Posts from May 2016
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Friday is Bike to Work Day. Here’s where to find a pit stop.
Friday is the DC region’s 16th annual Bike to Work Day. It’s a great opportunity to build a few extra minutes into your commute to stop at one of over 80 commuting “pit stops” on your way to (or from) work. Keep reading…
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DC’s homeless shelter plan just got a makeover
In February, Mayor Bowser put forth a plan to replace DC General with seven smaller family shelters around the District. The DC Council just made some key changes: all of the sites will now be city-owned rather than leased, and a few will be in different locations than first planned. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The living isn’t cheap
Six figures for two bedrooms; Watch the boom; Strip mall tease; Filling the Metro gap; Arlington by the numbers; Another avoidable death; False car alarm; Death by TSA; And…. Keep reading…
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Before going to Georgetown, the streetcar will go east to Benning Road
DC is studying ways to extend the streetcar west to Georgetown, but that’s the second extension it will get. First is a project to lengthen it to Benning Road Metro, but questions remain about where tracks will go, overhead wires, and more. Keep reading…
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A streetcar to Georgetown could add a loop ramp under K Street and a pedestrian walkway
DC is planning dedicates lanes for the streetcar almost entirely from Union Station to Georgetown. One tricky spot: from Washington Circle over Rock Creek and I-66 to Georgetown. Here’s how it could work. Keep reading…
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West of Union Station, no overhead streetcar wires
When (and if) DC extends the streetcar from Union Station to Georgetown, it almost certainly won’t use overhead wires, except at stations. Connections in the stations’ canopies will charge supercapacitors for power, according to the latest plans. Keep reading…
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DC’s streetcar may go to Georgetown with dedicated lanes
You read that headline right — dedicated lanes! After lots of transportation experts and pundits said DC’s streetcar needed dedicated lanes if it’s to be valuable, DC transportation planners designed an option for extending the streetcar which devotes a lane for almost all of the length from Union Station to Georgetown. Keep reading…
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Now that it’s open, 7 takeaways from the H Street streetcar
DC’s H Street streetcar has been open two and a half months. With two extensions on the horizon, now is a good time to look back at what’s worked and what hasn’t. Here are seven takeaways from the streetcar’s first season running. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Shelter shifts
Helter shelter; Shelter priorities?; Before the shelter; Toward dedicated Metro funding; Toke tax bonanza; Wavering on the Wiz; Slow on speed restriction communications; Streetcar promo director’s cut; And…. Keep reading…
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There’s bikeshare in College Park now, but it isn’t Capital Bikeshare. Here’s why.
College Park just debuted its own bike share system, called mBike instead of Capital Bikeshare (CaBi). Some say not going with CaBi was a mistake, but it looks like College Park made a rational decision. Keep reading…