Today, Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells announced the introduction of legislation that would allow for overhead wires to power streetcars on the H Street, NE/Benning Road line. This follows a late-night move by Council Chair and mayoral candidate Vincent Gray to remove funding for streetcars from the District’s 2010 budget after residents and businesses have […]
For those of you who are wondering what’s up with the status of plans to redesign Eastern Market Metro Plaza aka “Capitol Hill Town Square,” (or going back several years back, the Gateway project, with actual arches or gates) all in order to create a L’Enfantian landscape – well, I did too and I had […]
Welcome back after what I hope was a great Memorial Day weekend! I’m nursing some serious sunburn from my weekend camping and canoeing out on the Patuxent River and am already looking forward to the next time I get to spend a weekend in the woods. Claudia is off hiking the Inca Trail, so I’m […]
Pierre L’Enfant’s original plan for the Federal City remains the blueprint for the city to this day, and often when trying to decide how best to proceed with a project, the city’s planners look to that 220 year old document to help guide their decision. As the discussion rages on whether to convert Virginia Avenue […]
At a recent dinner party, there was a lively conversation about the new multi-space parking meters that don’t actually seem to work a lot of the time. This, of course, devolved into complaints about the $20 in quarters you have to carry around in order to park for any length of time (7 minutes, really??). […]