Posts tagged Circulator
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Breakfast links: Money trouble
More theft at DC tax office; DC cuts, then restores, seniors program; Metro suing insurance provider; Taxi commission is a mess; Tysons could be your new home; Norfolk embraces light rail; Sun shines on transit police; And…. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Get serious
Who’s seriously for ethics?; 90s Metrobuses will work like Circulator; Senate slightly saves HSR; Germantown, the “satellite city”; Incomes in central DC, Loudoun soar; How about an underground park?; Baltimore cancels Cyclovia; O’Toole just a rabid anti-urbanist. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Scrutiny for new business
Walmarts see design scrutiny; ANC may dry H St; DC gets a new bus line; Gas tax increase unlikely in Maryland; Accenture moves to transit location; NYC chooses bike share system, imitates DC; Parking problems frustrate for decades; Dostoevsky on DC; And…. Keep reading…
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Tourmobile dies, but exclusivity was the real villain
The Tourmobile is ending service October 31, Lydia DePillis reports. Some City Paper commenters are shouting hallelujah, but this isn’t really cause for celebration and certainly doesn’t mean the end of NPS problems. It’s not like the goal of people calling for reform was to kill the Tourmobile. It wasn’t that the Tourmobile was a bad service, per… Keep reading…
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Visitors will walk far to MLK, as they do to most memorials
On August 28th, an estimated 400,000 people will attend the dedication of the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. They will experience what thousands of visitors find every day: it’s hard to get to the memorials. The nearest Metro stop is Smithsonian, 0.8 miles away. In a special guide for those heading to the dedication, Metro wisely suggests not using this one, which… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: “Washington” versus DC
NPS hyperventilates on pedicabs; Union Station v. DC; EoR Circulator route announced; Sarles won’t go to NYC; Union chief denounces long and short workdays; New York putting the ‘park’ in Park Avenue; Paved Louisville and put up a parking lot; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Deck party
OP wants to restore a L’Enfant avenue; Sidewalk cafes bloom downtown; Walter Reed charging forward; Metro counts bikes; SUVgate, Congressional edition; DC strikes oil in burgers; Discuss R Street bike lane, east of river Circulator; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Law and Order
Commuter scofflaws get amnesty; We know so little about crime; Tourmobile contract invalid?; How to legalize urbanism; Bethesda ditches nostalgic buses; No brain drain at DDOT?; Is CaBi becoming a victim of its own success?; Bike lanes on Oregon Ave?; And…. Keep reading…
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Should east of the river Circulator go to Shipley or Teeter?
DDOT is considering two options for its Circulator east of the river, one serving more of Ward 8 and ending at Lower Barracks Row, and the other reaching the Potomac Avenue Metro and Harris Teeter. Keep reading…
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See you Sunday in Anacostia, 3 weeks at Clybourne Park
This Sunday is GGW’s tour of the Anacostia Museum, and there’s less than 3 weeks left until our happy hour and watching of Clybourne Park. The Anacostia museum trip starts at noon with a brown bag lunch. At 1, we’ll tour the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum, then see the Anacostia Art Gallery at 3. It’s all free; RSVP here. You can reach… Keep reading…