Posts about Maryland
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Breakfast links: So many subsidies
MoCo shells out for Costco; Newt likes subsidies if liberals hate them; WMATA changing flacks; Drunk driver gets 3.5 years for manslaughter; MTA readjusts Purple Line projections; When do cyclists cycle?; CaBi and counting coming to Alexandria; PG’s Johnson to plead guilty; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Speed can be scary
Mt. Vernon Trail not friendly to kids; Speed brings skeletons; This week in hipsterdom; More TOD for PG; More autonomy, more meddling?; Bostonians pinpoint the bus; Midtown Manhattan adds pop-up cafes; Philly reduces sewer overflows; And…. Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Bike to Work, Bike DC, Bikeshare expansion
It’s National Bike Month, and there are a lot of great bicycling-related events coming up as well as a few non-bicycling related ones. Bike To Work Day is next Friday, and the Bike DC ride is the following Sunday. WMATA’s budget hearings are also happening next week. Tomorrow is a conference on bicycling in Montgomery County, sponsored by the Montgomery County Civic… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: There’s still hope
Can bike lanes keep proliferating?; Alexandria still pondering CaBi; DoD could hold BRAC moves; Issa would help DC; Hand wringing over gas prices; Marylands tolls cheap, need raising; Blumenauer wants better commuter benefit; Big racial gap in housing, here & elsewhere; And…. Keep reading…
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Pedestrians still ignored at Silver Spring intersection
Back in February, we showed you a Silver Spring sidewalk closure that violated SHA’s own policies. Three months later, the intersection remains virtually unchanged, and pedestrians are still forced to choose between backtracking nearly 1,000 feet or dashing across a busy highway. In an email last week to both officials and state and county transportation staff,… Keep reading…
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Get to know the Silver Spring Transit Center
With construction well under way, Silver Spring’s new multimodal transit center is rising quickly from the ground. It seems a good time to share details of this important project. The new center will consolidate just about every mode of transit imaginable into a single station, to be named for former US Senator Paul Sarbanes. It will include: 34 bus bays for use by local, commuter,… Keep reading…
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Baltimore’s Kinetic Sculpture Race takes art for a ride
Baltimore’s 13th annual Kinetic Sculpture Race took place this weekend. The race is the American Visionary Art Museum’s “wacky display of art on wheels and in water.” Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Still wanting
USDOT disses Union Station; CMs want more money; Wolf wants VA control of MWAA; All curbside buses at Union Station?; DCPS waiting lists growing; Montgomery to raise parking fees; Few driving the ICC; Metro adding more hybrid buses; Traffic tragedies at all ages. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cuts all around
Cuts could kill?; DCPS cuts 660 jobs; Metro shuts markets; A gentrifier comes to Rosedale; CaBi keeps growing; WABA keeps low profile in Wards 7 & 8; Peds struck, one killed in Loudoun; Federal government to sell property; And…. Keep reading…
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USGA feels sorry for drivers, not Metro riders
Free shuttle service will be offered from free parking lots in Gaithersburg to the US Open tournament at Bethesda’s Congressional Country Club June 13-19. Yet those choosing to take Metro will be forced to pay $8 per day for shuttle service. The shuttles, requiring reservations, will serve a Red Line station that’s much closer to Congressional than the parking… Keep reading…