This week's top posts are about the world outside your home. You know, that place where you used to have to shower prior to visiting. From Baltimore residents pushing for some streets to be opened for exercise, to a virtual tour of the Potomac and the Anacostia rivers, to maps of the Metro stations many of us used to frequent, seeing and experiencing the region is only a click away. Enjoy.
Like most American rail transit systems, Metrorail is arranged in a way that sends most trips toward a cluster of downtown stations where the lines converge. I made a map to show how long it takes to travel from each station to the system’s downtown core.
The Rosslyn-Ballston corridor is a famous example of early transit-oriented development because of the Orange Line, but the area was home to an innovative transit experiment long before Metro. From 1936 through 1939, a streetcar-bus hybrid provided service from the City of Fairfax to Rosslyn and into DC.
By Alex Holt (Maryland Correspondent) • April 28, 2020
In many ways, COVID-19 has brought Baltimore City to a standstill. So several Baltimore neighborhood groups, transportation advocates, local elected officials, and even health experts are now pressing to close at least parts of some of the city’s underutilized streets to cars and open them up to pedestrians for exercise.
Prior to the era of flight, accurately mapping cities was a cumbersome process. The intricate twists and turns of cities and the different footprints of their buildings posed major challenges to producing the accuracy and scale we enjoy today with our satellite-based maps.
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