Posts tagged Crime
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New Year’s Eve links: Encourage cycling
GW provides parking for bikes but not cars; WABA seeks funds for woman riders; Brace yourself bicyclists, winter is coming; Still not great for young black men; Tops in 2012 transportation; Not your typical day on Metro; How not to build light rail; Tea Party weakens. Keep reading…
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Transit fights crime
A lot of suburban areas around the nation once (and, in some places, still) opposed building transit lines because they feared it would bring crime. We know that’s bogus, but got another piece of evidence today. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The last vote
Council votes; Barry’s ex-con law fails; Step back for campaign finance; Frederick, Howard tops in schools; Build high in Pentagon City?; Calling all car apps; LA approves 1st area without parking minimums; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting there quicker?
Moving more quickly in the city; Local commuters shift to transit; Pay attention to DC’s gun victims; Courts may end DC’s concealed weapons ban; Longer library hours?; Tide turning on national VMT study?; Rising wealth reshapes region; And…; Conributors nominated as best “tweeps”. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bonded
Dems make Bonds interim councilmember; Judge blocks Ivy City yard; Arlington rejects electric taxis; Bethesda could be better for bikes; From parking to park; DC still the Corcoran’s home; DC one of the choiciest; Tax land, not buildings?; And…. Keep reading…
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Lights out on the MBT? You’re on your own, DC cyclists
The Metropolitan Branch Trail is a terrific bike facility, but without better lighting, it’s too attractive for crime. Sadly, it takes repeated emergencies like robberies to get our government to pay attention. On Tuesday night at 9 pm, I rode the off-street part of the trail from Franklin Street NE, south to M Street NE, and counted 19 overhead lights (as well as 5 lights… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting around
Metro keeping 2 Southeast bus routes; Need to fund transit to grow; Transit pays off; What’s going to happen to transportation?; More DC Bikeshare delayed; Arlington may close tax-dodging restaurants; DC moving to legalize Uber; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bike forward
L Street bike lane begins; Bike infrastructure saves lives; Bike thief apologizes, advises; Ban big sodas in DC?; Upper 14th Street wants density; Streetcar task force skips the public; Prince George’s reconsiders widening streets; Fight for transit funds; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Approval and rejection
Tysons pushes forward; Uber taxi app illegal in New York; Bethesda neighbors fear Bikeshare; LivingSocial’s Metro deal cost nothing; Cell phones wait on Metro; Alexandria wins rights to alley; DC’s murder rate has tumbled; Cities of canines; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pay to move
Ride past 9 innings; Parking displaces Wheaton market; Eisenhower Memorial delayed; How rural is rural?; Bikes on BART; Los Angeles, transit city; Safer at any speed; And…. Keep reading…