Posts tagged Bureaucracy
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Breakfast links: You’re fired
WMATA management shakeup; SafeTrack’s low-income impact; SafeTrack prep; Mixed-use for Herndon; Changes for Bethesda, too; Hotel supply and demand; More real estate sticker shock; Language shift is no accident; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dude, where’s my railcar
New railcars on hold; Strengthen your core; Housing and politics; Meadowlands for DC?; Poor job on job training; Rockville tunnel; No development for Lake Anne; Biz for Prince George’s; FreshPAC money back; MoCo tackles student debt. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Eat nearby
Fancy food for St. Elizabeths; Graham throws dirt, hits self; DC’s just roads and parking to you?; Train goes up stairs; Silver Line too bureacratic?; Crash victims get memorial park; Kids lose out; People are happy with DC; Build for cars, transit costs more; And…. Keep reading…
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Internal DDOT structure stalls important bike projects
District Department of Transportation (DDOT) project managers are hard at work on a lot of roadway projects, but they’re not in charge of repaving the 15th Street cycle track, or finishing the Metropolitan Branch Trail, or one of many other bicycle projects waiting for action. The agency segregates its bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure into the planning group,… Keep reading…
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The police broke my house by mistake, wouldn’t pay to fix
In the spring of 2009, the police attempted to break into my house. The previous resident of our home was arrested a few days earlier in a traffic stop. Her son successfully fled on foot, dropping a gun as he did so. When police asked her where her son lived, she gave the police our address telling them that he lived there with some of his friends. As he was wanted on a warrant, and known… Keep reading…
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What if the fire department ran like ABRA?
Many of DC’s boards and commissions have deep-seated problems, like the Taxi Commission. The liquor license agencies, ABRA and the ABC Board, represent another serious case of dysfunction. So many cases generate community-splitting free-for-alls leading to pseudo-Solomonic decisions that that businesses and communities become desperate, not knowing what could… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Watch out for riots
Alexandria braces for BRAC; Restaurateur afraid of riots; Parking lot to become DC skatepark; DC challenging Census numbers; Homicide stats diverge; WMATA culture gradually crushes innovation?; Metro morsels; Spatial grid shows Tube distortion; And…. Keep reading…
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Park Service rules stifle neighborhood events in Dupont
Inflexible National Park Service rules and rude employees have created huge headaches for neighbors in Dupont Circle trying to bring community energy to their neighborhood park. Over 2,000 people, many decked out in flags or other creative costumes, packed Dupont Circle last summer to watch the United States play England in the first round of the World Cup. That was just one… Keep reading…
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Does DC really need a Deputy Mayor for Education?
A mayoral transition is a good time to think about budget-friendly changes to the org chart, and one constructive change might be to eliminate the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education (DME). Why do we need a DME when we already have an Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE)? The DME office (with its own chief of staff, 8 full time staff and a $1.3m budget after the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Go and stop on HSR
90 minutes to Richmond; No HSR for Palo Alto; Columbia for transit; Safe bike parking at school; What is the “area” for affordable housing?; Zoning marathon in PG; Potomac Yard neighbors protest taxes; Fight graffiti with art; And…. Keep reading…