May 28, 2008
Go Home Already: Simple Pleasures
>> Did you catch this over the weekend? Washington Post feature writer Linton Weeks uses the first letter of each paragraph of his article about John Updike to express his sentiments about taking the buy out. [Romenesko]
>> Nationals Park is nice and green. [Money Changes Things]
>> The Waldorf man who killed eight people when he drove into a crowd at an illegal street race three months ago in Prince George's County was arrested last week on an unrelated charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. [WaPo]
>> The expanded Ben's Chili Bowl location next door to the original on U Street, which will serve beer and lighter fare as well as the traditional Ben's menu, is set to open in August. [Washington Informer]
>> "It should be painfully obvious to everyone in the city at this point that the last thing a development needs to be successful is parking (even if that development happens to be a massive baseball stadium that routinely seats thousands of suburbanites). It’s absurd that developers need permission to build without parking. Please rectify." [The Bellows]
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amen on the parking....amen.
less people will be driving cars as we go forward. look at this from jim graham today.
that parking garage at target should be turned into housing or something (yeah, it would suck without windows, and i guess that would be technically illegal, but hell, if we don't find a use for it, it's just going to become C.H.U.D. HQ, and we can't let that happen.
Nationals Park is an occasional-use venue within easy reach of public transportation and taxi. Given those conditions, sure.
Re: Linton Weeks
Aww, that's not nearly as fun as it could have been. I was expecting the letters to spell out "GO F YOURSELVES" or something of that nature.
Story looks to be the same at the Harris Teeter in Adams Morgan. Everyone was predicting parking/traffic armageddon. Yet whenever I go in there, even at peak times, the parking garage appears to be nowhere near even half of its capacity. And the traffic on the surrounding streets is pretty much unaffected, aside from being far saner now that those narrow streets have been changed to one way.
Ben's will serve beer now? Sweet!, though I'm usually only there past 2am on the weekends.