Posts tagged Transit
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Ward 2 council candidates respond to Jack Evans’ bullying WMATA officials
News broke from the Washington Post last week that Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans threatened WMATA officials in order to hide the results of their investigation into his ethics violations. This comes after previous revelations that Evans leveraged his political positions to gain personal consulting gigs. Keep reading…
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Taking a bus across Virginia is now a Breeze
While most bus systems across America face a lack of investment and ridership figures scraping 30-year lows, the latest addition to Virginia’s transportation ecosystem cannot grow fast enough. The Commonwealth’s Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) debuted the Virginia Breeze in November 2017 through a public-private partnership with Megabus. Keep reading…
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Jack Evans threatened Metro officials to keep his corruption secret, and two board members helped him
DC Councilmember Jack Evans (ward 2) not only allegedly tried to help companies paying him as a lobbyist while chair of the WMATA board, but threatened two top WMATA staff members to try to keep it quiet, according to a bombshell revelation from Robert McCartney in the Washington Post. Keep reading…
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11 sports venues you can get to on transit
Nothing brings together a city much like its sports teams, and DC is fortunate to be represented by all five major sports leagues as well as lesser known leagues and a wealth of college teams. Happily for those of us who don’t drive, most of them are pretty accessible by transit, too. Keep reading…
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These new development rules are made for walking
Construction and fire codes ensure that a new building won’t be the seed of a 19th-century-style urban conflagration. Inclusionary zoning ensures that at least some space will be set aside for economically-excluded residents. And now, a new suite of requirements will ensure that new buildings improve the walkability of the neighborhoods that surround them. Keep reading…
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Ellen Jones will be DDOT’s new Chief Project Delivery Officer
When Sam Zimbabwe left to head Seattle’s Department of Transportation, he left some big shoes to fill. That position will now go to Ellen Jones, who is currently Deputy Executive Director of the Downtown DC Business Improvement District and previously headed up the Washington Area Bicyclist Association. Keep reading…
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National links: Roosting, schooling, lizarding, and other things we do in public spaces
Turns out humans have some interesting patterns of behavior in public spaces. QR codes cause a bottleneck in pay queues for commuters in China. Salt Lake City residents want free buses, a poll shows. Keep reading…
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MoCo advances two bus rapid transit projects on Route 355 and Veirs Mill Road
On July 30, the Montgomery County Council advanced two long-awaited Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects on MD-355 and Veirs Mill Road to the next stage of engineering. However, the Council put off selecting a preferred design for BRT on MD-355, and it’s not clear when it will decide. Keep reading…
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Why do we use colors to name our transit lines?
There are numerous ways to distinguish transit lines, including using unique names or symbols. Here and many places elsewhere, our subway goes with colors. That’s because colors are a simple and user-friendly way to organize a system. Keep reading…
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Richmond used to be a transit leader. Is it ready to be one again?
Today, in Richmond, “transit” means the bus. One might think that the city which debuted the world’s first electric streetcar may have bucked the trend against transit after World War II and preserved its historic transportation system. Instead, Richmond burned them, and local transit hasn’t really rebounced since then. Keep reading…