Posts tagged Congestion Pricing
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Dinner links: The future of sitting, driving, biking
New BART seating strategy; Road pricing: the time is now; Look at all the traffic; Road closures and parking divide Eastern Market; German city more neighborly; Arlington needs a few good counters; Some Fairfax Connector buses raise fare to $7; Give the robot your bike. Keep reading…
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Morning links: A sometimes merry land
Support the Pike; From Secretary to Deputy Secretary; Wider, wider, wider; Planner argues stadium opponents missing the point; Crash means holes in the ground; Back in brick; Don’t drink and bike in Poland; Police fee? Streetlight fee? Why not a congestion fee?; The simple answer: Eliminate public transportation. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Get in line
Ask Catoe about NextBus or the budget: Metro General Manager John Catoe is doing a live chat at noon. You can submit questions ahead of time or during the chat. New Columbia Heights is encouraging riders to ask why Metro can’t ask NextBus to turn the beta back on. You could also ask him to consider market-rate parking at Metro stations to help close the budget gap, or other suggestions… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: the march of technological progress
Fighting Maryland’s Luddism: Legislators and constituents have organized a Facebook campaign to overturn the Maryland General Assembly’s recent ban on using Facebook. Keep reading…
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Morning links: watch out for the future
Danger: falling budgets: Metro is just the latest transit agency nationwide to warn of a looming budget crisis. Metro staff proposed $176 million in cuts, of which $103 million would come from staff and expenses and $73 million in service cuts. The board promised not to raise fares until 2010, though they could change their minds. No word yet on which cuts will happen. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Make a difference
Live in Montgomery County? Park and Planning is surveying residents on “how we manage growth, … [and] enhance quality of place in our communities.” Weigh in for more walkable, mixed-use places over auto-dependent sprawl. Also, there’s just one more week to submit public comments to MTA Maryland in support of the light rail Purple Line. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: While you were festivating
MoCo’s trail advocate face-off: Marc Fisher profiles the arguments on both sides of the Purple Line debate from advocates who love the Capital Crescent Trail. Some want to keep transit away from the trail’s vicinity, while others believe we can and should have both. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Doomsday edition
Will they just cancel MARC entirely?: Maryland’s transportation revenue is down another $2.5 billion beyond the $1 billion cuts already made, reports the Post. That’s very bad news for the Purple Line and Corridor Cities Transitway. But of course, the $2.4 billion ICC is immune thanks to its privileged financing agreement. MARC riders spoke out against the previous… Keep reading…
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Transportation across the nation: New York City edition
Lots of good stuff this week on Streetsblog, NYC’s analogue of GGW and an inspiration for creating this site. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Special interests edition
Roger Lewis on the Park and Shop: In his latest appearance on Kojo, architect Roger Lewis talks about the role of politics in historic preservation, including the loss of historic neighborhoods in Southwest in the 1960s, the Park and Shop at the Cleveland Park Metro, the MLK Library, and the closing of G Street to build the Verizon Center. Keep reading…