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Neighborhood Wiki Watch
- My Hyattsville website/Community wiki
- "Where the neighbors know virtually everything: Residents turn to the Web to strengthen communities" -- Gazette article shines light on local listservs and wikis
- "‘Bytes’ of Hyattsville culture available at networking site" -- Hyattsville Life & Times article by Laurie White discusses growing role of Hyattsville and Riverdale Park wikis
Blogs of local interest
- RP-TownTalk blog (archive of all TownTalk posts)
- Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space (Richard Layman's blog)
- Dwight Holmes' RP Coffeehouse blog
- Route 1 Growth (for concerned citizens & officials in NW Prince George's County, MD)
- Rethink College Park - Helping imagine a great college town for a great university
- Marc Molino’s RP arts blog
- David Hiles’ Riverdale Park Ward 2 blog
Local newspapers
Local news items
Local web sites & groups
Transportation- MARCTracker (Online train status)
- WMATA (Metro trains/Metro bus)
- Hyattsville Bikers Unite
- also see "Hiker-Biker Stuff," below
Government
- Town of Riverdale Park MD Interim Website
- Town of Riverdale Park’s official TownTalk email list signup
- Prince George's County Official Website
Community
- Riverdaleparkies Yahoo Group (“Freely discuss living in Riverdale Park)
- Riverdale Park Farmers Market
- RIverdale Park Holiday Market
- HOPE_in_Hyattsville • H.O.P.E. Hyattsville, MD -- Good, active email listgroup with an environmental bent
- Hyattsville H4X ('Hyattsville Hacks') Community Podcast
- My Hyattsville website/Community wiki
- Hyattsville Bikers Unite
- Riverdalerailfans Yahoo Group (“Riverdale Railfans Association”) -- Great local photos from a traincentric point of view!
- Opussum Society (thanks, Alan!)
Data
New development projects in our area
- Route 1 Gateway Arts District http://www.mncppc.org/cpd/arts.htm
- Cafritz Property's Website
- M SQUARE: UMd/College Park/Riverdale Park "M Square" Development http://www.msquare.umd.edu/thepark/images/master_plan/81506_site_planlg.jpg
- EYA EYA (Rt. 1) Hyattsville
- EAST CAMPUS UMd/College Park "East Campus" Development http://www.eastcampus.umd.edu/
- Riverdale Park's Mixed Use Town Center Zoning Map http://www.mncppc.org/cpd/riverdalepark.htm#map
- University Town Center (Hyattsville) http://www.universitytowncenter.net/interactive_map.html
- Landy Property (Hyattsville)
Maps & Imagery
- Gmap-pedometer: Measure (& save) your walk or bike ride on the map!
- Map of Riverdale Park MD Trolley Hiker-Biker Trail and Cafritz Property
- pgatlas.com - MNCPPC's Prince George's GIS Atlas where you can look up who owns what and lots of other good info (apparently you must use IE to use this)
- Area Bike-Ped Transportation Map (Rethink College Park)
- College Park Area Development Map (Rethink College Park)
- Historical Marker Database List of Historical Markers in Riverdale
- Anacostia Trails Map (and Info)
- Route 1 Gateway Arts District Map
- Metropolitan Branch Trail (incl West Hyattsville Spur Connector
- WashCycle Bike Trail Map (Google Overlay - All Metro Area Trails
- TerraServer Imagery: Riverdale Park
Hiker - Biker Stuff
- ACTION ITEM: Sign on to WABA letter to the Powers-that-Be in PG County to fund the many bike friendly projects
- Map out and measure your route using Gmap -- and save the map, too.
- MARC Trains (live tracker & other info)
- WMATA (Metro trains/Metro bus)
- Heard of a "Bike Bus"? Read about this eco-friendly commute idea from Australian website
- Bicycle and Trails Advisory Group (BTAG, PG Co. Planning Dept)
- Washington Area Cycle News Updates
- College Park Area Bicycle Coalition
- Washington Area Bicyclist Association
- Hyattsville Bikers Unite (Yahoo group)
- Rails to Trails Conservancy Group
History, news articles & documents
- ERCO Field (Airport) & Factory History (with photos and maps)
- Trains: A "railfan's" photo journal of the CSX tracks, with some good historical links
- Online Community Survey for Riverdale Park (July 2006)
- Hyattsville Legacy Trail, Concept Plan (PowerPoint) 2/17/04 - includes Trolley Line Hiker-Biker Trail
- "Seeing a Future Along Old Tracks: History, Opportunity Intersect in Rail Town Housing," Washington Post article 7/8/06
- Residents want retail, restaurants at Riverdale Park town center (article in The Gazette,Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007)
- Gazette article shines light on local listservs and wikis (Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007)
- Washington Post article on Good Luck Rd - listing many historical hints that maybe its luck isn't so good after all... -- Good Luck Rd is one of those rare roads in our area that gives you the illusion of not being captive in a metropolitan area that is plagued by the metastasizing cancer of chain stores and big boxes...
