Posts tagged Carpooling
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Breakfast links: Skyscrapers for DC?
DC weighs in on height; Support for BRT in MoCo; First Right to Purchase underfunded?; What should DC do if feds shut down?; Hill East development approved; DC carpool community built on trust; Slow start in San Fran; Transit not most important to TOD?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting around
PARK(ing) Day 2013; Go car-free; Crosswalk conundrum; Travel-time signs change minds?; Bike commuting continues to rise; Metro revises exitfare policies; To rent or to own?; White Oak envisioned as new Silicon Valley; DC unchanged since 2011?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Worrying about parking
Chevy Chase building draws a fight; Evans demands parking privileges; Make cars louder?; FTA fixes funding priorities; Baltimore gets new cameras; Cancel games, lose revenue; Corporations ride free?; And…. Keep reading…
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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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A real evacuation plan wouldn’t look like Tuesday
Imagine we needed to evacuate downtown DC and Arlington quickly, in the middle of the day. What would be the best way to do that? We know what wouldn’t work: telling all employees to go home at the same time. That’s pretty much what happened Tuesday after the earthquake. No bridges or roads were damaged, though some traffic signals had switched to flashing red or had… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Overtime, over budget, overdrive
Metro workers pulling long hours; Silver Line funding still in question; AAA still fighting for speeders; Program matches parents for carpools; What’s “just right” for porch height; MLK Memorial will open to all; Arlington marks scandal and intrigue; Satire map plots stereotypes; Could an overlay stop more churches on RI Ave?; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Lessons from the past
Don’t tear it down; DC United won’t go in Florida Market; Contention mounts over complete streets funding; Detroit plans to shrink; German transit inspired Disney, but not LA; HOV privilege ends for hybrids; It’s a man’s world; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Defending against BRAC
Carpools key to Mark Center sanity; Bethesda in for a BRAC surprise; East Falls Church plan a go; Shuffling VA Metro seats; A cheaper underground Dulles station?; Finding out-of-District DCPS students; A long battle for vehicular manslaughter; Getting smart growth right in MD; And…. 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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Breakfast links: Suggestions paying off
Metro going express around single tracking; New building skirts parking requirements; Carpooling is in decline; VA legislator wants no more red light cameras; Pepco continues to disappoint; Clean snow off your car!; Road salt turns into river salt; And…. Keep reading…