Here's our round-up of this week's must-read posts.
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This week in our round-up of must-read posts: While celebrating 14 years, CaBi continues to raise the bar in ridership. A new poll shows that a "silent majority" of MoCo voters support more housing. Arlington County is refreshing their transportation plan: share your feedback to help ensure better streets happen. Both Presidential candidates want to build more housing, but will it be where people want to live? Extreme heat is here to stay, but there is a natural cooling solution.
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Samuel Littauer (Contributor) • October 21, 2024
Members accounted for 65.5% of all Bikeshare trips in September, underscoring the reality that CaBi is primarily a local utility rather than an amenity for tourists visiting the nation’s capital.
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Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director) • October 21, 2024
Montgomery County Democrats support proposals that make it easier to build more homes, and they’ll vote county councilmembers out if they don’t do something about high housing costs, says our new poll.
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Jane Green (Former Development Director) • October 22, 2024
Arlington is revising its Master Transportation Plan. Live in, or travel to or through, Arlington? Your input could help create a better plan.
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Aaron Short • October 23, 2024
Recent federal action on housing supply has both positive features, like incentives for transit-oriented development, and worrying ones, like building further into federal lands and often away from job centers. The outcome of the current US presidential election could mean the acceleration of either approach, with significant implications for growth and sustainability.
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Jackie Ostfeld • October 24, 2024
Last summer might have been the hottest of our lives, but it might also be the coolest of the rest of our lives. Various solutions feature different time horizons and approaches, but planting more trees could help preserve safe outdoor places in which people can recreate.
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