Posts tagged Bus Priority
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Amid exciting innovations, DDOT neglecting bus priority
DDOT is moving forward with many exciting transportation projects that will improve DC, from bike lanes to streetcars. However, their plans for these projects fail to also consider the vital task of making our existing bus service more efficient. There are a few key places where lots of buses use a single street, and get slowed down by traffic. According to data from WMATA, the… Keep reading…
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Maryland on priority corridors: Great! Montgomery: Nah!
The Maryland State Highway Administration responded with positive and encouraging language to the WMATA Riders’ Advisory Council’s recent letter encouraging jurisdictions to work with WMATA on bus priority corridors. Montgomery County, meanwhile, sent a dismissive response to a similar letter from the Action Committee for Transit. State Highway Administrator… Keep reading…
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TIGER means bus priority will start soon
The TIGER grants announced today mean that, instead of bus priority scraping along as a good idea without any serious attention, we’ll get bus lanes, signal priority, NextBus displays, and more in short order. I admit I was mildly disappointed to hear the results, because I was particularly excited about the K Street Transitway and the regional bike sharing program. Also,… Keep reading…
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TIGER funds bus corridors, not K Street or bike sharing
The Washington region will receive $58.8 million for bus priority improvements across the region, but no money for the K Street Transitway or regional bicycle sharing in the TIGER grants. USDOT announced the winners today. Through regional planning organization MWCOG, local governments had applied for $204 million in bus improvements, $13 million for regional bike sharing,… Keep reading…
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Support option 4 on Wednesday
There are two days left until the WMATA FY2010 budget hearing on Wednesday evening. Sign up to testify! Metro has presented four options, though you can recommend combinations of the options. It’s not possible, however, to recommend any fare increase greater than those proposed, because DC’s Board members blocked that. The options mix a combination of service… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cutting, stopping and slowing
Board members talk Catoe, budget; Where to cut instead of Ride On; Stop in Burke, stop on the highway; Smart rhetoric, dumb behavior; Barnesville no longer speedsville; Sulu on the subway; Factors that drive not driving. Keep reading…
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Metro Rapid, or what we could’ve had if Catoe had stayed
It’s rush hour in Los Angeles, but I’m sitting on a bus, flying past the BMWs lined up on Wilshire Boulevard. When we reach an intersection, the light turns green. Cars swing out of the right lane to let the bus pass. And before my eyes is a parade of famous landmarks: Miracle Mile, Rodeo Drive, the beaches of Santa Monica at sunset. This trip is why I was disappointed that… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Clear the bottleneck
16th Street bus-bike lanes!; Beltway is 3rd worst; ever heard of rail?; Where would they grow the pot?; No VA gas tax hike; Recently-repaired MARC loco breaks down; Lots of independent stores in Georgetown; Is the car a civil rights instrument?. Keep reading…
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Groups call for hearings, bus priorities, earlier fare increase
Transit advocacy groups have issued public statements on the proposed Metrorail service cuts the WMATA Board will consider at a meeting this morning. Keep reading…
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WMATA Board, JCC still silent on bus priority, rider input
As Matt and Michael wrote, we’re looking at some pretty unpleasant service cuts and dangerous borrowing from future years to close WMATA’s $40 million FY2010 budget gap, not to mention the $175 million gap for FY2011 which starts in June. We must be very careful not to let Metro get into a “death spiral,” where falling ridership leads to budget shortfalls… Keep reading…