Posts tagged Crime
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Breakfast links: Unexpected consequences
Save the trail, prevent other trails: Creators of the Capital Crescent Trail always intended it to run along with transit. A bike trail was a good immediate use of a temporarily unused transit ROW. Now that Montgomery residents opposed to transit are opposing the Purple Line because of the trail, one original trail planner regrets creating it in the first place. And, WashCycle explains,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: new year, semi-new ideas
Better buses too: Matt Yglesias suggests better bus service as a transit improvement we should have included in our 2009 wish list. For an easy change, he suggests updating the schedule cards to a more state-of-the-art design. Keep reading…
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Working people might live in Rockville! Everybody panic!
Tonight, the Rockville City Council will debate Beall’s Grant II, a proposed mixed-income housing development around the corner from Rockville Town Square and 0.4 miles from the Rockville Metro. Opponents have a long laundry list of complaints that mostly fall into two categories: “This project is too big and will destroy our neighborhood,” and “Poor… Keep reading…
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What it’s like to get shot
In July, liberal blogger Brian Beutler was shot in a failed mugging attempt in Adams Morgan. In this video, The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates and Beutler discuss Beutler’s experience, race and crime, the way “scared white people” perceive black people and vice versa, gang initiations, politics, gentrification, and more. Via Yglesias. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Big steps
One small step for Virginia, one giant leap for the FTA: Perhaps they saw the writing on the wall, that the Federal Transit Administration is soon to be transformed into an agency that actually promotes transit. Or perhaps Virginia really did allay their concerns. Yesterday, the FTA approved federal funding for the Silver Line, after months of analysis and frenetic lobbying. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Things that stink
The “smelly fish under the table”: Purple Line supporters argue in the Post that the Purple Line will bring job access and development opportunity to poorer eastern Montgomery and Prince George’s, and that opposition stems at least in part from “elitism” and a desire to keep those brown people out of their areas. 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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I thought criminals took transit?
Last month, Freakonomics revisited the ridiculous argument that transit brings crime into the innocent little suburbs. More recently, Just Up the Pike followed a shooting that occurred on a Silver Spring bus recently, prompting more discussion on the possibility that mass transit increases crime. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Six feet under budget
“Hangover of America’s romance with the car”: Salon examines the paradox of governments cutting transit funding as buses and trains face record ridership, and the double standard in the way we think about funding new roads versus funding transit. Keep reading…
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The rest of the puzzle to make Washington greater
Greater Greater Washington generally writes about land use and transportation. But its mission statement talks about “improving the vitality of Washington, DC and the walkable cities and neighborhoods in the Washington metropolitan area.” Keep reading…