Category Archives: Transportation
Five Minutes at Just One Corner
GM parked himself at the corner of P St. and Wisconsin over the weekend for just five minutes. Here’s what he saw:
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This Is How Bad Transportation Decisions Are Made
At the last ANC meeting, the issue of the south exit of the Safeway was discussed. GM discussed this after the meeting, but he thinks it’s worthwhile to walk through the story of the changes to this intersection because it … Continue reading
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Georgetown Needs a Master Transportation Plan
Someday Georgetown is going to have its own Metro stop. GM might be old and retired by then, but it is going to happen. It will revolutionize how people get to and leave Georgetown, finally erasing a decades old short-sighted … Continue reading
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Georgetown Adds Fifth Bikeshare Station
As wonderful Christmas/Hanukkah/Winter Solstice gift, Georgetown received its fifth Capital Bikeshare station, this one located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Ave. and M St. This is a perfect location for a bikeshare station, and GM expects it to be used … Continue reading
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M St. Cycletrack Will Extend to Georgetown
Photo by Ajfroggie. Last week, DDOT presented to the Bicycle Advisory Committee its map of bike lanes that it expects to construct in 2012. In the map released by the BAC, it showed the highly anticipated M St. bicycle track … Continue reading
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How Georgetown Would’ve Looked if Metro Never Built
As reported by several outlets, WMATA just put out an interesting study that looked at what DC would look like if Metro were never built. While the focus elsewhere has been on how devastated a neighborhood like Mt. Vernon Triangle … Continue reading
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NPS Supports Keeping Rose Park Path as Multipurpose
Photo by Csuspect. As discussed a while back in connection with the possible placement of a Capital Bikeshare station in Rose Park, there has been a long simmering fight in Rose Park over the use of a path that travels … Continue reading
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Georgetown Businesses and Residents Don’t Support Evans’ Meter Proposal
Today, GM turns over the reins of the Georgetown Metropolitan for a day to his friend and fellow Georgetowner Ken Archer to discuss Jack Evans recent parking proposals: Councilmember Jack Evans’ proposal to roll back parking meter rates and hours … Continue reading
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Several Transportation Ideas Proposed Affecting Georgetown
Photo by CascadeFoto. Recently several DC pols have issued some proposals that could significantly impact Georgetown’s transportation mix. Some of the ideas are good, others bad. Let’s start with the good. Up until Chris Ziemann left DDOT last year, Ward … Continue reading
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Where Georgetown’s Alleys Are
Detail of map courtesy of Rob Pitingolo. Last week, using data from DC Data Catalog Rob Pitingolo published a map of all of DC’s alleys. GM’s cut and pasted above a detail of that map showing just Georgetown. Take a … Continue reading
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