The good: DDOT is studying installation of exclusive transit lanes in Georgetown. Short of spending untold billions on a new subway or ruining Georgetown’s character with an el, the only way to provide decent transit service to M and Wisconsin will be to dedicate part of the surface streets. For years naysayers have insisted that M Street isn’t wide enough to accommodate transit, and that all six lanes of it (including parking) have to be given over to cars at all times, lest the world end. Good on DDOT for considering that maybe 17% (one sixth) of a street isn’t too much to ask in exchange for serving by transit one of the city’s most walkable neighborhoods.

The bad: Virginia’s Supreme Court on Friday struck a blow to the Tysons Metro project, reviving a lawsuit filed by transit opponents that had been struck down by a lower court. At issue is whether it was constitutional for Governor Kaine to transfer the Dulles Toll Road to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority without General Assembly Action. A Circuit Court originally ruled that the state was protected from the lawsuit by sovereign immunity, but the Supreme Court disagreed and on Friday ordered the Circuit Court to take up the case again and decide it on its own merit. The Airports Authority plans to raise fares on the toll road in order to provide construction funds for the Silver Line, so a negative ruling by the Circuit Court could hurt or delay Virginia’s ability to pay its share of construction costs.

The ugly: Homeowners in a Bethesda neighborhood are upset that Montgomery County wants to locate a group home for people with disabilities on a piece of land the locals had hoped would be used to expand an existing park. The fact that for years residents in the Hillmead neighborhood opposed the previous landowner’s plan to build four houses on the property suggests these folks suffer from a sense of misplaced entitlement. They think they deserve a bigger luxury more than other people deserve a basic human need. Shameful enough when targeting the sort of upper middle class family likely to buy one of the originally proposed houses, but when targeting the disabled? Disgraceful.