Around this time last year, preservationists were aghast at the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation's idea to cut a giant pit in the floor of the main hall with an elevated cafe above it and glass elevators descending to the food court below. After disappearing for a while, they've come back with a more modest proposal: [...]

One of the District's biggest fiscal problems is the inability to tax federal property. But but it has been able to levy a "possessory interest tax" on leases at federal properties—which has long irked the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation, a non-profit that subleases the station to the New York City-based Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation. Over the [...]

Back in April, the District Department of Transportation's point man on streetcars, Scott Kubly, assured the denizens of H Street NE that they were still working with Amtrak to run the western end of the streetcar underneath the railroad tracks, creating a direct connection to Union Station and transit links to the rest of the [...]

The transit world was abuzz yesterday with news of the Obama administration's $2 billion worth of improvements for high-speed rail service in the Northeast Corridor, Midwest, and California. Guess who missed out? The District, of course.
Specifically, Union Station, which hasn't had major infrastructure improvements since the 1980s, and has only increased Metro station capacity by [...]

There it is: The light at the end of the tunnel for H Street's long suffering.
By June 30th, the District Department of Transportation announced last night at an update meeting on the streetcar, they expect to "substantially complete" street and sidewalk work in the corridor. And with $99.3 million in the Mayor's capital budget over [...]

The D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute does great work on a lot of very important issues, but tax policy will never be the sexiest subject. To dramatize the City Council's latest proposed giveaway–to Union Station's commercial tenants–they've put together an awesomely ominous attack ad (and it's only Episode 1!).
To add my own two cents: The Union [...]

Big changes are coming to Union Station. Last year, Congress told the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation to come up with a comprehensive plan for the facility, which recieved its last major renovation in the mid 1980s. Planned additions include an intercity bus facility on the existing bus deck, an expanded mezzanine for the metro, and–in [...]

From this [Park(ing) Day]...

To this...

The organizers of Park(ing) Day DC seemed none too pleased with the post I wrote about their event. Apparently, the explanatory tone was not oozing with enough enthusiasm for them, so one coordinator took the time to type out his own version.

Ray LaHood—or whoever writes Ray LaHood's official blog Fast Lane—loves Union Station's spiffy, new bike station.
The U.S. Secretary of Transportation says the new facility is "a model example of the kind of sustainable mobility President Obama's Livable Communities initiative seeks."
The bike station, which was in the works for ages, finally opened up last Friday. It [...]

I spent much of last Thursday and Friday reporting on the Colombia is Passion campaign, which has inundated our city with colorful heart statues.
Some say they're promoting tourism, and the country's culture and identity. Others say they're a manipulative push for the Colombian Free Trade agreement.
And those people are protesting—starting at 4:30, in front [...]