Bike Friendly Communities awards status to bike friendly communities.
Walk Friendly Communities awards status to walk friendly communities.
Kind of weird there's not a Transit Friendly Communities organization to... y'know.
The Transportation Department is making a significant investment into D.C.'s Union Station, though the rail hub's longer-term expansion remains in limbo. https://t.co/thdKsdoR95
@TODNewsHub I am worried a bridge park surrounded by water instead of dense neighborhoods will empty out after the novelty wears off, and DC will end up converting 11th to more of an event space anyway. Hopefully not. We will see.
Anyway some family members are in Branson, doing this celebration of suburbia, texting me photos left and right, and it's very clearly all they've ever wanted from a vacation.
I'm not going to yuck their yum, but it is anthropologically fascinating.
The west portal of the @PurpleLineMD Plymouth Tunnel. Located between Plymouth and Arliss Streets, at 2/10th of a mile in length it features a horseshoe-shaped profile measuring roughly 35.6 feet wide by 29 feet high. #bikeDC#PurpleLineMD#LightRailTunnel@purplelinenow
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.