Posts tagged Amtrak
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Afternoon links: Contact your representatives
Ask to be heard; Transit projects create more jobs; Dog owner tax break?; Photoshopped ad deceptive or thrifty?; Train fatality in BaltCo. Keep reading…
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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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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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Breakfast links: Empty parking, screw peds and bikes
We told you so, New York; College Park-ing still a failure; Mean parking lots; Just coal for pedestrians, bikers; Who needs to maintain bikeways? Not Montgomery; NIMBY, literally; Massive widenings are expensive, even in Tysons; Future Amtrak: Wireless, yummier, and more annoying. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Saluting substitutes or subsidies
Salute to pedestrian safety; Metro schedules Maryland town halls; No substitute for the automobile?; Amtrak subsidies high? Still not clear; Laurel traffic now calmer; If you can push for parking here, you can push for it anywhere; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Students getting around
Elementary public works; Fairfax teens can use the bus; Even underground isn’t good enough; Mean streets and tracks; Is congestion pricing bad for the environment?; New MDOT chief more focused on transit?; Register your car already. Keep reading…
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Virginia rail service has successful first day
Yesterday, I rode the first intercity passenger rail service the Commonwealth of Virginia has ever funded. The train arrived promptly at the station in Charlottesville this morning, and headed on its way to Union Station. A decent-sized crowd boarded with me, and the local media were there to film the event. Passing through the small town of Orange, not yet a stop along the route, an… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: You break it, you buy it
Metro sues for Orange Line damage; Not the right route; No more E-Z perks; Vacuum chic not cycle chic?; Riders would pay for bikes on Amtrak; Speed cameras working, mostly; Commuters find a way around I-66; Thanks, states. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Keep the blood flowing
Sign up for Bikestation; A little less Circulation; Corner stores now healthier; Rail guns; Ethics time; Reality vs. formula for rail lines; Performance parking at the beach; Rolling back parking enforcement. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Newer, faster, fairer, calmer
New New Carrollton; High-speed VRE; Now a fairer land for peds; Lawyers calmer, slimmer in Reston; Bixi in Boston; Not a free parking space; Strike! BART to shut down Monday; Amtrak ridership off highs. Keep reading…