Posts tagged Air Travel
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Afternoon links: Everything that’s not the Metro budget
Big space, little space; No more mobile lounges; News flash: There’s lots of traffic; From hostile shortcut to “entrance to a park”; “Beauty and the Bike”; Sorry, we spent your savings; Senator’s daughter carjacked. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Delays due to broken systems
Why no breakfast links today?; Montgomery traffic signals go out; Metro communication systems go out; Pay for park parking if you don’t park in the park; Transit Score; And…; “Roads” now includes transit?. Keep reading…
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The Silver Line is what the region needs
This is one-half of a point-counterpoint about transit in the Dulles corridor. Read the opposing viewpoint. Because it’s often called the Dulles Rail project and managed by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, many people think the point of the Silver Line is to connect Dulles Airport to Washington. Now, don’t get me wrong, connecting Dulles is one… Keep reading…
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Dulles needs an express rail line
This is one-half of a point-counterpoint about transit in the Dulles corridor. Read the opposing viewpoint. The Metro’s new Silver Line is officially called the “Dulles corridor extension,” and as currently planned is acting as a commuter rail line connecting the upper Fairfax and Loudoun exurbs with Downtown DC. It’ll also create the only rail… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cutting back and cutting through
Cherry blossoms without Circulation; More park, less cut-through in SF; Dulles taxis unpopular; A tale of two Safeways; Parking far more subsidized; San Jose rail light but not rapid; Everybody wants the TIGER. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bumps in the road
Keep on Circulating; Bumps cause conflict in Chevy Chase; National Harbor II; No houses without massive road construction; MWAA, the Major Widening Aspirations Association?; Md. cameras will come slowly; Failing not bailing the housing market. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Outdoor people and places
Car-Free photos; Anti H Street festival; Better pictures of the huge bike; High taxes for blight but not vacancy; MWAA now a road-widening agency?; A little relief on BRAC; NTSB: Fix the mystery track circuits; Grants grants grants; And…. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Chronicles of hypocrisy
Another suicide?; Wah, the monorail wasn’t working; Libertarians against property rights; Hyland v. Keam on transportation; High-speed map of rail; Yet another transportation subsidy: general aviation airports; Keep those bus passengers away from our walkable town. Keep reading…
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This date in history: First airplane crash
During the flight trials at Ft. Myer on September 12, 1908, tragedy struck. At a height of 75 feet, on a turn, one of the new nine foot propeller blades broke. The machine pitched to the ground resulting in the death of Lieutenant Selfridge and the painful injury of Orville Wright. The collapsed Wright airplane was photographed just after it struck the ground. This was the first… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: States like it, commentators don’t
High-speed, Baltimore to Richmond, bit by bit; From bad to worse quality commentary; Loudoun mega-sprawl plan on foreclosure block; Sign them up; Who needs Central Park?; More from Maryland; As least we have SmarTrip. Keep reading…