Posts tagged Bus Lanes
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Breakfast links: Not going there
Not National Harbor; Bus lane blues; Alexandria Dems are split; Bikeshare for Fairfax; Health Link help; Convention business; House weighs in on DC vouchers; Pay the real price; Birthplace of TOD; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s on the Pike?
Plans for the Pike; Loss of communication; Schools, the commute killer; Quarry’s coming; I believe in MPD; Behind Marriott’s move; Suburbia, socially engineered; Cruising out of style; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: We’d really like nice things
Less money; Escalator out; Why transit stinks here; Police on camera; Pennsylvania Avenue revitalized; Maximize the Mall; Tapped out; Singing for statehood; In LA the car is out; Hello old friend. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Utterly official
Another option, please; Purple Line delayed again; White flag; The People’s House; Construction blocks; Better buses; Stamp of approval; Strike snarls commutes; And…. Keep reading…
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Four blocks of Georgia Avenue will get red-painted bus lanes
By Spring 2016, a four block stretch of Georgia Avenue near Howard University will feature DC’s first red-painted bus lanes. At a community meeting last night, officials from DDOT announced they will reconfigure Georgia Avenue between Barry Place and Florida Avenue, converting two car lanes to curbside bus lanes, adding a center left turn lane, and improving the… Keep reading…
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DC’s Olympic bid had some great ideas, and some lame ones
The team of architects and business leaders behind the recent, unsuccessful, and until-now-secret bid for an Olympics in DC revealed some of their ideas last week to Jonathan O’Connell of the Washington Post. The plan has a number of good ideas for DC which are worth implementing even now — and a few that really aren’t. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Budget breakthroughs
Stamp of approval; Almost free; Safety first; Outside consult; How to pay; People for parks; Unfairly fired; Floating; Walk this way. Keep reading…
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Beyond Metro, there’s no big idea for transit in DC anymore
The excellent Housing Complex writer Aaron Wiener is leaving the local reporting scene for a position at Mother Jones. For his valedictory column, he proposes 15 “not-so-modest proposals for how to make DC better.” The first three cover transit. So what’s the big pie-in-the-sky for transit? First: “Build new Metro lines.” Second: “At… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Planning ahead
To tax?; Purple haze; Cruel irony; Slow ride; Sidewalk block; A last hurrah; Teachers needed; Defining urban; Charting rent increases. Keep reading…
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Tomorrow’s special election candidates talk streetcar, bus lanes, and more
The DC chapter of the Sierra Club asked candidates in tomorrow’s Ward 4 and Ward 8 special elections about their stances on transportation issues. The Club heard back from Brandon Todd in Ward 4 and from Eugene Kinlow and LaRuby May in Ward 8. The questionnaire, which covered bus lanes, streetcars, parking, and bike trails, was part of the Sierra Club’s endorsement… Keep reading…