Posts tagged Air Travel
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Breakfast links: Getting what you want
McDonnell gets his WMATA seat; DC readies for shutdown; Dulles station criticism takes off; Security can’t help us; Rental vacancies low in DC; Cities growing out and up; Denver kills diagonal crossings; And…. Keep reading…
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MWAA picks tunnel station
Dulles’ Metro station will be underground, despite the extra cost. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Missing the point
C100 against public participation in government?; Perkins pushing preferable passes; Don’t panic about buildings; Pondering access for Tysons stations; Google Maps slow to correct errors; National Airport’s historic remnants; More toll increases in Maryland?; Roads too costly to maintain; And…. Keep reading…
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How would Dulles’s rail compare to European airports?
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority board is still trying to decide whether to spend more money to build an underground Silver Line station close to the Dulles terminal, or to instead choose an elevated station near the parking garage. How will this ultimately compare to other major airport rail connections? The elevated station would be 600 feet farther from the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transit around the Beltway
Maryland big dogs stick up for transit; Loudoun waffles on Silver Line; DC gets more of Walter Reed; Will MPD respond to bike/ped concerns?; Drivers ignore school bus stops; Smith spent thousands against student; House will probe Gray campaign; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Alternatives from east to west
No love for Anacostia streetcar; Reston designs its future; Dulles rail delayed a year; Many modes for cherry blossoms; Future of Ellipse area: still barricaded, less ugly; DOD should cover infrastructure in BRAC; Dealing with youth on Metro; NEC likely to get HSR money; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Full of contradictions
VA wants cheap Dulles station; Robbery footage released; Manufactured bike lane opposition; Health impact of SE bike lane; Metro to lengthen some trains; Liberal NIMBYism in our back yard; NFL owners forget public financing; Landover Redskins?; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Friction over lanes
Gabe Klein busts illegal parkers; Real economists get bike lanes; NYC BRT “creeps” downward; John Galt had a high-speed train; Idaho and New Mexico Stop?; DC’s heliport may reopen; FTC HQ Mica’s only priority; And…. Keep reading…
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MWAA: A public authority in even more need of scrutiny
This afternoon, DC Council Chairman Kwame Brown is holding a roundtable on the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and Gray’s nomination of Warner H. Session and Shirley Robinson Hall as 2 of DC’s 3 members of its board. Below is a draft of my testimony. Mr. Chairman, The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, known as WMATA or Metro, has gotten… Keep reading…
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Examiner beats drums for war on non-cars
The Washington Examiner’s opinion section features five separate fusillades against transit, spending on transit, and the entire idea, incomprehensible to the authors, that some people can happily live their lives primarily getting around using transit and on foot and might actually enjoy it. Several, by “conservative” writers and crossposted from… Keep reading…