From Extraordinary Observations
September 19, 2011 at 7:19 pm
I recently got a chance to read Ryan Avent's Kindle book The Gated City. I have a lot of respect for the author. I think he's one of the smartest people around when it comes to ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
September 18, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Yesterday I rode my bike over to check out the H Street NE neighborhood festival, followed by a screening at the DC Shorts film festival at the Atlas Theater. Ever since major ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
September 14, 2011 at 7:39 pm
David Alpert has a nice take down of many of the poorly conceived Metro station renames that have been proposed. He cites the Navy Yard-"W" rename as an especially egregious example, ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
September 3, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Earlier in the week, Topher Mathews wrote about the loss of one of DC's third places - the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Georgetown. While it's no surprise that the brick-and-mortar ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
August 31, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Last week I saw a number of people tweeting this post on Archinect, which shows an image of Los Angeles, and the cities that you could "fit" inside of its boundaries. The author ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
August 29, 2011 at 8:49 pm
I travel semi-regularly. I probably fly about about ten round-trips per year. Fortunately, it's reasonably affordable, because I'm always able to get great fares. When someone ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
August 24, 2011 at 7:24 pm
It's been a hot summer, and I've been drinking iced coffee exclusively for the past few months. I've also been buying very little from coffee shops lately, because most of them ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
August 21, 2011 at 10:36 am
Last weekend I traveled south to Virginia Beach for a quick weekend vacation. I'd never been to the area, and aside from the oceanfront, I was curious to see what the city itself ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
August 18, 2011 at 8:27 pm
Alex Baca has a great article in this week's City Paper about what bicycling really means to people, versus how the activity is frequently perceived and described by those who ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
August 15, 2011 at 6:00 pm
I've got a new post over at Greater Greater Washington exploring the ins-and-outs of rental car insurance for people who don't have auto insurance. It's a shame that the options ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
August 4, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Does wearing a helmet make a bicyclist safer? Yes. And no. This story has been getting a bit of attention this week. British doctors are arguing that helmets shouldn't be mandatory ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
July 26, 2011 at 8:48 pm
NPR has a really interesting story about the pitfalls of using GPS devices for driving directions. I've always been skeptical of them, and never owned one (though I do have Google ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
July 21, 2011 at 8:45 pm
Until last week, I don't think I knew any Netflix subscriber that didn't love the service. Now, it seems like they haven't got a friend left in the world. Netflix had a good thing ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
July 17, 2011 at 10:28 pm
After having some not-so-great luck with Megabus last winter, I decided to give the low-cost bus carrier one more chance during a trip to Pittsburgh last weekend. Unfortunately, ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
July 12, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Richard Layman shares some interesting thoughts on the bicycle network in DC. He presents it in a way that makes very clear that the success of a bicycling network isn't measured ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
June 28, 2011 at 9:56 pm
I found Elisabeth Rosenthal's recent New York Times article difficult to stomach. The language she uses makes it sound like urban and transportation policy is a zero sum game in ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
June 21, 2011 at 6:44 pm
In the process of moving from Arlington to DC this past week, I've been able to see the groups of twenty-somethings coming over to look at the house I've been renting for a year. ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
June 19, 2011 at 5:22 pm
I've written about Groupon and similar services a few times in the past. I've generally been supportive of them, but my opinion is starting to change. I don't think these services ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
June 12, 2011 at 9:01 pm
A few weeks ago I was riding my bike east on M Street NW on way to work, as I do nearly every morning. If you've never been on this road, it's important to establish that, in an ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
June 9, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Scott McCartney wrote an interesting article in last week's Wall Street Journal about the cost of air travel. Specifically, he notes that Southwest Airlines isn't always the lowest ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
June 7, 2011 at 7:50 pm
A few weekends ago I got a change to bike the stretch of abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike just east of Breezewood. The ride itself wasn't especially scenic, as much of the area ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
June 5, 2011 at 5:37 pm
A little over a year ago I moved to Arlington, Virginia. My job was in Arlington and I was lucky to find a good house with good people. I appreciated having a relatively short ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
June 2, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Last week Alex commented about the high price of train fares for on the Northeast Corridor, compared to other Amtrak routes, even when accounting for distance. It’s often difficult ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
May 26, 2011 at 8:01 pm
Nate Silver has been tracking some heat over a post he wrote last week about the Brookings Institution's study of public transit and access to jobs in metropolitan America. The ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
May 25, 2011 at 7:17 pm
There's a lot of things I love about DC, but high rent is not one of them. According to Elizabeth Razzi's Washington Post article, DC's price-to-rent ratio is 13, which makes it ... (
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