Posts tagged Civil Liberties
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Breakfast links: Good reporting, bad reporting
Press on 270, Corridor Cities; Jumping on the anti-cycling press bandwagon; Congress Heights on the what?; Mall, Capital Crescent make the finals; Walking doesn’t move cars, so what’s the point?; Not a “flop”; No photos or we’ll put you on a hit list; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Arlington to Canada to Japan
Metro down (this weekend); Recycling, bike racks up; Counting coming; Why “pedestrians”?; Photos okay at USDOT, assuming guards get the memo; Transit smart cards, improved; Not so bike friendly. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Maryland train to crazy town
Red and Purple together; Single tracking??!?; MTA out of the spying biz; Crime down, experts happy but baffled; The street e?; 1000s in train middles not a new idea; Walk or bike to Metro?. Keep reading…
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A greater city is unafraid of citizens with point-and-shoot cameras
As you have hopefully heard by now, the wonderful Artomatic is taking place at 55 M Street, SE. The event is free, though donations are welcome. The nine-floor art festival is open Wednesdays through Sundays until July 5 and includes everything from Peeps diorama finalists to body paint shows. Keep reading…
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US DOT HQ security: No photos allowed, because I said so
If you thought insane no-photography policies were taken care of after last summer’s Union Station debacle, think again. On Sunday, around 6:30 pm, I stopped on M Street SE to photograph two of the transportation-inspired public art installations that surround the US DOT headquarters. I was taking a photograph of an installation of vintage bicycles when a security guard… Keep reading…
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Amtrak arrests man for taking photos for Amtrak’s photo contest
Stephen Colbert reports. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Many voices for transit over roads
The Times: A NYT editorial yesterday argues Obama must “give mass transit the priority it deserves and the full financial and technological help it needs and has long been denied” in the upcoming transportation bill. According to the Times, the current stimulus proposal floating around Congress would allocate $30 billion to “highways and bridges” and… Keep reading…
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Norton berates Union Station reps over photography, intermodal plans
Eleanor Holmes Norton is not especially happy with the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation, the nonprofit entity created by Congress to oversee the station (and which, in turn, contracts with private entities to operate the station). It’s not only the overreacting to photography. Norton feels USRC hasn’t taken advantage of opportunities to make Union Station… Keep reading…
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Union Station latest photo flashpoint
The conflict between photographers and overzealous security guards has reached great heights, both of comedy and now power, as Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton jumps into the issue. Keep reading…
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For: alternatives to cars, civil rights online
I am a strong supporter of Transportation Alternatives, which promotes public policy to enhance public transit and bicycle use while reducing dependence on cars. New York leads all American cities by a huge margin in its percentage of residents who commute to work in ways other than driving. This is good for communities, the environment, the economy, and foreign relations,… Keep reading…