Posts tagged Communication
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Closed pools, communication snafus dismay children
Sometimes a public pool or other facility just can’t be open when everyone hopes, but when the DC Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) isn’t able to keep its website and voicemail up to date, sudden changes leave children crying and parents frustrated. OnLabor Day weekend Saturday, September 8, I told my 3-year-old that we would go swim together at Wilson Pool… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: As we mature
Growing pains; Such great heights; Better buses; The city as solar heater; WMATA communimucates; A height limit broken; LA bans bags; Monkey business; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A high idea
11th Street recreation bridge?; Buses rise, rail stays flat; Adams Morgan work nearly complete; Concerns up the pike; One for the money; Marbury Plaza saga (sorta) ends; More real-time info, please; How to prevent bus bunching. Keep reading…
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Metro opens doors, closes data
Metro used to publish lists of service disruptions online, but soon after I published a post analyzing the data, Metro stopped posting new reports and eventually removed the entire archive. Is this good customer relations? Metro officials say that the reports require a lot of staff time, but they already have internal reports that show the same information, just in a more technical… Keep reading…
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Metro suffers complete blackout
Metro suffered a complete system failure last night around 11:30 pm. The failures were so extensive that all communications, including track circuits, were out of service. Customers on Twitter were reporting that rail operators had to leave and walk to the next station to get permission to move. WMATA’s website was down, no communication came over any of the alert systems. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: 16 fewer cars
Metro pulls cars; DDOT still committed to bike lanes; New use for parking garage; Woodridge wants a main street; How should federal buildings look?; Students could lose parking privileges; DHS delayed; Keep sprawl in Czech; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Less of a benefit
Transit benefit going down; Breakdown strands passengers; Apartments held up by Metro; Ethics bill passes; New bike lanes scarce; Old Jeff Davis gets fixes, new name; Make it safe to bike to Target; Bus isn’t really cheaper than Silver Line; And…. Keep reading…
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Mayor Gray must refute mediocrity, or fall victim to it
Members of Vincent Gray’s administration have been both quoted and sourced on background as being unhappy with a city employee going above and beyond the call of duty on the job. The mayor must explicitly quash such thinking if he doesn’t want to send a signal to all other city employees not to work very hard. Lon Walls, the communications director for DC’s the… Keep reading…