Posts tagged Car Sharing
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Breakfast links: Will it get built?
Budget passes, Silver doesn’t; Concrete solutions; Where people bike and carpool; Incomplete passes; Kabuki transportation bill; Money isn’t everything; We want retail; Not in the zone; Last call; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: State power for car-centrism
VDOT’s way or the highway; Govs pushing Outer Beltway; Obama cuts Metro; Parking no longer King; Oops, we lost your rec center; Some CMs pass on raise; Tunnel too small; Bike to DCA; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: The grand plan
Downtown BID thinks big; Bye building, hello parking; Car2go launches; Arts get a budgetary boost; VRE will raise prices; Cyclists are best customers; Better map for the Bay; And…. Keep reading…
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At-large candidates talk about “livable, walkable” visions
The Democratic at-large candidates for DC Council, incumbent Vincent Orange, and challengers Sekou Biddle, E. Gail Anderson Holness, and Peter Shapiro, talked about transportation, housing, land use and some social issues at last night’s forum at the Black Cat on 14th Street. Here is the full video from the event: flowplayer(“main”, “http://odd.greatergreaterwashington.org/video/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.8.swf”,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Share the car
Car2go ready to go; Zipcar interested in P2P; Gray dreams of Redskins practice fields; Purple Line getting worse?; Adequate Public Facilities law not adequate; Silver Line labor laws up in the air; Privacy vs. policing, take 516; Transpo bill moves right; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Life getting easier for littlest peds
Walk to School [Every]Day; Kids will walk safer in PG; Zipcar parks elsewhere; Leggett hot for sprawl; Geoff catches a bicycle thief; Eastern Market vendors fear rent increases; MoCo politicos resents gerrymandering; Help with the zoning rewrite… for money; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What you can’t have
Chinatown development scaled down… again; Parking permit exclusion among new bills; MoCo goes for mixed-use; Lawn mowing contract creates buzz; Why a fee shifting bill for cyclists?; Misspelled signs vanish quickly; Bikeshare-style car sharing launches in Paris; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Remembering and moving on
Memories stay secure; “Mile-high club” couple triggers scare; Emergency response still muddy; Financial disclosure or erosion of home rule?; Is this development crime-resistant?; Car-free easier and more popular; New MLK road signs confusing; And…. Keep reading…
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Competition won’t drastically alter the car-sharing market
Recent news that Zipcar is losing some of its coveted on-street spaces in DC has sparked discussion about how new competition might impact the region’s car-sharing network. Economic theory suggests that the impact on prices and service might not be as large as some hope. Zipcar currently enjoys monopoly status in DC. Since acquiring Flexcar in 2007, Zipcar has been the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bicycle’s race
Baca on biking; Contributors in the news; Size doesn’t matter for gambling; Metro stations get better for bikes and peds; Zipcar wouldn’t mind if you emailed Bellamy; Sprawl nearly slips by in southern Maryland; Georgetown’s got more competition; 10 minutes to Gainesville; And…. Keep reading…