Posts tagged Ddot
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Breakfast links: Tunnel trouble
No Red Line water repairs; FTA in the tunnels; Circulator short on maintenance; Bye bye bus shelter; Leggett lets up on taxes; Rally on dirt bikes; Metro on customer accountability; Pothole hunters. Keep reading…
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Here’s an interactive map of DC’s efforts to fix potholes
Like daffodils and Cherry Blossoms budding in spring, potholes are in bloom on DC’s streets. In the spring, the District runs a campaign called Potholepalooza, where it encourages residents to report potholes and works to patch them faster than usual. You can track this year’s efforts with this interactive map:… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The future of RFK
A new RFK stadium for… the Wizards?; Fairfax’s future; Northeast Corridor tragedy; Boston feels our pain; Tread carefully on shutdowns; Hogan gives scoring a low score; New era for National Harbor; Bikeshare’s safety benefit; Pothole tech. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Baffling bike blockages
L St bike lane blues; Arlington’s bike plan is ancient; Westbard’s way forward; Pepco-Exelon approved; The area grows; The history behind Reston; Gondola study gears up; Metro union impressed with Wiedefeld; Send in the drones; NYPD v. pedestrian; Behind BART’s twitter. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Budget bliss and big boulevards
Budget autonomy for the District; Wide plans for Rockville Pike; Bye bye Bi-County Parkway; Lyft discrimination; DCRA’s document drag; Metro-free nuclear zone; Proximity is key; Federally walk-blocked; What’s in a name?; And…. Keep reading…
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A trail from NoMa to the National Arboretum is in the works
Planning is officially underway for a new pedestrian and bike trail parallel to New York Avenue NE. The trail would run from NoMa through Ivy City and out to the National Arboretum. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Momentum in Maryland transit
In case you missed it; BRT in Montgomery; DC on bikes, 10 years out; Safety in numbers; It’s elementary; Late on the rent control; Off target; At least there are still stairs. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Let’s ride!
Streetcars are open; Retired trains; Separation of powers?; 11th Street bridge in 2019; Fix Fed buildings; Shelter-skelter; Baker attacks Hogan; The architecture of oppression. Keep reading…
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How can our commuter railroads be better? DC wants your input
Should MARC service run to L’Enfant Plaza? Should resources go toward more weekend commuter rail service? Every state in the US (including DC) has to create a plan for how to use its railways, these are some of the questions the District Department of Transportation is asking as it crafts its plan for passenger, commuter, and freight rail. Keep reading…
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The DC Streetcar starts service on Saturday. It took a wild ride to get here.
When DC’s H Street and Benning Road streetcar opens on February 27, it’ll run on rails that were first installed almost seven years earlier. We’ve been talking about this project since 2008, with hundreds of posts. The following is a little walk down memory lane to look at everything that’s happened. Keep reading…