Posts tagged Elevators
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Breakfast links: It’s not really a big college town
Howard Town Center lawsuit tossed; Gallaudet growth; More residential to Capitol Riverfront; Needed: a lot more housing; Bus ridership beats rail in most cities; Can our shoulders carry buses?; Pedestrian tunnel gets a hearing; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not working?
Little movement in test scores; Hampton doesn’t need roads; Developer sues over empty IZ units; Recriminations over red tops; Free parking fight, 1955 on the Ellipse; From Russia with civic ambivalence; Not so sudden developments; Work done on Wisconsin; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Guilty
Charges in Gray investigation; Barry’s improbable Monday; Where the murders were; Keep your balance, CaBi; 4th best bike city; Not loving the car; Fort Walkable; The cul-de-sac tower; Quality beats quantity in transit; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Harder and easier with wheels
DC cycle tracks get boost; Metro sort of accessible; Biddle not out yet; In not shocking news; VDOT selling housing properties; No pedestrian plaza on 10th; Dupont parking meeting roundup; Legal to exclude reporters in Loudoun?; Have 8 hours to kill?; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Calm traffic to improve your life
Slow down to speed up; Calm circles for Arlington?; Elevator problems plague NYC; Bike the Big Easy; Party… like it’s 1776; MoCo requires a bike sharing station; Reconsider your commute; Gov. Brown makes streets more dangerous; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast Links: The value of helmets
Black women talk about biking; CaBi users to get helmets; Bus alerts coming; Accessible but inconvenient; From warehouse to office; Bad news for Hyattsville development; Can voters trust Michael A. Brown?; And…. Keep reading…
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Confusing Metro elevator signs simple to fix
Small signs to find elevators and inconsistent labels on elevator buttons make it hard to navigate the Metro system. Better signage could do a lot to help passengers needing to use elevators. Last month, we featured a letter from Denver resident Deena Larsen, who attempted to use Metro in a wheelchair without much success. For riders unfamiliar with the system, it can be extremely… Keep reading…
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Take Metro in a wheelchair, just once
Do Metro executives know what the Metro is like for a person who uses a wheelchair? When Deena Larsen, a wheelchair-using Denver resident, took the Metro from Union Station to Smithsonian to see the cherry blossoms, the trip was so frustrating that she cried.First, I tried for 20 minutes to find an accessible elevator at Union Station. I was directed to a long hall and four… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Where cycling is valued
Lincoln Park getting ped, bike treatment; Thanks for cycling, rest your foot; More bikes than cars; Burglaries drop in DC; Atlanta, New Haven and the Bronx get the TIGER; Solar’s agenda lights up; Round and round. Keep reading…
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What should we expect from elevators and escalators?
An audit confirmed what most riders already knew: Metro’s escalators and elevators are not working like they should. The audit identified a number of places where maintenance processes and training could do a better job for maintainance and repair of escalators and elevators. The audit itself hasn’t been released, but according to Assistant General Manager… Keep reading…