Posts tagged Emeka Moneme
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Breakfast links: Can’t we all get along?
Too many wars?; Cop assaults citizen with car; Republicans good for biking?; Colonel Brooks project zoning stalls; Moneme lobbies former WMATA colleagues; Examining Metro’s capital budget; A national bag fee?; Construction afoot in Near SE; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cutting the bureaucracy
No Mo’neme II; Ask about buses; Less red tape, more food carts; CHRS now really opposes wires; Neon coming back; The state of sprawl; Enough industrial plants?. Keep reading…
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Why didn’t the Board find out about Metro’s denial to Tri-State Oversight?
We know that Metro refused to let a safety oversight board access live tracks. So why didn’t anyone tell the General Manager or the Board? Keep reading…
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Google Transit isn’t about Google
Technology writers and entrepreneurs talk about “innovation” a lot. It’s a tough concept, though. For many people, the products and companies we can see and touch right now are easy to grasp, while the vague potential of people building new tools we can’t conceive of today is less obvious. Keep reading…
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Metro endorses openness for schedule data
At Thursday’s board meeting, I spoke about Google Transit and the broader issues of communication at Metro. Chief Administrative Officer Emeka Moneme stated unequivocally that Metro agrees with the principle of making schedule data available beyond just wmata.com: Keep reading…
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No Mo’neme
DDOT Director Emeka Moneme has resigned. The Post reports that Moneme was “irked by Fenty’s hands-on managing style”; my sources say there was a growing dissatisfaction with Moneme from the Fenty administration as well. Keep reading…
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Connecting communities (or not)
It was Councilmember Marion Barry (ward 8) who had the day’s most relevant quote. “Streetcars are about connecting communities,” he said, as he urged his colleagues to support the proposed 1.3-mile, $43-million Anacostia demonstration streetcar in his ward. There’s only one problem: the proposed line doesn’t connect communities at all. There’s no community on South Capitol… Keep reading…
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Transparently slanted Post article pits suburbanites against the city
Post reporter Eric Weiss went trolling for suburban elected officials to condemn DC’s pedestrian-friendly transportation improvements, creating an article that casts DC’s efforts to improve pedestrian conditions as hostile moves against suburban commuters. It’s a classic newsitorial, sporting this opening line: “The District is escalating… Keep reading…