss. Plus, we talk about my visit to Miami to check in on the Canes; Alabama in YR 3 of Kalen DeBoer & much more: youtube.com/watch?v=SO96PL…
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I'll be visiting Boston this weekend for the first time in a while. Any suggestions for what to do and see? Museums, restaurants, parks, etc... Also who do I already know in the area?
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@artnaturevibes @maxtmcc Nobody from Loudoun County's coming to Union Market the way they're coming to the ballpark & Anthem
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GGWash needs a new Breakfast Links curator. Would you be interested?
Details: secure.everyaction.com/rSDZI2e5QUqHlk… @ggwash
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