http://dc.thecityfix.com/nrdcs-smarter-cities-and-d-c-s-coal-power/ Sustainable Mobility in the District Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:14:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 http://dc.thecityfix.com/nrdcs-smarter-cities-and-d-c-s-coal-power/comment-page-1/#comment-1172 Purple Line to be Light Rail | TheCityFix DC Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:41:56 +0000 http://dc.thecityfix.com/?p=1492#comment-1172 [...] Gov. O’Malley has made his decision on the Purple Line: it’ll be light rail, as has been increasingly clear over the last couple of months. TheCityFix has been an advocate for high-quality bus rapid transit in the past, but let’s be clear: this is great news for transit advocates. A circumferential rapid transit line will be a major improvement in the regional transportation network. Insofar as the World Resources Institute analysis did find that light rail would emit more greenhouse gases than buses, let this just be an impetus to clean up our region’s very dirty power grid. [...] [...] Gov. O’Malley has made his decision on the Purple Line: it’ll be light rail, as has been increasingly clear over the last couple of months. TheCityFix has been an advocate for high-quality bus rapid transit in the past, but let’s be clear: this is great news for transit advocates. A circumferential rapid transit line will be a major improvement in the regional transportation network. Insofar as the World Resources Institute analysis did find that light rail would emit more greenhouse gases than buses, let this just be an impetus to clean up our region’s very dirty power grid. [...]

]]> http://dc.thecityfix.com/nrdcs-smarter-cities-and-d-c-s-coal-power/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Noah Mamis Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:50:10 +0000 http://dc.thecityfix.com/?p=1492#comment-142 What do you mean, DC doesn't need home heating!? Last I checked, it does in fact snow here, and it does in fact drop below freezing in the winter. I know you're from Boston, so January here is balmy by comparison, but it's not like DC is in Florida. What do you mean, DC doesn’t need home heating!? Last I checked, it does in fact snow here, and it does in fact drop below freezing in the winter. I know you’re from Boston, so January here is balmy by comparison, but it’s not like DC is in Florida.

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