Stay updated with breaking news from கடினம் ஓடு. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
February 17, 2021 The Fairfax County Park Authority (FCPA) is seeking public comment on the design of a planned trail improvement project in Random Hills Park, located off Random Hills Road in Fairfax, Virginia. The Park Authority is planning to improve approximately 1,000 linear feet of asphalt trail in Random Hills Park as part of the I-66 Trail/Transform I-66 project. The project will connect the Virginia Department of Transportation’s (VDOT) proposed trail along Interstate 66 with the existing trail network within Random Hills Park to Random Hills Road. Construction access will be from Random Hills Road and Route 50. The project will be designed and constructed to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards, so that it may serve both pedestrians and cyclists of all abilities. ....
A map of every intersection and dead-end inside the Beltway, color-coded by type. Image by the author. Recently, Bloomberg Citylab featured my maps of intersections in US metro areas. Their article didn’t include maps of the Washington region, so here’s a comparison of intersections in different parts of our area. Why intersection types matter Street networks are an important part of urban form, both for pedestrians and for public transit. In traditionally gridded cities, like New York, a regular pattern of long, straight roads provides natural routes for buses and good connectivity for pedestrians to get where they’re going without taking indirect routes. When three-way intersections predominate, buses often have to follow winding, indirect routings to serve communities for example the A22 in Prince George’s County or many routes overlap on the small number of straight through streets, such as Rte 7 and US-1 in Northern Virginia. ....
Investors who have owned stocks since 2016 generally have experienced some big gains. In fact, the SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) total return in the past . ....
A view of our region s incorporated cities and towns (in red) and 2020 Census-designated places (in orange). With newly-established CDPs, nearly all of Fairfax County, like Prince George s County, is part of a place according to the Census, while much of Montgomery County s Agricultural Reserve is still not designated by the Census as places. Image by Census TIGERweb Decennial Webmap. With data collection for the 2020 Census now finished, the Census Bureau is starting to release some of the products from this once-every-ten-years project. One recent new release that is particularly significant in our region is the new Census-Designated Place (CDP) boundaries. ....
This was one of GGWash’s most popular articles in 2020. We’re sharing some of our hits again over the holiday season. On July 15, the crew of the International Space Station posted a nighttime photo of our region from space on Twitter, likening Washington, DC and Baltimore to “two galaxies swirling near each other.” This photo gives us the opportunity to make a number of observations about the region. DC and Baltimore City are different colors at night The first thing that stands out when one looks at the ISS crew’s photo nighttime lighting in our region is that the Washington region looks orange while the Baltimore region looks white. If they actually ....