Posts tagged Chris Zimmerman
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Breakfast links: Fewer taxes, longer names
Union Station tax break back?; More Metro station name creep; Maryland marks lowest turnout ever; Arlington County struggles with parking garage; Debating HOT Lanes; What to do with little parks; Prefab rowhouses don’t cut it; Cracking through pavement. Keep reading…
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You know you’ve arrived when…
Greater Greater Washington is the subject of the cover story in this week’s City Paper, about how our little ragtag band of bloggers here is getting to be a little bit influential. If you’re visiting us for the first time after finding out about us in the article, welcome! The best way to stay on top of what we’re talking about is to subscribe to the RSS feed, sign… Keep reading…
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Jaffe, McCartney talk Metro safety, “budgetary blackmail”
For the anniversary of the Metro crash, Newschannel 8 interviewed former RAC Chair and Sierra Club transit activist Dennis Jaffe and Washington Post metro columnist Bob McCartney. Unfortunately for those of you not on Windows, Newschannel 8 only provides videos in Windows Media Player format. They discussed progress toward safety on Metro, the looming NTSB report,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Suburbs change, state DOTs don’t
Not your parents’ suburbs; VDOT is hot, Halsey is cold; Fix Metro funding, and not by pulling it; Transportation Row?; Cost of killing Holden: $4.3 million; Paris “reconquering the Seine”; NYC and Boston like to share; Do cities need more density?. Keep reading…
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Maryland comes through for transit
The O’Malley Administration has backed off its attempts to reduce capital funding for Metro. Keep reading…
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We can’t let Governor O’Malley sabotage Metro
The press has been thoroughly covering the impact of interim WMATA GM Richard Sarles’ proposed modified FY2011 operating budget, which has significant and immediate impacts on riders, but the much more important story from yesterday’s Board meeting is how the O’Malley Administration kneecapped prospects for repairing Metro’s aging infrastructure. To… Keep reading…
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Drink, testify, and meet Chris Zimmerman
Come on down to Ireland’s Four Courts, 2051 North Wilson Blvd in Arlington (Court House Metro) from 6:00 pm on for our next Greater Greater Washington happy hour. Chris Zimmerman, Arlington County Board member and WMATA Board member, expects to stop by for a little while before the budget hearing. See you there! Keep reading…
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Is using capital for operations saving our service or mortgaging our future?
WMATA faces difficult decisions about whether to use capital funds for “preventive maintenance” that is currently paid for by the operating budget. During the recent debate over closing a $40 million WMATA budget gap, Metro Board members Jim Graham and Chris Zimmerman express what seem to be widely divergent public views. Graham said, “The best… Keep reading…
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Board approves no service cuts
The WMATA Board just approved a FY2010 budget plan much like Option 4, with no service increases reductions and an across-the-board fare surcharge of 10¢. Arlington’s Chris Zimmerman created a resolution that modified Option 4 based on what he and other members heard last night. Among them was a directive to make more administrative cuts in lieu of some use of capital… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cutting, stopping and slowing
Board members talk Catoe, budget; Where to cut instead of Ride On; Stop in Burke, stop on the highway; Smart rhetoric, dumb behavior; Barnesville no longer speedsville; Sulu on the subway; Factors that drive not driving. Keep reading…