Posts tagged Circulator
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Breakfast links: Take transit farther
More Circulator, more expensive; Bike part of the way to work; Up with pop-ups; Even more anti-Purple Line candidate wins; Should Arlington Cemetery expand?; More bike lanes and clarity; Baltimore bikeshare?; Density leads to dollars; An ambitious plan for SW; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Welcome
More tourists for DC; Robberies up on Metro; DC ready for armed march; Raid affordable housing for summer school; Route 1 urban or suburban?; Transit union opposes Circulator; “Roll models” help women bike; Seriously, chill, NYC; And…. Keep reading…
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What’s the best iPhone bus tracking app?
After the “NextBus” iPhone app disappeared last year, bus riders found themselves searching for a new app to track the locations of buses. Since then, a host of new apps have appeared to fill the void. But is there such a thing as the “perfect” app for iPhone owners? I tested 4 iPhone apps to see which one made it easiest to find bus information: NextBus by… Keep reading…
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Circulator will go to Mall, bus priority gets funding
The DC Circulator bus will add service to the National Mall by 2015, and Mayor Gray has added funding to the budget to improve bus service elsewhere in the city, Mayor Gray and Councilmember Mary Cheh just announced in a press release. The Circulator service would not be the same as the old loop around Constitution and Independence Avenues, which DC discontinued in 2011. That line… Keep reading…
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Don’t forget about buses
Mayor Gray’s budget puts serious money behind building the streetcar, but makes little mention of bus service. The mayor has demonstrated a clear and very welcome commitment to transit; to truly achieve his goals of boosting transit ridership, DC needs to improve its bus service as well. The streetcar is not for every neighborhood Streetcars have advantages over buses. Keep reading…
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Streetcars, parks, and libraries get boost in Gray budget
Bike lanes, parks in NoMA and around the city, streetcars, libraries 7 days a week, new trash cans for free, school modernizations, and many more programs get funding under the operating and capital budgets Mayor Gray is unveiling this morning. Streetcars: In the 6-year capital plan, streetcars get $400 million, which should fund completing the first line from Minnesota Avenue… Keep reading…
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What’s up with NextBus, part 2: A pile of APIs
Why do some apps for getting bus predictions work with some DC-area bus services, like WMATA and the Circulator, but not others, like ART and Ride On? Why couldn’t the NextBus DC app just use the same data source that other apps do? Why is this all so complicated? The answer lies in APIs—application programming interfaces— and fragmentation. Previously, we… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Second term approaches
Obama takes one step for DC rights; Inauguration items; Norton asks for statehood, again; Better biking past the White House; New housing won’t have free parking; Maryland will consider bottle bill; Wells approaching mayoral run; Tennessee drops highway; And…. Keep reading…
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Post-turkey video: That’s a lot of dots
Using GTFS data, STLTransit has created videos showing all of the transit vehicles in a city over one day. Here’s Washington’s. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Get Smart
More ways to get a SmarTrip; City Dems, rural GOP?; Long poll lines need fixing; Transit agencies announce inauguration service; Get to Georgetown easier; Outreach breeds support; A second term how to; Where’d everyone go?. Keep reading…