Posts tagged Wmata
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Breakfast links: Happy New Year
A growing city; Charles County sprawlway; The ridership is right; C for yourself; Busted!; Is that multi-state inter-agency cooperation I see?; What’s driving business?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Put your hands up for Detroit
Seed money; Honey, I shrunk the city; Something to be MADD about?; Spic-and-span; The year in development; Running away from consequences. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Ending the year, beginning construction
MARC explains why not; Top ten for transit; Killed in Columbia Heights, injured in Rockville; Great Streets construction; Free speech on the Metrobus; Metro and the federal government, together forever; Tax abatements for Donatelli. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More transit next week, less overall
Holiday transit; Rail ridership declined everywhere; Peter Craig, freeway fighter; Kaine’s biggest regret; Highways are socialism; Contributions drove Accokeek?; What killed the Vegas Monorail; Why not advertise to parking commuters?. Keep reading…
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Zimmerman, Hudgins pushed for public discussion of budget
The WMATA Board discussed proposed service cuts for Fiscal Year 2010 as a surprise addition to the agenda last week, but they almost didn’t discuss it in public at all. They will be reconvening on Thursday, January 7th to discuss the proposals. There is some urgency to make the changes since the longer Metro waits to cut, the worse cuts (or fare increases) must be to balance… Keep reading…
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A new late-night map to soften the blow of Metrorail cuts
The proposed cuts to Metrobus and Metrorail for the current fiscal year, which could go into effect as soon as January, include a plan to reduce rail headways to 30 minutes at night. Currently, trains come about every 20 minutes on each line. Where two lines run together, headways are about 10 minutes. The Red Line has scheduled headways of 15 minutes, but with trackwork every evening… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Consequences of snow
Sidesnowpiles; Two pedestrians die; You can’t save a space; Post ignores own staff and blogs to get story wrong?; Free parking means no parking; Arlington in DC all along?; And…. Keep reading…
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Infrequent airport buses offer a lackluster welcome
There are a variety of ways to get to Washington’s 3 airports. By far the most convenient way from downtown is to take Metro to nearby National Airport. But Metro does not make it out to Dulles or BWI International Airports. Passengers arriving on international flights face a lengthy ride into Washington from either airport, but the length itself is not the only impediment… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Spiral up, not down
Death spiral alert; Improve buses instead of creating new ones; Be Montgomery Planning Board Chair; Fairfax creates Dulles rail tax district; How to fight a project; Gun + snowballs = “inappropriate”; Let me off the plane. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Digging out
Not the DC of yore; Metro back in business; CNN ascribes motives other than fun to snowballers; Heads gotta roll; Next train gadget; Bike sharing? That’s not roads, so bad!; Queen on the train. Keep reading…