Recent Posts
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Metro workers afraid to report hazards, Board unfazed
Some 30% of Metro employees don’t report safety hazards for fear of retaliation. That’s according to testimony from Metro General Manager Sarles at the most recent Metro Board meeting, which included the results of an employee survey of Metro’s safety culture. If that isn’t alarming enough, the response of the Chair of the Metro Board will… Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Bike share, Bloomingdale and BRAC
What’s the right bikeshare density?; Cycling is safer in numbers; Bloomingdale supports good urbanism; Modest BRAC impact in PG; Loudoun teacher wins big prize; Keynesian economies; No such thing as full employment. Keep reading…
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How should the region’s transit grow?
How should the Washington region grow its transit system to benefit users across the region? Will the streetcar and rapid bus projects create into a disjointed patchwork or will they mesh well across jurisdictional borders? How can Metrorail avoid running out of capacity by 2040? These are some questions regional officials ought to be discussing, but mainly aren’t. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dangerous for pedestrians and Transformers
Struck in Montgomery County; Transformers unscripted; Virginia to keep WMATA seats for now; The Monday Metropocalypse that wasn’t; Exercising her right to pee; DC a bargain for singles, PG for families; Chevy Chase retail less limited; Step it up. Keep reading…
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Struck in DC this week: Unknown
Unfortunately, the DC Fire and EMS Twitter feed has stopped reporting ped and cyclist struck incidents. Therefore, the statistics Struck in DC has been gathering on a weekly basis are no longer consistent or accurate and we won’t be mapping this week’s incidents. Keep reading…
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Prince George’s plans revised bus service in Greenbelt
The Prince George’s County Department of Public Works and Transportation is planning changes to TheBus service on all 4 routes operating out of Greenbelt Station. Prince George’s wants to better allocate resources to run buses at higher frequency. But several Berwyn Heights officials are upset about the plan, because they think residents don’t want —… Keep reading…
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For walkability, install public privies
There are many amenities that residents of a major city in the developed world should be able to take for granted, and one basic and often-overlooked aspect of infrastructure that is severely lacking in most US cities is the public restroom. A stunning graphic appeared in the September/October 2007 issue of GOOD Magazine showing how inferior major US cities are compared to their… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The (hazardous?) future of cars
This car really could hit a pedestrian; More driving distractions or a ban?; Not enough money for transit; DC spares federal bike funding; More highways not the only choice; Drill, baby, drill; An IBM planet?. Keep reading…
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Readers finding success bridging Metro gap with CaBi
A few readers have reported successfully using Capital Bikeshare to traverse downtown during this weekend’s Orange and Blue Line trackwork. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Full of potential
The art of bikeshare redistribution; Streetcars and intensification; What’s up with conservatives and transit? Another view; Secret garden; Liquor license newspeak; Evicted from a bike locker?; Healing the freeway gash; Stop removal courage. Keep reading…