darren is Not Going Back @bikepedantic@transportation.social

Anyway, hopefully a bullet is being very slowly dodged, and Arlington's Seaport is eventually replaced with Arlington's Kendall Square.

*If fewer Amazonians will be driving to the office every day, perhaps the 4,000 new parking spaces planned were A Bad Idea That Don't Belong in Arlington's New Downtown.

*How many more years will Arlington hold open all the extra arterial roadway capacity for the more peak hour cars that won't and shouldn't come to Pentagon City?

*If the Route 1 boulevard, that no one except the developers actually wants or benefits from, wasn't the primary state investment in local infrastructure, maybe the community would have more other improvements in the pipeline to look forward to.

*If HQ2 stopping stops promised improvements to the neighborhood, that seems like some bad planning, and perhaps more of those improvements should have been initiated under a PPP entity

Can't resist, let's do some told-ya-so:

*If the megablock was broken up into more smaller-footprint parcels, maybe we'd be talking about partial buildout and repurposing. Instead, Helix and useless private lawn.

*If the Sector Plan didn't just copy-paste Amazon's plans, other planned and potential projects wouldn't be essentially frozen in place.

Anyway, the craptacular Amazon-centric Pentagon City Sector Plan is, only a year after enactment, now basically unimplementable and hopefully irrelevant, so that's good https://www.arlingtonva.us/files/sharedassets/public/projects/documents/pentagon-city-planning-study/pentagoncitysectorplan_final_for_print.pdf

latest ted lasso, amirite?

Sure enough, we hit for the vegetarian-solar-passivehaus-electrify cycle, not a word about maybe not driving so much!

“Buy appliances that are Energy Star rated!”

“Thanks, 1998! I’ll haul them home in my GMC Suburban!”

I choose to believe that there are at least a couple of folks at the station who love this irony. It’s like the Sunday morning weather guy and some 20-something news copy writer, but still, the contrast is pretty stark.

The Great Unchecking of the legacy bluechecks appears to be underway back on twitter. So if you need a laugh, pop your head back in and watch some high-achievers pretend to be nonplussed.

if i showed you this statement, followed by this cross-section, would you say this was a place that's planning for more bicycling?

Might give ‘em a week to simmer, then try some reverse-auction-style lowballing