Posts tagged Car Sharing
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Weekend links: Not that easy being green
Anacostia to get green help; VMT tax programs run out of fuel; States want mega-highway locals oppose; Vote for a Farragut transfer name; Zipcar loses street parking; Gentrification is nothing new; NYC deploys bollards, poles, and rocks; Municipalities face bankruptcy too; Buy America, hurt America; And…. Keep reading…
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Auto-free car renters juggle complicated insurance options
Urbanites in DC and elsewhere frequently utilize rental cars as an alternative to owning their own vehicles. However, without an auto insurance policy, some renters may be putting themselves at more risk than they realize. In Washington, roughly a third of households don’t have access to a vehicle, but plenty of these people still drive, if only occasionally. Car sharing… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Kicked out
NPS punts soccer team from the Ellipse; Bikes make it across the bridge; Metro morsels; Arlington faces heat for protecting its residents; Black folks can gentrify, too?; Developers sad that sprawl may be harder; Consequences of Congress; Poplar Point won’t get DHS project; And…. Keep reading…
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Innovative, flexible car sharing coming to DC with car2go
Car2go, a subsidiary of Daimler, is looking to bring its “point to point” car sharing model to DC, with about 300 cars possibly as soon as this fall. With a car sharing service such as Zipcar, you reserve a car that lives at a certain spot, use it for a while, then return it. This is very useful to let car-free residents run errands that require cargo capacity, or take trips… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Zoning and the Bill of Rights
Zoning & 1st Amendment collide; Zoning & 2nd Amendment collide; Brown v. BOEE; Metro offers a sneak peek of the future; Many bidders for car share spaces; Walmart waited for its DC debut; Speed cameras come to PG; Sheiks shun Shaw; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Silver on the line
Virginia officials talk Silver Line savings; Metro morsels; Johnson resigns, but not fast enough; Car sharing bidding “backward policy”?; Ward 1 ANCs discuss bike lanes, parking; Preserve Washington artifacts or empty space?; When automobilization was new; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Precious on-street parking
Car sharing may get competition; Central DC parking spaces now have pay by phone; More on taxis; Ravtich Rhee-thinks Rhee-form; Transit site redesign a flop; Holy water denied; SF to LA, 32 hours on trains and buses; Mica’s district hates his plan; And…. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: How to improve
Good schools help cities or vice versa?; ANC wants changes for Walmart; Why the hating on neighborhoods?; Transportation is political in Virginia; Just what transit needs: TSA screening; Crashes around the region; Klein bringing bus shelter screens to Chicago; Watch young planners showcasing. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: DC Council’s endless day
And…; Redistricting map released; Budget passes with bond tax; Many customers not charged for bags; DC passes on real estate taxes; Carjackings occur at WMATA garages; Asian population grows sharply; One juror’s thoughts on the map contest. Keep reading…
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Wells would keep Circulator fare, expand CaBi, and more
Tommy Wells would like to keep the Circulator fare at $1, add 40 more Capital Bikeshare stations, hire needed people at DDOT including a parking czar, set up performance parking on H Street, fund green alleys, and more. Increased residential parking fees, including for households with extra vehicles, and some higher fines will pay for these priorities. These are some of the recommendations… Keep reading…