Posts tagged Bart
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Breakfast links: Pay to move
Ride past 9 innings; Parking displaces Wheaton market; Eisenhower Memorial delayed; How rural is rural?; Bikes on BART; Los Angeles, transit city; Safer at any speed; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More gentrification?
Is Union Market gentrification?; The gentrification invasion; Riders’ freewill presents challenge; Inaccessible machines; Development school of thought; Opposition group of one; A councilmember in 73; WMATA not the only one; And…. Keep reading…
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BART pilot will test bikes on rush hour trains
WMATA’s counterpart in the San Francisco Bay Area, BART, currently restricts bikes on their trains during rush hours. But they’ve decided to pilot letting cyclists bring their bikes on trains during the peak period. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Oldest inhabitants
DC wants to keep its WWI memorial; Audit for Union Station management; Death in Rockville crash; Shady deal in Catoe’s Metro; An avalanche of tickets; Think of the tourists; Madrid swaps highway for park; Battle of the buses; Core capacity for BART. Keep reading…
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Comic teaches new customers how to ride transit
San Francisco’s BART has created a great new comic book to help new riders learn to navigate the system. Could it work here? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Suburban traffic engineer follies
Fairfax proposes deathtrap at Wiehle; MCDOT speeds cars, makes area unsafe to walk; Arlington making Glebe safer; Tourmobile going, eventually; Wells hits deer; NYC bike lane survives lawsuit; Park ideas bloom; In mob news; And…. Keep reading…
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More weekend closures, less single-tracking for Metrorail
To save time and money, Metro is revising the way they do some track work. Instead of single-tracking through work zones, Metro will now close whole line segments more often. When BART was being designed, a 1971 article in the IEEE Transactions on Industry and General Applications described its system for avoiding shutdowns by single-tracking: The BART system will provide… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Tough talk
Privatize the ICC? Huh?; New rules for big buses; Parking priorities; Education center & more for Ward 7; Gray pushes to keep solar promises; Transit demand will rise with gas prices; I’m an environmentalist but… around the nation; BART, a derailment and transparency; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s on your Metro?
Are cloth seats wise or germ havens?; McDonnell finally backs Metro funding; Henderson getting the job; Gray calls for investigation of Gray; Questionable tactics against Oregon bag bill; Ga. driver assaults 13-year-old for asking him to put away a phone; Maybe transit advocates are being honest; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Off and on the Hill
Real-time displays, displayed; Bye bye SmartBike; Transit benefit passes, but a little late?; It’s Bilbray, not Chaffetz; You get what you pay for; Height story focused on poor black areas?; As you an “autoist”?; Save on insurance as you don’t drive; And…. Keep reading…