Dan Malouff
@beyonddc.bsky.social
Urbanism & transportation, WashDC.
Planner, professor, longtime GGWash.
Not here for the doom & dunks.
Planner, professor, longtime GGWash.
Not here for the doom & dunks.
Alon has a northern Hudson crossing on that map! Alon's is probably better but these are similar ideas both connecting northern Manhattan. So what's the problem?
January 14, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Alon has a northern Hudson crossing on that map! Alon's is probably better but these are similar ideas both connecting northern Manhattan. So what's the problem?
Do any US cities have big urban windfarms like Antwerp here?
Not just 1 or 2 windmills, and not way out in the sticks or sea. Big windfarms with several, reasonably "in the city."
📸globalphotos.org
Not just 1 or 2 windmills, and not way out in the sticks or sea. Big windfarms with several, reasonably "in the city."
📸globalphotos.org
January 13, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Do any US cities have big urban windfarms like Antwerp here?
Not just 1 or 2 windmills, and not way out in the sticks or sea. Big windfarms with several, reasonably "in the city."
📸globalphotos.org
Not just 1 or 2 windmills, and not way out in the sticks or sea. Big windfarms with several, reasonably "in the city."
📸globalphotos.org
Does anyone else get the thing where occasionally Google Maps decides Pigeon Forge is a major city?
January 6, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Does anyone else get the thing where occasionally Google Maps decides Pigeon Forge is a major city?
Oh, wow. NPS is fixing *several* broken DC fountains. Not just Meridian Park. Also Columbus Circle, Rawlins Park, Freedom Plaza... more
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
January 5, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Oh, wow. NPS is fixing *several* broken DC fountains. Not just Meridian Park. Also Columbus Circle, Rawlins Park, Freedom Plaza... more
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Post a transit selfie from 2025
(Hopping on board the "not actually a selfie train" and there's nothing you can do to stop me!)
(Hopping on board the "not actually a selfie train" and there's nothing you can do to stop me!)
January 1, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Post a transit selfie from 2025
(Hopping on board the "not actually a selfie train" and there's nothing you can do to stop me!)
(Hopping on board the "not actually a selfie train" and there's nothing you can do to stop me!)
Suburbs trying to make stroads work for people outside cars—without ever making drivers slow down—are yielding... let's say interesting experiments.
December 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Suburbs trying to make stroads work for people outside cars—without ever making drivers slow down—are yielding... let's say interesting experiments.
Caroling at Court House Metro.
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Caroling at Court House Metro.
Spent Black Friday going to the park and looking at murals. Recommend.
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Spent Black Friday going to the park and looking at murals. Recommend.
Forgive my foaming, but y'all, you can see the #PurpleLineMD trains outside the Glenridge railyard.
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Forgive my foaming, but y'all, you can see the #PurpleLineMD trains outside the Glenridge railyard.
This morning's bike lane leaf sweeper is the least objectionable vehicle to ever block my bike lane.
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This morning's bike lane leaf sweeper is the least objectionable vehicle to ever block my bike lane.
Staring into the void of an empty Moscow metro train with its open gangways.
📸 u/Mediocre_Ebb_1133 www.reddit.com/r/transit/co...
📸 u/Mediocre_Ebb_1133 www.reddit.com/r/transit/co...
October 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Staring into the void of an empty Moscow metro train with its open gangways.
📸 u/Mediocre_Ebb_1133 www.reddit.com/r/transit/co...
📸 u/Mediocre_Ebb_1133 www.reddit.com/r/transit/co...
Nice dedicated median busway in [checks notes] Provo, Utah.
DC's still waiting on a mayor who's willing.
DC's still waiting on a mayor who's willing.
October 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Nice dedicated median busway in [checks notes] Provo, Utah.
DC's still waiting on a mayor who's willing.
DC's still waiting on a mayor who's willing.
Found Waldo in Loudoun County
October 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Found Waldo in Loudoun County
The way we normalize killing people with cars in this country is genuinely insane
October 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The way we normalize killing people with cars in this country is genuinely insane
One of the mental games I play sometimes is "What would Boulder look like today if it hadn't spent 50 years trying to avoid changing" and I think the answer is something between Madison and Portland.
October 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
One of the mental games I play sometimes is "What would Boulder look like today if it hadn't spent 50 years trying to avoid changing" and I think the answer is something between Madison and Portland.
October 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Metro might be doing this guy & his hot date a favor here
October 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Metro might be doing this guy & his hot date a favor here
Early 2000s-era proposal to narrow the Anacostia River and use the new land for hundreds of blocks of new development.
Read more in this 2009 story from @jgbollard.bsky.social: ggwash.org/view/3158/mc...
Read more in this 2009 story from @jgbollard.bsky.social: ggwash.org/view/3158/mc...
September 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Early 2000s-era proposal to narrow the Anacostia River and use the new land for hundreds of blocks of new development.
Read more in this 2009 story from @jgbollard.bsky.social: ggwash.org/view/3158/mc...
Read more in this 2009 story from @jgbollard.bsky.social: ggwash.org/view/3158/mc...
One of the all time branding screw ups is that Townsville City, Australia--a real place, perfectly named--calls its bus and ferry systems "Kinetic" and "SeaLink" rather than "Bus" and "Boat."
September 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
One of the all time branding screw ups is that Townsville City, Australia--a real place, perfectly named--calls its bus and ferry systems "Kinetic" and "SeaLink" rather than "Bus" and "Boat."
We should absolutely not change our zoning to let McDonalds enlarge a ton of drive-throughs all over town. Hell no.
www-bizjournals-com.dclibrary.idm.oclc.org/washington/n...
www-bizjournals-com.dclibrary.idm.oclc.org/washington/n...
September 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
We should absolutely not change our zoning to let McDonalds enlarge a ton of drive-throughs all over town. Hell no.
www-bizjournals-com.dclibrary.idm.oclc.org/washington/n...
www-bizjournals-com.dclibrary.idm.oclc.org/washington/n...
September 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
TIL parking restrictions date back to 700 BCE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
September 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
TIL parking restrictions date back to 700 BCE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
WMATA looking to replace parking lots at Twinbrook station with urban development & a plaza.
www.wmata.com/about/news/M...
www.wmata.com/about/news/M...
September 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
WMATA looking to replace parking lots at Twinbrook station with urban development & a plaza.
www.wmata.com/about/news/M...
www.wmata.com/about/news/M...