Dan Malouff

Boulder

Madison. 📸Jonathan Geiger via flickr

Portland. 📸 Oregon state DOT

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.

Approved: Controversial Apartment Complex to be Redeveloped as Single Family Home with Anti-Racist Reflecting Pool Construction crew to break ground Monday after town immediately gives enthusiastic consent

"Controversial Apartment Complex to be Redeveloped as Single Family Home with Anti-Racist Reflecting Pool"

“A large plaque will be installed outside the property's porte-cochère reminding passersby that they are on stolen land."

www.marinlately.com/p/approved-c...

rendering of proposed arch

Feds propose arch on Memorial Circle:

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

a wmata ad for ai warfare

killer ai war machine that went horribly wrong

killer ai war machine that went horribly wrong

killer ai domestic servant that went horribly wrong

Todays #WMATAad is AI for warplanes, which will definitely not go horribly wrong.

Second through fourth pictures are unrelated.

Hello to the entire sorority that just boarded my Metro train.

Also hello to the dozen or so dudes who all sucked in their guts at exactly the same moment.

Metro might be doing this guy & his hot date a favor here

A bittersweet farewell to our 2000-series! 🚇
 
Today, we removed the final one from Greenbelt Rail Yard. These trains were first introduced in the early 1980s, operated nearly 200M miles, and carried more than 775M passengers.
 
Now, we’re making way for our 8000-series! 👋

I was reading a study not too long ago that tracked civilizations through history and found that on average they get about 300 years of healthy evolution & growth before their own status quos start weighing them down and things start falling apart under their own weight.

And, uh...

I suspect some parents do not mind having mental down time in their day where they can switch off their parenting brains and exhale.

I wonder if it tracks across parents of all age kids, or is different for elementary kids vs teens.

Map showing how filling the land along the Anacostia River banks could create new neighborhoods.

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...

They can do joint orders with Honolulu.

Map of Townsville

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."

Baltimore's bigger Howard Street freight tunnel opened today, doubling capacity through that corridor. A big win for sustainable freight!

And also it's kind of a shame that on the exact same route, LRT trains for humans don't get a subway, and sit at red lights on the street directly above.

Alexandria’s proposed tallest building heads to Planning Commission in November | ALXnow A proposal to build a 365-foot-tall residential building with up to 775 units and 40,000 square feet of ground-floor retail in Alexandria's Carlyle neighborhood is heading to the Planning Commission. ...

At 365' this would be among the ten tallest highrises in the DC region. Tallest is the 470' Capital One tower in Tysons.

www.alxnow.com/2025/09/25/a...

a woman in a blue scrub top is standing in front of a door with #schittscreek written on it Alt: gif of woman walking closer to focus on the person talking

I am at your disposal 🫣🤣

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...

Map of Metro lines all over everywhere

#WMATA if Tylenol caused Autism

Play GGWash Junctions weekly word puzzle #18 View this post on ggwash.org

Junctions 18 is here! Group words and phrases to test your knowledge of urban and Washington region themes.

the senate subway

The Senate subway has platform screen doors.

www.reddit.com/r/trains/com...

Roughly 2 million people live inside the Washington Beltway.

This is up from about 1.6 million in 1990.

skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpo...

RFK Stadium neighborhood delayed beyond 2030 Building a neighborhood around the new Commanders stadium will take longer than expected — because of a little-noticed provision.

How many hours ago was the stadium deal approved?

www.axios.com/local/washin...

Play GGWash Junctions weekly word puzzle #17 View this post on ggwash.org

In this week's Junctions, Hitachi, Shirlington, CDMX, and more:

This is obviously correct but in NU's defense, we probably needed to go through that experience in order to learn this lesson.

Looking at this narrow tram stop, I ask myself the forever question of design:

"Is it ok to settle for something that improves over the previous conditions (on-street boarding) but does not meet the full standard for proper accessibility?"

Screencap of link describing parking rules in ancient Nineveh.

TIL parking restrictions date back to 700 BCE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...

Map of existing & proposed layouts of Twinbook station

WMATA looking to replace parking lots at Twinbrook station with urban development & a plaza.
www.wmata.com/about/news/M...

Screencap of tweet from 2024 when I photographed a former DC taxicab on Colfax Avenue in Denver.

Clearly we got the better end of this trade. Hopefully Denver got some draft picks or something too.

I found a Denver bus in DC YouTube video by Trains Are Awesome

Lol there's a whole youtube video about tracking this bus down. Also I spy @oneonetwo.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?si=z4X...

Why's there a Denver RTD bus sitting under I-695 in DC? 😆

The details are so great though! For example the section about how the mansions of shipping barons evolved into the office downtown.

Really worth the read imo