Posts tagged Ddot
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Breakfast links: Transit trials
Plans for BRT; Study first; Should busking be allowed?; Less transit regulation?; Faster transit projects; A city without slums; A better bus stop; And…. Keep reading…
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DDOT’s 5-point plan to improve 16th Street buses
DDOT isn’t yet willing to install a bus lane on 16th Street, but the agency is moving forward on a host of other improvements, and will study a bus lane next year. The 16th Street bus line is bursting at the seams. It carries more than half of rush hour trips on 16th Street. But the buses are slow, and they’re so full that riders in the city’s close-in neighborhoods… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What we learned about bicycling
Milloy rides; “We don’t ticket our own”; Transformation and affordability; Inner Harbor 3.0; One step closer to ridesharing; Designing for mental health; Vancouver’s baby boom; DIY toll road; And…. Keep reading…
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Montgomery and DC officials start talking about working together on transit
DC is designing a streetcar that could end just shy of the Maryland line, while Montgomery County is planning Bus Rapid Transit lines that could dead-end at the border with the District. Can the two transportation departments work together? Officials from both jurisdictions met last week to see if they could build some cooperation. Montgomery and DC leaders recognize that their… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Drive safe
The stats on crashes; The crashiest intersections; Make one-way two; Check out no parking; Heliport or not?; Andy Harris, fix my pothole; Construction kills fish; The Bike Lobby brainwashes reporters!; And…. Keep reading…
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A gap in the Met Branch Trail slowly closes
The Metropolitan Branch Trail, which runs along the Red Line’s eastern segment, still has a number of large gaps. The largest stretches from the Fort Totten trash transfer station to the Maryland line. DC officials recently announced they are moving ahead with preliminary engineering and design to close this gap. WABA made an infographic showing the trail’s progress:… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Democracy in action and inaction
Speed cameras all the time; No democracy at Eastern Market; Slow down Maryland Ave; Gas delays green street; Hillandale yellin’ over Yellen guards; Georgetown could lose gas stations; Where do the embassies go?; More tickets in bike lanes; Crashes are deadlier than war; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transportation equipment that doesn’t move
Boxy units; Streetcar in November?; Council votes yes to say no; Bike bits; Copenhagen’s cycle snake; Parking space living; Take the kids on Uber; Lyft launch postponed; WiFi for safety. Keep reading…
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The DC region lost 60 miles of bus lanes. It’s time to get them back
Prior to 1976, the Washington region had at least 60 miles of bus-only lanes, with even more proposed. This map shows where they were. Keep reading…
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The 15th Street cycletrack will soon continue up the hill to Columbia Heights
When the 15th Street cycletrack opened in 2010 with great fanfare, bicycle planners talked about extending it farther north. But attention shifted to other important projects. Now, it’s coming back, and the cycletrack should lengthen from V Street to Euclid Street sometime in 2015. Keep reading…