Posts tagged Buses
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Breakfast links: Thinking about tomorrow
Avoid a DC shutdown; Why not Walmart; Burke wants calmer parkway; Express buses begin on ICC; College Park considering CaBi; Complaints do not equal failure; Biddle challenges opponents’ candidacies; Gray calls for deeper SUV investigation; And…. Keep reading…
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Listen: Moving stories about getting around Baltimore
Everybody has a story. Earlier this month, some Baltimoreans got a chance to tell their tales. The Maryland Humanities Council and the Stoop Storytelling Series teamed up for Moving Stories: Getting Around Baltimore, in which Charm City residents volunteered to speak about their experiences getting around the city. WYPR-FM recorded two of these stories and was kind enough… Keep reading…
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Weekend video: Buses and bike racks
Clarence Eckerson and the team over at Streetfilms have put together a great video about buses and bike racks. The film even includes an interview with WMATA’s own Nat Bottigheimer, Assistant General Manager for Planning and Joint Development. Keep reading…
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Allow unfolded umbrella strollers on Metrobus
You can bring about anything onto a MetroBus — multiple large luggage, folding shopping carts, oversized packages — as long as it’s not an unfolded stroller. Metrobus should either ban all items that can’t rest on your lap, or to allow the smallest of strollers to board: unfolded umbrella strollers. DC’s Circulator adopted a stroller… Keep reading…
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HOT lanes and the Arlington lawsuit, part 2: Slow down
The facile claims of many leaders and a number of news reports have fed misconceptions about the Virginia HOT lanes project. The biggest danger of all with this project is that it’s very likely to slow down, not speed up, existing carpoolers and buses. Myth 3: The HOT lanes will speed up travel in the 95/395 corridor. Right now, traffic generally moves swiftly in the HOV… Keep reading…
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Is your bus farebox working?
We know that broken Metrobus fareboxes cost WMATA significant revenue. But how big is the problem? If you ride the bus, please help by reporting whether your bus farebox is working on your next few trips. Unfortunately, hard data on the rate of fareboxes being broken isn’t easily available even to Metro. Knowing the scope of this problem could help with the tough budget WMATA… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Let it snow
Snow highlights city/suburb difference; Buses not spared from wintry mess; Why H Street isn’t developing faster; Half-busy day for WMATA Board; Bag search feedback mixed; O’Malley to use transportation fund to cut deficit; Mendelson calls for better traffic enforcement; NYPD cracks down on cyclists; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Spotlight on roads
PG residents want brighter roads; SHA trying darker roads; Bad bills and bad Senators who support them; Money’s for roads, but he wants control of Metro; Maryland needs new crosswalk strategy; Gray, Brown ride $2,000/month SUVs; Talking transit, taxes and election tactics; National Harbor to add gas station; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cycling in the law and the press
Bike bills introduced in Richmond; Bike baiting is really frio; Alternatives to extending Metro; East Falls Church planning enters final stages; DC makes inroads against chronic homelessness; Foggy Bottom station closed over MLK weekend; Nominate “most endangered” historic properties; Streetcars: a renaissance or transportation nostalgia?; Google Transit adds new features; And…. Keep reading…
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Paper bus passes extended through January
Though they had initially announced January 2, 2011 as the end date, WMATA has extended the life of paper bus passes through January 29. After that date, area buses will no longer accept weekly paper bus passes. The paper pass reprieve comes as a result of “unforeseen technical issues,” according to WMATA’s Ron Holzer. ART announced the extension in a press… Keep reading…