Posts tagged Car Sharing
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Breakfast links: Ward 8 changes
Too affordable?; Changing of the guard; Stadium stutter; With friends like these; Teaching with technology; Too Much Parking; Better bikeshare; And…. Keep reading…
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My family went from having two cars to hundreds. Here’s how.
From the time we got married, my wife and I were a two-car family. She used hers for work and to cart our kids around town. And while I started biking to my job in Arlington from our home in Glover Park three years ago, I needed mine for weekend Army Reserve work located in Adelphi, which is nowhere near a Metro or early morning weekend bus service. I thought I needed it, anyway. But… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Drive safe
The stats on crashes; The crashiest intersections; Make one-way two; Check out no parking; Heliport or not?; Andy Harris, fix my pothole; Construction kills fish; The Bike Lobby brainwashes reporters!; And…. Keep reading…
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“Sharing” isn’t a good term for services like Uber and Lyft. Is there a better one?
Many of the services that call themselves “sharing,” like “ridesharing” (Uber, Lyft), “car sharing” (Zipcar, car2go), bikesharing (Capital Bikeshare), “home sharing” (Airbnb), and others, are not really “sharing” as we typically think of the term. Do we need up with better words to describe these new business… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where to live?
Where the rent isn’t too high; Affordable housing aids other goals; Microunits show fancy face; Some Virginians vote Tuesday; From Fred Flintstone to mixed-use; App data also helps planners; Wind turbines’ impacts cause delays; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The right transit project?
Are transit fantasies folly?; Is this bus BRT?; A bike boom spills onto sidewalks; Montgomery’s elusive jobs numbers; Smog suffocates SLC; UberX gets a little pricier; Apps to cure distracted driving; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Thanks for not driving
War on cars begins at college; Car sharing’s big impact on auto sales; Mixed-use to replace urban farm; Fare hikes greatly impact disabled; Marijuana bill called discriminatory; Battle against development sprawl; Envision public spaces with snow; Mind the strike; Big trouble in little China?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Going up, coming down
What to put at Reeves?; Weekend track work waning; Free parking!; Take down a parking lot; Maryland foreclosures bounce back; Streamlining SmarTrip; Next stop, Roanoke; And…; Plus…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hot and cold
More snow today; Education debate gets heated; DC’s ugliest buildings; Car2Go raises rates; Free bus to Metro continued; Restore service or decrease fares?; Unfortunate Charm City milestone; Unusual crime fighting methods; High Line critters; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Its too cold!
M Street cycletrack delayed; Fire Department upgraded; CSX trouble in Navy Yard; No federal grant for Greenleaf; DC area ranks high for college; Thankful for more service; Car sharing comes to RPP; Detroit considers highway removal; And…. Keep reading…