Washington DC

DC's RFK stadium plan skips a new Metrorail station entirely, leaving roughly 20,000 gameday trips unaccounted for by car, transit, or foot. WMATA says a station would cost over $1 billion.

— via Greater Greater Washington, Nick Sementelli (Board of Directors), Alex Baca (DC Policy Director)

Homeowners' median net worth runs 40 times higher than renters', and tax reforms in states nationwide are widening that gap by shifting costs onto apartment buildings. Colorado's new "Tenant Equity Vehicle" offers one fix, plus lessons from New York's congestion pricing fight and a look at taxing empty robotaxis.

— via Greater Greater Washington, Jeff Wood (Contributor)

After a brutal round last week, this week's GGWash Junctions puzzle #60 eases up, with only minimal trickery in the 16-word grid. Unlike the NYT's Connections, this version lets you guess as many times as it takes to solve it.

— via Greater Greater Washington, BeyondDC

Traffic noise is tied to roughly 6,330 premature cardiovascular deaths a year in the US, plus 13,600 new diabetes cases and 3.3 million disrupted sleepers. Cutting neighborhood noise by just five decibels could erase 39% of that toll.

— via Greater Greater Washington, David Rojas-Rueda

Maryland's fix for the aging, gridlocked American Legion Bridge is the same toll-lane plan it shelved in 2023, and it still counts cars instead of the people stuck in them. A software engineer married across the Potomac argues the real problem is nobody owns the whole failure.

— via Greater Greater Washington, Max Gao