Posts tagged Bart
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Breakfast links: Honestly
Frank and fixing; Honest BART; Council scrutinizes shelter plan; W&OD at Wiehle; No more institutionalization; Beer garden at bat; Driven to serve; Co-everything. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Parking and the pope
Ferrying feds to parking; More papal problems; Tunnel treats; Bounded body cameras; Walkable suburbs; Seattle’s subway; Run or ride?. Keep reading…
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San Francisco street lights will animate subway trains below
A public art installation on San Francisco’s Market Street will add animated lights following the movement of subway trains running directly below. Keep reading…
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Oakland’s new airport train would be perfect at BWI
San Francisco’s BART opened the new 3.2-mile Oakland Airport Connector shortly before Thanksgiving, tying a second Bay Area airport into the region’s rail system. A similar project could give BWI a boost. Oakland International and BWI airports share the same problem of being a couple of miles away from important transit lines, BART and the MARC train, respectively. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Changes to and from Silver
Bus Fairfax; Silver bows to stormwater; Rising waters; Hearing DC statehood; Bikelash a good thing?; Too many choices?; Sidewalks everywhere; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Delays
City misses deadline for stadium deal; Microunits delayed by parking; Easier development for White Oak; Some riders lose on $115 a month; Plastic bag use drops; Chevy Chase to lawyer up?; Alexandria will get a hotel; One property tax bill moves ahead; Performance parking on BART. Keep reading…
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Could Metro allow bicycles during rush hour?
Yesterday, San Francisco’s BART system lifted its long-standing ban on allowing bicycles on rush-hour trains. Given bicycling’s popularity in the DC area, and the Metro system’s packed park and ride lots, perhaps a similar reform would work here. After a lengthy trial process, BART will allow bikes on all its trains at all times, finally giving people an… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Virginia highways
Dulles toll going up; Highway growth continues; Casino bidding war; St. Elizabeths pavilion opens; Should transit worker strikes be illegal?; Pedestrian and cyclist traffic deaths rise; Chicago passes Portland in biker count; London bans subterranean expansions; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to ride
Streetcars by end of 2013, probably; Where’d you come from?; Really?; The quality of buses; Should FBI go?; ANCs not audited; BART not going anywhere; NYC taxes hurt renters; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The numbers tell all
Pay to play?; DC wins more residents among workers; Where homes sell slowest; Why engineers pooh-poohed cycle tracks; Bike thief contronted, laughs; It’s not “Breakfast at Citibank”; What’s next for MARC; And… Keep reading…