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David Alpert

@alpert

5 years

We talk about “removing” parking spaces but instead maybe we should say “upgrading” them to bus lanes, bike lanes, parklets, or other higher value uses

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2 years

Am I missing something or is this being unclear on the whole saving the planet concept? At Palisades parade

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3 years

How our country treats bike transportation vs car transportation, in one image. (HT @alex_block and @JRogers202 )

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@ABC7Chicago

3 years

DANGEROUS WAVES: Don't let this happen to you. Strong winds are causing high waves to pound the shoreline along Lake Michigan. Stay off the the lakefront trail.

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“We thought people would move to transit. Then we built the ICC and widened 95 and kept ignoring MARC and Metro and Baltimore. And we grade separated 29. And we’re just baffled why people didn’t all move to transit while we spent all our money on road projects.”

Adam Tuss

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5 years

Md Transportation Secretary Pete Rahn - for years we have thought people were going to get tired of traffic and move to transit. But it hasn’t happened. @nbcwashington

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@alpert

23 days

Here’s what an integrated rail system (Metro, Purple Line, MARC, VRE) could look like:

David Alpert

@alpert

23 days

Would be huge if so. Are we talking about the fragmented bus systems only? What about MARC and VRE which go outside the WMATA area but could be integrated into a regional system?

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21 days

In short: are speed cameras racist? No. Are the locations of highways racist? Yes.

Tom Lee

@tjl

21 days

alright you maniacs, here's my magnum opus on DC speed cameras 2200 words and a truly mortifying amount of SQL to tell everyone to touch grass (and to drive slowly if they have to use a car to get to the grass)

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@alpert

6 years

When you can fit 10 buses into a picture maybe we need bus lanes

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6 years

That @PostOpinions didn’t see the irony of sneering at users of (shared) dockless bikes using sidewalks as “their personal parking lot” when the road space immediately adjacent is ACTUALLY USED BY DRIVERS AS THEIR PERSONAL PARKING LOT is astounding

Opinion | Dear dockless bikers: Sidewalks aren’t your personal parking lots

Cyclists should recognize that all of Washington is not their bike rack.

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@alpert

4 years

“We have no money for transit”

Luz Lazo

@luzcita

4 years

New: @GovernorVA and @GovLarryHogan say Maryland and Virginia will team up to rebuild and widen the American Legion bridge in a multi-billion-dollar project to relieve congestion at the Washington region's worst traffic hot spot.

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@alpert

4 years

Procurement laws push so hard to make sure no public funds are wasted, they force even more public funds to be wasted complying with all the procedures.

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@alpert

5 months

@monofrogue @cremieuxrecueil Love it… But who booked the theater?

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5 years

Ummm yes, they did just build a lot of new housing on my block, in fact right across the street, and I supported it

Posts tagged St. Thomas Church

Greater Greater Washington builds informed and civically engaged communities who believe in a growing and inclusive Washington region and speak up for livable communities for all.

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☆DC☆4☆Reality☜

@dc4reality

5 years

@alpert When shall we start with your home @alpert ? How about @MayorBowser 's house. Can we massively increase density on ur block & ur house to start off? When & only when ur willing to do this, do not impose this on the rest of the District. Do you understand? @MWCOG @OPinDC @DMPEDDC

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@alpert

3 years

@OlavFolland @Alex__Ebert @GovMikeDeWine From his tweets looks like it will cover everyone in OH vaccinated up to that point - not just newly.

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@alpert

5 years

12 🚲 = 1 🚗, amirite?

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2 years

Brilliant turnabout

Mark Joseph Stern

@mjs_DC

2 years

Texas law enforcement has certified that the migrants whom Ron DeSantis trafficked to Martha's Vineyard are victims of a crime—potentially qualifying them for a U-visa, which would allow them to stay in the U.S. for four years and apply for a green card in three years.

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Exciting! Using a largely disused station as a mall maybe made sense once, but the mall operator was then standing in the way of better using it for trains. We need an amazing station, not a beautiful mall with a junky mini station stuck on the back.

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@WBJDan

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Big news on D.C.'s Union Station! A federal judge has ruled on @Amtrak 's decision to take the transit hub by eminent domain.

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David Alpert

@alpert

6 years

Warren’s bill includes grants to municipalities they can only get if hey break down exclusionary zoning practices

Diane Yentel

@dianeyentel

6 years

Elizabeth Warren’s Ambitious Fix for America’s Housing Crisis

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1 year

Transit Project Criticism Twitter needs to find some transit projects they think are a good idea and work on advocating for those. Just complaining about the less great projects creates a general feeling of negativity about all transit investment.

Nia 🪩✨✈️💫

@_johnsonator

1 year

What unpopular urbanism opinion will land you in this position?

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2 years

If I were an op-ed page editor at a major newspaper I might ask some questions before publishing an opinion piece which uses another family’s injured child as the lede to argue against the safety measures that family is asking for

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@alpert

2 years

@SenerisYt @PatrickKingsley @RajaAbdulrahim Grammar textbook about this tense:

How to Use the Past Exonerative Tense to Uphold White Supremacy

Most writers are familiar with the common forms of past tense such as the past simple, past continuous, and past perfect. But what about the increa...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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@alpert

2 years

They are still planning to do this?Seems like an even worse idea than when it was proposed, and it was a bad idea then

Emily Hamilton

@ebwhamilton

2 years

This long-delayed DC requirement for daycare workers to have college degrees will be truly terrible for everyone except Montessori daycares where workers already have college degrees if it goes into effect

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5 years

As I was readin’ I saw a map there And on that map said Single family only zonin’ But on the other side It didn’t say nothin’ That side was made for you and me

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@alpert

5 years

Affluent people paid $500,000, $1M, or even $2M to get their kid into a top area high school, new bombshell report reveals:

The educational admissions scandal widens dramatically

The education world was shaken recently when federal prosecutors charged 50 people with conspiring to cheat on college admissions tests or bribe athletic coaches to designate students as athletic...

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@alpert

9 months

Personally I’m not opposed to a stadium at RFK. It’s a huge traffic generator and Metro is well suited to transport crowds - works well @ Nats Park. However: 1) It needs to compete vs other uses for what’s best economically 2) It can’t have surface parking

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@alpert

2 years

Guy works for a prominent libertarian organization, but is shocked when that organization favors property rights; instead wants to define property rights as “homeowners wanting to limit what other people can do with their property near them.” Gets fired, is angry.

M. Nolan Gray

@mnolangray

2 years

Randall O'Toole is throwing a temper tantrum over his former Cato Institute colleagues supporting *checks notes* property rights and deregulation in California.

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@alpert

8 years

Ha! This via @jonorcutt and @BrentToderian is fantastic

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@alpert

4 years

DC's preservation office understands that yes, we have to preserve our planet! They will now let people have solar panels facing the street. They might nitpick them and don't promise to say yes, but it's a big step!

DC will now allow solar panels in historic districts! (Mostly.)

Homeowners may be able to put solar panels on the fronts of their roofs in historic districts, under new sustainability guidelines released by DC’s Historic Preservation Office Friday. HPO may still...

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@alpert

5 years

Whomst is now working for @ggwash ? Yes! The famous @alexbaca , owner of an entire meme/objective pronoun, is our new Housing Program Organizer. Please welcome her!

Please welcome our new Housing Program Organizer, Alex Baca!

Hi there. My name is Alex Baca, and I'm GGWash's new Housing Program Organizer. I'm excited—and a little nervous!—to be taking over David Whitehead's position following his phenomenal work in this...

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3 years

Take the sh*t DC

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@alpert

4 years

Inbox: car2go is shutting down all operations in North America including in DC. This was dockless before bikes and scooters - dockless cars.

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@alpert

6 years

The greenest parking garage is one with zero parking spaces.

Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

6 years

It’s not more housing. Rather, Berkeley is opening the “greenest parking garage” in California.

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@alpert

5 years

This 👇 And this is what it doesn’t look like:

Brian Hanlon

@hanlonbt

5 years

Attn CA cities that declared "climate emergencies": this is what climate leadership looks like.

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@alpert

7 years

The US Atty may have a hard time getting juries to convict

Martin Austermühle

@maustermuhle

7 years

The US Attorney for DC says that a majority of the 230 people arrested during inauguration protests will be charged with felony rioting.

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3 years

These folks are attacking the Park Morton affordable housing developers for failing to build any housing for 6 years. They haven’t been able to BECAUSE THESE FOLKS SUED THE PROJECT.

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6 years

A panelist at #yimbytown says "affordable to who?" At least 3 people near me immediately whisper "whomst?" and look at @alexbaca who is sitting 2 seats from me. Congrats on owning a whole objective pronoun #YIMBYsinBoston

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@alpert

3 years

Holy s*** when did we get this floating bus stop? This is great! NH Ave and 20th NW @ddotdc @anc2b

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4 months

@macsquirelera @nilocobau This is half of the mini split. The other half has to go outside and you run a refrigerant line between them. That’s what the “split” means - the part that blows cold air inside & the part that blows hot air outside.

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@alpert

2 years

We need laws that make self driving companies liable for programming their cars to drive illegally. If the laws are wrong then change them, but nobody should be able to make a device with impunity that is programmed to act illegally.

David Zipper

@DavidZipper

2 years

I guess "Road Rage Mode" didn't fit on the screen

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@alpert

7 years

We're glad you're our neighbor, but we sure don't want any more neighbors over on North Capitol Street #mcmillan

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4 years

New @MayorBowser directive: Bars and restaurants must limit tables to 6 people, keep them 6 feet apart, no people standing, no bar seating, max 250 occupancy. Not sure if that’s enough

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@alpert

3 years

@POTUS What about kids under 12, Mr. President?

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@alpert

5 years

How Congress sees DC: “That place we park sometimes”

Alex Dodds

@alexgdodds

5 years

Rep. Massie is saying it would be too hard to park in DC if it became a state. NEXT LEVEL NIMBYISM Y’ALL.

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5 months

Got a cargo e-bike recently and just had my first run-in with an aggressive driver, with my kid in the back. I was on R (painted bike lane) getting ready to turn left so I moved to the left side of the main lane. Older guy in a big SUV passed on my right and honked as he cut 1/

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@alpert

5 years

If only this could be the thing Trump wanted to emulate about Russia.

Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

5 years

The real scandal is that you rarely wait more than 90 seconds for a train in Moscow.

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@alpert

2 years

Here are some more pictures showing the terrible, terrible scenes @Marc_Elrich @MCDOTNow are acting rapidly to remove:

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@alpert

2 years

One terrific gem from the DC redistricting committee: they recreated maps of the ward boundaries from every decade since home rule. Pretty cool to see. - thanks @CM_Silverman @rosenamy @tweetelissa @CMCHenderson @chenderson @AnitaBondsDC

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@alpert

3 years

This will be familiar to all who have witnessed wealthy homeowners at a zoning meeting.

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@alpert

3 years

@beyonddc Why doesn’t it pay Amtrak for the lost fares of people who drive?

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23 days

Would be huge if so. Are we talking about the fragmented bus systems only? What about MARC and VRE which go outside the WMATA area but could be integrated into a regional system?

Adam Tuss

@AdamTuss

23 days

BREAKING - Metro and @MWCOG announcing that they will bring the Metro Board and COG Board together for the first time ever. The goal is to find a way to possibly transform all transit groups across the region to become one interchangeable system @nbcwashington #wmata

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@alpert

26 days

Unlike elsewhere, individual councilmembers have virtually no power over zoning. They are NOT ALLOWED to introduce bills relieving zoning burdens on housing. Look at @charlesallen ’s efforts to ENABLE a restaurant to use a 2nd floor - he could only jawbone the zoning commission.

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

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We have some of the longest-standing YIMBY organizing efforts here in DC, but there isn't really a single strong pro-housing person on the Council championing ambitious legislation and big ideas. It's very disappointing.

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5 years

"3 car drivers have hit me while I was biking in DC. I sincerely hope my life is more valuable than some parking spaces. Please support a humane, people centric street design with the longest possible bike lane on 21st St." - @RobbDooling @ANC2B #bikedc

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@alpert

3 months

Just got a parking ticket which I deserved because I wasn’t parked legally. Unfortunately if I just had a fake license plate I would not now owe $100. (Or if I lived in MD I could ignore the ticket forever.) Let’s fix the fake license plate non-enforcement!

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@alpert

4 months

Wouldn’t it be great if the @NationalZoo celebrated winter & lights not by closing off the Rock Creek path every day at early dusk but by illuminating it?

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@simontrose

5 months

Really appreciate @HoustonTX making the best holiday bike lane in Texas.

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3 years

@maustermuhle I’m thinking how good it will look when one day the adjacent properties are built up to that level too

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@alpert

5 years

Can we get the top one after all please

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@alpert

5 years

Excellent story about Unsuck aka Matt Hilburn. I’d add that he has been attacking any efforts to constructively fix problems for years, discouraging many from being involved in trying to improve Metro.

Rachel Kurzius

@Curious_Kurz

5 years

You may have heard I was working on a story about Unsuck D.C. Metro. Here it is:

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@alpert

6 years

Motion passes: @NCPCgov has NOT APPROVED new fences for the @NationalZoo and will defer action until September. Zoo has to provide more justification and do community outreach.

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@alpert

7 months

Pass congestion pricing right now!

Zach Israel

@ZachBIsrael

7 months

While their is no Speaker currently (and thus, any legislative activity is stalled on the House floor), the 30-day congressional review period for bills passed by the DC Council & signed (or unsigned) by the Mayor continues onward while the House GOP can't vote to block DC bills!

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@alpert

5 years

There can be a Movie Preservation Review Board which reviews all scripts, makes recommendations to make them more compatible with existing films, and doesn’t care if it makes all movies unaffordable

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@alpert

5 years

. @marycheh : “We should have protected bike lanes everywhere. EVERY. WHERE. We should be Copenhagen. That’s what I always say.” #bikedc

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@alpert

3 years

Seeing quite a lot of shock from people that they might be encouraged to register for vaccines at the *federal* site in MD (via a MD state website). Folks, trust me, if you cross Eastern Avenue you don't fall off into space - the ground keeps going and even houses and stuff!

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5 years

Or since the only way to get there from Munchkinland is walk, it naturally had no sprawl (Marchetti’s Constant)

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@alpert

6 years

If you really care about equity, keeping DC population down is the worst policy. As @yimbymom says, “When housing choices are limited, the wealthy always win.”

Opinion | We need to make room for everyone in D.C.

All neighborhoods need to work harder at inclusive housing.

www.washingtonpost.com

Cuneyt Dil

@cuneytdil

6 years

@OPinDC Many here take issue with D.C.’s projection to reach 1M population by 2045, which would natch call for more development. “Fundamentally the question for our city is, do we want a million people?” says Chris Otten.

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The sheet calls for the H St bus stop to be at least 2 blocks away from the arena - so not just moved but moved far. Should be a nonstarter to put it anywhere but at the Metro. Also no streeteries at all.

Alex Koma

@AlexKomaWCP

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Here's the details on what Bowser signed with Ted Leonsis in this much-discussed term sheet, as it was sent to Council: Lots of details about how the Wizards would pull off a move out of the ESA/how the city would find them a new practice facility...

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@alpert

5 years

You think a story isn’t about transportation, but then it is. It’s always about parking. Always.

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@alpert

4 years

What I’m fundamentally frustrated about is my kids have had art camp, skating lessons, a birthday party, and at least 2 weeks of their education ripped from them and elected leaders won’t stop people from spreading the virus at bars.

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I’m really very upset with @DDOTDC and @MayorBowser for deleting the bike safety project on Connecticut Ave. Since we often have to take both kids to activities I bought an e-bike. I feel reasonably safe going to soccer at Petworth Rec Center. I don’t going to most Ward 3 places.

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@alpert

2 years

Do this, and then set up something to charge MD and VA commuters with oversized vehicles as wel

David Zipper

@DavidZipper

2 years

NEW: The District of Columbia will soon charge owners of supersized trucks/SUVs extra for the damage they inflict on society. It's a groundbreaking model that other cities and states should study. A 🧵 about my latest in @CityLab

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6 years

This is what K Street could look like

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8 months

Yes, it’s getting ridiculous.

Scott Goldstein

@ScottGoldstein

8 months

It’s like required of every DC gov agency that you cannot announce good news without saying “Thanks to Mayor Bowser…”. Truly reminds me of those old Trump cabinet meetings where they would go around and everyone would have to say something nice about him before they begin.

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5 years

Just don’t understand why of all the budget changes the council made the mayor’s team is still pushing this one. Making bus cheaper was a noble impulse but making Circulator, which is designed for tourists, free versus buses that serve lower-income neighborhoods was misguided

Mayor Muriel Bowser

@MayorBowser

5 years

I urge the @councilofdc to make Washington, DC a leader in free public transportation by permanently eliminating fares on the @DCCirculator . It is true: for some, the $1 fare is nominal; for many others, though – especially for our most vulnerable neighbors – it is prohibitive.

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@alpert

6 years

We venerate both urban and rural land forms in art and more, then make urban illegal and pave farmland for more suburban sprawl

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@DanielKayHertz

6 years

It's interesting that there's no imagery for the Chicago suburbs, where like half the people in Illinois live

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3 years

Parents rally for @OpenDCSchools #opendcschools

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5 months

in front of me only to stop at the red light right in front of both of us. When I pulled up beside and politely said “yes?” he gestured at the bike lane on the right side. Tel me again why all people on bikes are entitled assholes? 2/2

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3 years

@mattyglesias Agreed, yet then the Surgeon General nominee says on @ezraklein ’s show a couple weeks ago that people shouldn’t plan on visiting grandparents indoors even after vaccination! That seems like a terrible message.

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4 years

The first time I saw @VinceGrayWard7 speak at an event he was chairman and I expected a politician-ey speech. Instead he handed out an outline of the budget and went through item by item. This guy knows his stuff cold and is super smart. If it’s confusing as a m*f* it REALLY is.

Ally Schweitzer #NPR

@allyschweitzer

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"God damn shit is confusing as a motherfucker man," @VinceGrayWard7 is heard saying while unmuted on Zoom.

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@JillFilipovic “ Although it appears to be duct tape, what you’re seeing on aircraft wings is actually an aluminum-based material known in the aviation world as speed tape, and it’s perfectly safe for certain types of repairs, according to aviation experts and the [FAA]”

Don’t freak out about that tape on your plane’s wing

Photos of airplane wings patched with what looks like duct tape have gone viral, but it's actually another material known as speed tape.

www.washingtonpost.com

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He can only conceive of “improvements” being making it easier to drive or ride share to the arena.

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4 years

This argument bugs me to no end. This warehouse of pins is indeed embarrassing for Metro and good there’s an IG to find problems so they can be fixed. But any similarly huge private organization has comparable waste, *you just never hear about it.*

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@alpert

7 years

Great post. Zoning & regulations discourage small apt bldgs, but they're the most affordable kind of housing

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@alpert

6 years

Dc’s 400 scooter limit is making traffic worse

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@alpert

6 years

Police are already rushing to exonerate the driver even though the driver was a computer.

Benjamin Ross

@BenRossTransit

6 years

Tempe police chief says Uber car breaking law (38 mph in 35 mph zone) was not at fault because its lidar isn't expected to see into shadows

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6 years

ICYMI: Sign this petition to oppose useless security theater in the form of checkpoints and a more closed-off public space at the @NationalZoo : @ggwash

The National Zoo’s proposed fences and checkpoints are “security theater”

The Smithsonian has plans to install security checkpoints at the National Zoo and reduce the number of pedestrian entrances from 13 to three. Adding more barriers will cut the Zoo off from the rest...

ggwash.org

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@alpert

1 year

If you do motifs, less federal. Let’s use the opportunity to highlight the Washington region that’s not national monuments, and teach visitors that. Plus, the feds don’t fund operations anyway.

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1 year

D.C. motifs in new train cars... like it or no?

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2 years

@SenerisYt @PatrickKingsley @RajaAbdulrahim That link is great but this one is actually the best McSweeney’s article on this topic:

Facepalm Pilot: Where Technology Meets Stupidity: An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar

Depending on whom you ask, the use of the active voice over the passive is arguably the most fundamental writer’s maxim, thought to lend we...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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@alpert

5 years

Lots of traffic slowing 16th St buses today. Let’s get that bus lane built! (Happening next year.) And some east or the river and elsewhere!

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@alpert

2 years

@pazzo83 @LiamBlank We have to watch out for the Manhattanization of Manhattan

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@alpert

7 years

Amid all the analysis of the Clinton loss don't forget the Dems hold almost no state legislatures/govs. Problem is much deeper

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David Alpert

@alpert

7 years

Too tall, not enough parking, too many poor people for "our community"

SF YIMBY

@SFyimby

7 years

Habitat for Humanity wants to build in Redwood City. Neighbors are excited about how much good that could do...

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David Alpert

@alpert

1 year

Look at that view of cars! Good thing historic preservation ensured that there was a really huge vista by making the station be far away!

Emily Hamilton

@ebwhamilton

1 year

Finally experiencing rail to Dulles

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David Alpert

@alpert

5 years

954 degrees and I have to wear a damn suit today. We need men’s business formal that’s good in summer. (Usual @GGWash dress code allows shorts or anything else casual.)

Antonette Russell

@MrsAntonette

5 years

WOW!! @ChuckBell4 😁 @nbcwashington

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David Alpert

@alpert

7 years

Bus lane, bus island, protected bikeway #looplink @cta @TransitCenter Many downtown #DC streets are this wide or wider. #wecandoit

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David Alpert

@alpert

4 years

Stay away from the Central Business District

MarketWatch

@MarketWatch

4 years

CBD can harm you, FDA warns, as there is a lack of scientific information to confirm its safety.

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David Alpert

@alpert

4 years

DC voters have an opportunity to elect neither of these people this June. Imagine @PLKDC and @Janeese4DC in this same photo cheering for a very different President in 2021 (if we can have an inauguration event at all, I guess)

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David Alpert

@alpert

6 years

How about closing one lane of Beach Drive to cars for a year and then people on bikes can use the tunnel too. #bikedc

WABA

@WABADC

6 years

BIKE TRAFFIC ALERT: A section of the Rock Creek Trail next to the Zoo is closed. You know that section where you always think, "it looks like this trail is going to fall into the creek?" Turns out it's about to fall into the creek. Park officials have deemed it unsafe.

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David Alpert

@alpert

7 months

How about a $5 fine for the bus lanes instead of $200 - and definitely instead of the current $0? But put them on as many buses as possible. That would better fit the “certainty over severity” concept I believe in, and maybe address @MayorBowser ’s concerns, whatever they are?

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David Alpert

@alpert

2 years

2 or 3 years ago I sat in meetings with @DDOTDC engineers who insisted that having a crosswalk and bike lane on the east side of 1st St @ NY Ave there was impossible, that it “didn’t work.” Eventually it was possible. Always keep advocating for better intersections!

CapitalCommunityNews

@capitalcommnews

2 years

On Monday at 6:30p, @DDOTDC will share final plans for the redesign of Dave Thomas Circle: See Final Plans for Dave Circle Redesign Monday

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David Alpert

@alpert

5 years

It’s clearly historically incompatible to be so short. Too bad there wasn’t a historic district to prohibit making it short. (No historic review has ever said that.)

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David Alpert

@alpert

4 years

If riparian is the word for the place water and wilderness land touch, is there a word for the place urban space or infrastructure and wilderness touch?

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David Alpert

@alpert

6 years

Takoma person says 8 unit apt bldg next to a single family house is “out of character.” @BrianneKNadeau says, um, in #ward1 that’s pretty common so I don’t see the problem. 👍 #ComprehensivePlan #CompPlanHearing

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