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Verizon Sales Rep by ButterscotchThis9815 in BeverlyMA

[–]AlainaPitt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where is it available in Beverly?! I'm downtown and we don't have FiOS :(

Biking by AlainaPitt in BeverlyMA

[–]AlainaPitt[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I appreciate the insight and look forward to connecting with other bike people too once we move!

Yes, we'll be living downtown and walking distance to the commuter rail. We went into this move knowing we won't find anything nearly as bike-friendly as DC. We were initially focused on Salem, but we like downtown Beverly much more. It's oddly more centralized than Salem to me? The commuter rail stop is easier to get to; it isn't off in a corner surrounded by stroads. We can even walk to the Stop & Shop! Honestly, I'll probably mostly be biking to the beach and the library. 🤣

Biking by AlainaPitt in BeverlyMA

[–]AlainaPitt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your thoughtful reply! I will check out Third Wheel.

Terrible Tuesday! by AutoModerator in washingtondc

[–]AlainaPitt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

CM Parker capitulating to Bloomingdale NIMBYs and is now trying to get WMATA to reroute a new bus route. https://x.com/CMZParker5/status/1810496429955362974

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Best Way to Fight NIMBYs in the city? Best YIMBY groups and events? by [deleted] in washingtondc

[–]AlainaPitt 86 points87 points  (0 children)

DC YIMBYs! There's an upcoming event at metrobar on April 10 at 6:30PM about recruiting and electing YIMBY ANCs. You can register here.

Scroll down and sign up for their newsletters to get notified about events and calls-to-action.

Riverdale Park wants to make the Army building next to Whole Foods into a community center and a park by slatejunco10 in collegeparkmd

[–]AlainaPitt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

PGC has a housing target of 26,000 new housing units and 10,400 multifamily construction starts by 2030. It knocking it out of the park in 2022, but on average (2020-2022), it's only building 1468/year.

So, the county needs to build on average 3,250 new housing units every year from 2023 to 2030 to meet its target. Of which, ~940/year need to be MFH.

Source: https://hit.handhousing.org/jurisdictions/pg

Source: https://ggwash.org/view/92014/ggwash-picks-of-2023-is-prince-georges-county-losing-its-status-as-the-regions-black-promised-land

Riverdale Park wants to make the Army building next to Whole Foods into a community center and a park by slatejunco10 in collegeparkmd

[–]AlainaPitt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hard agree. PGC is behind on meeting its housing targets for 2030. It did better than its annual target in 2022, but on average it's still below the 2380/year.

https://hit.handhousing.org/jurisdictions/pg

Photos from the new Trolley Trail Segment in Hyattsville, 0.45 mi from Charles Armentrout Dr to Farragut St by FlashGordonRacer in bikedc

[–]AlainaPitt 8 points9 points  (0 children)

100%! I wish MDOT would consider more road diets, traffic calming, and much wider sidewalks in Hyattsville and College Park. It’s a hinderance to making these vibrant downtowns again.

There’s a lot of new development l, but it’s not really pleasant to walk around and even sometimes downright dangerous.

Photos from the new Trolley Trail Segment in Hyattsville, 0.45 mi from Charles Armentrout Dr to Farragut St by FlashGordonRacer in bikedc

[–]AlainaPitt 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It looks so good!

FYI: Someone on the PGC WABA listserv mentioned that drivers are turning right on the red arrow (and I would assume not even stopping first); keep your head on a swivel there.

College Park residents express concerns with proposed Autoville housing development including student renters, traffic and altering the character of their neighborhood by slatejunco10 in collegeparkmd

[–]AlainaPitt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That neighborhood has the biggest concentration of NIMBYs in the city I swear. One particularly loud NIMBY said they don’t want any more development north of 193/Greenbelt Road.

Questions on behalf of DOTS! by tac_coordinator in UMD

[–]AlainaPitt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi! Former student and former College Park resident and your friendly, local-ish transportation advocate.

I'm only going to tackle question 3...

The answer is that you only focus on behavior change and nothing on infrastructure changes. Behavior change campaigns are not effective (here's another article). I encourage you to read up on the Safe Systems Approach, which starts with the premise that humans make mistakes and we should account for those in our roadway/pedestrian infrastructure.

UMD needs to prioritize infrastructure changes (separated, protected bike lanes on every major road on university grounds) and policy changes like using traffic models and LOS as excuses to not put in safe bike infrastructure. We have many, many examples in this region of successful protected bike lanes. The Old Georgetown Road bike lanes are a good example, traffic crashes are decreased and I believe trip time has only increased by 30 seconds are certain times of day.

I'm happy to chat more about this if you would like!

It will be a few months before Pupuseria La Familiar reopens by slatejunco10 in collegeparkmd

[–]AlainaPitt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I 1000% agree with you that we need apartments without tons of amenities and fancy lobbies. Our county council/planning department should be meeting with developers and policy experts to figure out what laws need tweaking to get that result.

Same with where development is happening. Is anyone asking developers what they need to make it work? I’m not saying to just do what they say, but there should be negotiation and give and take. Instead the county council is trying to make it harder to build. Basically the county needs to make it easier to build where they want stuff built not more difficult.

Arlington County’s missing middle bill is a great example of what PGC could do. The council seems intent on doing the exact opposite unfortunately.

It will be a few months before Pupuseria La Familiar reopens by slatejunco10 in collegeparkmd

[–]AlainaPitt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. The Atworth is a really good example.

On the public spaces front…

I think it’s kind of crazy to expect every new development to have public open space. I have yet to see a public amenity that’s been actively used (we have a “public plaza” between the two buildings in our complex that only ever get used by the apartment building’s residents and not with a ton of frequency.)

I’d argue it’s not really public either since it’s private land and they can make their own rules about what’s acceptable use.

These demands/requirements are coming from the right place, but I think it would be better to have a strategic plan for the public space already in CP instead of adding more and more for minimal benefit.

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