Posts tagged Air Travel
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Breakfast links: Remembering and moving on
Memories stay secure; “Mile-high club” couple triggers scare; Emergency response still muddy; Financial disclosure or erosion of home rule?; Is this development crime-resistant?; Car-free easier and more popular; New MLK road signs confusing; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Quick expiration
Once you pop, the scandals don’t stop; Driver intentionally hits cyclist; House bill doesn’t cut Metro funding; Silver Line snippets; Don’t photograph anything in DC; Mark Center: planning disaster, terror disaster; Cathedral crane crashes; Great Streets delay elicits ire; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Overtime, over budget, overdrive
Metro workers pulling long hours; Silver Line funding still in question; AAA still fighting for speeders; Program matches parents for carpools; What’s “just right” for porch height; MLK Memorial will open to all; Arlington marks scandal and intrigue; Satire map plots stereotypes; Could an overlay stop more churches on RI Ave?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Won’t you be my neighbor?
Military base tries to create its own version of DC; Social services are a delicate task; WMATA stops fighting union raises; NPS enhacing citizen experience; Are drug laws racist?; Government finances run on cycles; DC has another revolving door of lobbyists; And…. Keep reading…
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Stop distorting the cost of living with anti-urban subsidies
From rural air service to military base sitings to post office closings, many federal policies pick winners and losers among places for people to live. Exurban communities require much more expensive infrastructure, yet policymakers cling to a system that rewards building or living on cheap land but has the government subsidizing all the other associated costs. The Federal… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Tracks in the sky
No streetcar under H Street bridge; Dulles Metro now in the air; Few takers for NIH bike benefit; Boston bikeshare won’t go everywhere; WMATA board turnover not smart; Gray considers plant closure; Transit- and trash-oriented development; Then and now in a single photo; And…. Keep reading…
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Ask GGW: What will the Metro fare to Dulles be?
What will the fare be on the Silver Line, such as from downtown to Dulles Airport? Metro has not announced fares for the line yet, but we can offer some estimates based on today’s fares. In short, unless the current fare caps are changed, the answer would be $5 peak, $2.75 off-peak, with Fairfax and Loudoun paying big extra subsidies. More likely, the fare would be something… Keep reading…
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GGW debates: Build Metro above or below ground at Dulles?
On Wednesday, DC Mayor Vince Gray became the latest public figure to enter the fray over the proposed Metro stop at Dulles Airport. Today, our contributors are weighing in. With costs rising, a vote by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority to support an underground station has pitted elected officials against each other over the location of the future stop. And the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Follow the money
Team Thomas spends on luxuries; Imagine the L Street cycletrack; Ike Memorial has windshield perspective; Gray supports aerial Dulles station; Gowdy, unexpected champion of DC autonomy; Rage against the machine; Hate crimes shift, but still under-reported; Community polices trail; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More Virginia Metro, less DC development
Potomac Yard station has options; New ideas “surface” to cut Silver Line costs; Projects shrink, opponents still oppose; No Megabus, no videotaping; MPD stops photography, gets sued; Greening or green-washing?; Johnson stays on council… for now; Interesting transit ideas; And…. Keep reading…