This week, here’s how you can Do Something about bus and bike lanes on Columbia Road; park funding and trans health care in Maryland; and accessory apartments in Virginia. And a Ludacris-inspired highway bill (we’re not kidding!)
New and slick and shiny objects are attractive in their gloss, but need time to develop depth and spirit. This is true for places as well as people. Much of Florida is too newly minted to have this patina, so if we value character, we need to stop demolishing and paving over our older neighborhoods.