By Alex Holt (Maryland Correspondent) • January 6, 2020
It’s really difficult to get to Annapolis, Maryland without a car, and it doesn’t get much easier once you’re there. The consequences of those limitations are especially apparent during the three-month stretch from January to April when Maryland’s General Assembly is in session.
By George Kevin Jordan (Editor and Correspondent) • January 6, 2020
Join us Tuesday, January 14, as the League of Extraordinary Bus Advocates weigh in on the role buses are playing in regards to issues of climate change, urban congestion, and transportation equity.
By David Alpert (Executive Director), Ron Thompson (Transportation Equity Organizer), Kate Jentoft-Herr (Program and Community Coordinator) • January 6, 2020
Greater Greater Washington has always centered around “urbanism” and, specifically, we write about housing, transportation, and public policy in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. We’ve always seen equity and sustainability as fundamental elements of urbanism, but in the coming year, we’re doing a few things to make this explicit.
By Alex Holt (Maryland Correspondent) • January 6, 2020
Starting this week, I’ll be covering the 2020 session of the Maryland General Assembly for Greater Greater Washington, bringing you all the ins and outs of the legislative process on key issues like transit, housing, the environment, and education.
Four people have died in road crashes in the District less than a week into the new year, three of them east of the Anacostia River: Two in cars near Congress Heights Metro on Saturday, one in a park at Minnesota and Pennsylvania SE on New Year’s Day, and one on foot on North Capitol Street Friday. (Fonda Mwangi / WTOP, Rachel Sadon / DCist, Fonda Mwangi / Wtop, Justin Wm. Moyer / Post)
A 75-year old man was killed trying to cross Georgia Avenue in Aspen Hill in Montgomery County Monday night. Meanwhile, a 6-year-old was killed and his mother injured crossing the road at a major intersection in Columbia, in Howard County. (Dan Schere / Bethesda Beat, Martin Weil / Post)
Two Democratic state legislators, Virginia state Delegate Ibraheem Samirah (Herndon) and Maryland state Delegate Vaughn Stewart (Derwood), each proposed a respective statewide measure to eliminate zoning for single-family homes. (Ally Schweitzer / WAMU)
The Department of Energy and Environment may restrict future real estate development in areas expected to be “permanently inundated in the year 2100.” The agency may also begin considering the impact of a 500-year floodplain on development rather than a 100-year one. (Nena Perry-Brown / Urban Turf)
The city of Alexandria will buy and restore Freedom House, the former headquarters for one of the nation’s most notorious slave-trading businesses and the site of a pre-Civil War slave pen. The city plans to expand exhibits in the building. (Patricia Sullivan / Post)
An e-scooter rider crashed with an Arlington school bus with students on board Monday afternoon in Rosslyn. The rider was seriously hurt and police are investigating. (ARLnow)
Laurel police are looking for a driver who may have intentionally run over and killed 10 seagulls with his or her car after someone used popcorn to lure the gulls to the parking lot at the Laurel Plaza Shopping Center in Maryland. (Martin Weil / Post. Tip: Chester B.)
