Wednesday, June 17, 2009
NYT: Green Drinking at the Pug
The New York Times reports that the Pug hopes to make its bloody marys this summer from chilies and tomatoes grown on its green roof. As you will recall, there are incentives for businesses along the H Street Corridor to install green roofs, and DC Greenworks obtained a grant for the installation of numerous such roofs on the Street.
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Off subject-
Are they installing railroad tracks around 6th and H area? I swear driving by there yesterday I noticed Rails being installed.
HHMmmm
The tracks are for the infamous "street car" line that will eventually grace our area in the year 2065.
On Subject---the Pug rules. Do they let people go up and see the roof? Maybe a "Green Happy Hour" up there on nice summer evenings?
Brilliant - I'd love to feel like I'm helping society and the earth by drinking in the morning. Go Pug.
Weird that we should learn of this via the New York Times. The reporter otherwise seems to be dedicated full-time to coverage of the White House kitchen, primarily Michelle Obama's vegetable garden.
Hey,
I saw the street car railroad tracks @ 5th and H street,nice.Is there anybody that has information or time line for the trolly project completion.
THERE IS NO FREAKIN' TROLLY IN THE WORKS!!! Where have you been? Tracks laid will be ONLY on H between 3rd and 14th...NO OTHER PLAN EXISTS! Geez!
I thought the tracks were being installed after the Starbusrt instersection was completed? Apparently the information is not being passed out. Seems the talk on here was that it was utilities being upgraded etc... But i saw tracks with my own eyes yesterday....Progress I would say....
HHmmmmm
Gotta admit this is halarious, Maybe the Pug can start grow some potatos for home brewed vodka for those Bloody Marys.
Go Tony T. Rachel Carson would be proud.
Hey I saw rails as well, power supply be damed, maybe we can have some of those human powered flat bed things like on Rockie and bulwninkle.
Whose in charge of this DDOT or WAMTA?
green marketing is the hottest thing out. the pug is smart to tap in now.
looking forward to more info about those tracks
The tacks are being installed from 3rd to along Benning Road. The tracks will be on the out side lane and then switch to center lane after the Starburst. If you bone heads attempt to venture out you might notice more
Ah I would venture out more, but I'm afraid that I step in Poo Pooo while doing so... After all it's not so cute to walk around H St smelling like Poo Poo, yah dig?
why we don't have rails.
Beginning in the 1920s, General Motors began investing in mass transit systems. According to historian Marty Jezer (and Congressional hearings held in 1974), between 1920 and 1955, General Motors bought up more than 100 electric mass transit systems in 45 cities, allowed them to deteriorate, and then replaced them with rubber-tired, diesel-powered buses. Buses are more expensive, less efficient, and much dirtier than electric/rail systems. (And of course automobiles are even less efficient than buses, by far.) In 1949, General Motors, Firestone Rubber, and Standard Oil of California were convicted by a federal jury of criminally conspiring to replace electric mass transit with GM-manufactured diesel buses; in a noteworthy illustration of justice for corporations, the court fined GM $5000 and forced H.C. Crossman, the GM executive responsible for carrying out GM’s policy, to pay $1.00.
if poo poo's story is true, maybe their recent bankruptcy is karma? ha.
i think karma would involve Soul sercher and poo poo getting hit by one of these buses (or rail cars, whatever) while sharing a warm embrace in the middle of the street.
At least GM used to manufacture buses. My understanding is that the trolley cars for this system have already been purchased from someplace in Eastern Europe.
GM needs to immediately retool one of their shuttered factories to make rolling stock - light rail, subway and passenger rail cars.
Poopoo- is it true that when the tracks on H and Benning are completely installed they will be paved over until such time that we actually get the streetcars here from The Check Republic in 5 years or so?
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