BeyondDC @beyonddc
Dan Malouff. Urbanism & transportation, WashDC. Planner, professor, longtime @GGWash. Trying for less doomy RTing, more thoughtful microblogging. beyonddc.com Washington, DC Joined July 2008-
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During Silver Line planning circa 2007 there was an option to run the line as a subway under Tysons, rather than an el. Sadly it didn't work out. Here's how it might've looked.
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This neat website from @thijsniks lets you model ridership & ops costs for a high speed rail network based on real population figures and distances. My 5-minute plan for a DC-to-Chicago line yields 30 million pax/year. railmapper.net/project/1da82b…
One of my favorite games is figuring out what city I'm flying over. Here's Tours, France earlier this summer.
It's Thursday. Can you match the categories? ggwash.org/view/100637/pl…
The 3 big problems in US city planning today are: 1. The inability of zoning to produce enough housing. 2. The inability of car-oriented streets to enable safe & efficient travel. 3. The inability of our institutional processes to solve new problems.
The next batch of new Metrorail cars will have the brown stripe again.
The next batch of new Metrorail cars will have the brown stripe again.
They're only boulders if they come from the Boulder region of Colorado. Otherwise they're sparkling rocks.
What do MARC, Merrifield, Rockville Pike, and the Kennedy Center have in common? Anything? Play the GGWash Junctions word puzzle game to find out! ggwash.org/view/100383/pl…
Arlington's bike count program--like road traffic counts but for bikes--is quietly awesome. arlnow.com/2025/08/06/new…
Any process that takes longer than 1 governor's 4 year term is intended to fail. We need processes intended to succeed if we hope to do *anything* but slowly drown in the 20th Century's obsolescence. latimes.com/california/sto…
Another year, another ridership record for Virginia Amtrak wydaily.com/latest/regiona…
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Exciting news! We've added a new track and platform at Washington Union Station that expands service capacity and improves the overall customer experience. Learn more: media.amtrak.com/2025/08/amtrak…
The best time to build as densely as people need was decades ago. The second best time is now.
Rio de Janeiro intends to convert its BRT system to trams. viatrolebus.com.br/2025/08/rio-pr…
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