Posts tagged Chris Zimmerman
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Metro restores almost all service cuts
The Metro board voted today to restore almost all of the proposed bus service cuts. They will close the rest of the $29 million budget gap with money from their “rainy day” operating reserve and some increase in contributions from Maryland. Keep reading…
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Live chat with Chris Zimmerman
Welcome to our live chat with Chris Zimmerman, Member of the Arlington County Board and many transportation-related regional steering bodies, including Metro, VRE, and the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission. Feel free to settle in early and start posting your questions. We’ll start the discussion at 1 pm. Mr. Zimmerman looks forward to taking your questions. Keep reading…
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Live chat: Chris Zimmerman, Thursday at 1 pm
Greater Greater Washington will host its next live guest, Chris Zimmerman, Thursday at 1 pm. Zimmerman is a member of the Arlington County Board, the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“Metro”), the Transportation Planning Board for the National Capital Region, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority and the Northern Virginia… Keep reading…
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Zimmerman urges Metro to embrace “beta testing”
Metro is “more nervous than [it] need[s] to be” about opening up Web tools like NextBus to the public, said Arlington board member Chris Zimmerman at today’s Metro Board of Directors meeting, but Fairfax member Catherine Hudgins isn’t so sure. Metro staff still feel that closing off access to the real-time bus information tool until June’s launch… Keep reading…
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Zimmerman aces TPB, blocks I-66 widening
BeyondDC broke some exciting news. Thanks to the efforts of Arlington Board member Chris Zimmerman, who also sits on the Metro Board of Directors and the Council of Governments’ Transportation Policy Board, it’s the policy of the Washington Metropolitan Region not to widen I-66 at this time. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting around the Old Dominion
Next stop Lynchburg: A Virginia board approved funding for two new daily trains, one from Lynchburg to DC via Charlottesville and Culpeper, and the other from Richmond to DC. The service could begin as early as October. (News Advance via Stephen) Keep reading…
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Metro: Inaugural champion and economic casualty?
by Chris Zimmerman Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cuts and losses
Chopping the point: Clark Realty is not going to develop Poplar Point. Clark could no longer afford to do the whole project amid the bad economic climate, and DC decided to end the partnership rather than pay a portion of the cost. The city will move forward with the land transfer and EIS for now, prepare the land itself, and then re-bid the development. DC United and the District have stopped… Keep reading…
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Metro endorses openness for schedule data
At Thursday’s board meeting, I spoke about Google Transit and the broader issues of communication at Metro. Chief Administrative Officer Emeka Moneme stated unequivocally that Metro agrees with the principle of making schedule data available beyond just wmata.com: Keep reading…