Posts from February 2016
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Breakfast links: Trampled by teenagers
Green line shooting; Unscheduled stop; Up in smoke; All things considered; Alley zoning; Hello Havana; Architectural fashion; Dubious honors; Pop pop-up. Keep reading…
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Five trains, 20 buses, one awesome transit nerd poster
Between rail, bus, and now the streetcar, there are quite a few ways to get around our region by transit. I made an illustration of the vehicles our extensive network uses. Can you identify all of them? The answers are after the jump! Keep reading…
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Think you know Metro? It’s whichWMATA week 78
It’s time for the seventy-eighth installment of our weekly “whichWMATA” series! Below are photos of five stations in the Washington Metro system. Can you identify each from its picture? Keep reading…
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A bridge from Eckington to Union Market? It could happen.
In exchange for support to build retail and housing in Eckington, developer JBG has offered to fund a study of what it’d take to build a bridge that connects the Metropolitan Branch Trail and Union Market. That’d be a big step in joining Eckington and NoMa. Keep reading…
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The DC Streetcar starts service on Saturday. It took a wild ride to get here.
When DC’s H Street and Benning Road streetcar opens on February 27, it’ll run on rails that were first installed almost seven years earlier. We’ve been talking about this project since 2008, with hundreds of posts. The following is a little walk down memory lane to look at everything that’s happened. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Wizarding games
Nobody beats the wiz; Wi-fi for DC; Federal agencies fight over Metro; No answer to the crowds; Driving more; The bus is on fire; Transparent taxis; Know your domes. Keep reading…
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We’re more than halfway to our reader drive goal! Can you help us get there?
Thanks to our terrific readers and sponsors of our party, our 2016 reader drive has raised $13,735 so far toward our goal of $25,000. Thank you! If you haven’t given yet, can you contribute today? We kicked off the drive on our 8th birthday, February 5, and it will run about one month, until our party on March 8. That means we’re just about halfway to the end of the drive… Keep reading…
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Events roundup: Growth and preservation in DC
Discuss growth and historic preservation in DC with Mayor Bowswer, ride the streetcar, and save the date for Greater Greater Washington’s 8th birthday party! Also, share your opinion on changes to buses and your experience with Snowzilla in Arlington. Preservation and planning in DC: DC is likely to grow to 800,000 people, but how? On Tuesday, March 1, historic preservationists,… Keep reading…
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Here’s why the DC region has so many bus systems
There are more than 20 separate bus agencies in the Washington area. Why not run them all as part of WMATA? Some run outside WMATA’s geography, but the bigger reason is money: It costs less to run a local bus than a WMATA bus, translating to better service for less money on local lines. Keep reading…
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Could a Fairfax school turn into an urban street grid?
In 2019, the private school Paul VI will move to Loudoun County from its Fairfax City campus. Plans for what to do with the land are starting to take shape, and there’s a big opportunity to make the space walkable and transit-friendly. Keep reading…