Posts tagged Fhwa
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Breakfast links: Bills, bills, bills
FTA could regulate transit; McDonnell doesn’t get everything; HUD helps PG; Gray holds One City summit; Little help from Obama; BW bike trail?; Lobby for Maryland equality; In Arlington…. Keep reading…
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Did the FTA have leeway on the 11th Street bridge?
FTA administrator Peter Rogoff and his PR team are disputing Thursday’s story on streetcar tracks on the 11th Street bridge. In that article, I wrote, “The question here is whether FTA had to make the decision they did, or had leeway.” It’s become even more clear that that indeed is the fundamental question. In an op-ed on the Washington Post’s… Keep reading…
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Streetcar tracks deleted from 11th Street Bridge (for now)
The $300 million 11th Street bridge project won’t have streetcar tracks after all, at the insistence of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Instead, it will have structural elements to make it easier to add tracks in the future, but that will cost much more and take many more years. The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) originally planned to place tracks… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: The American Revolution lives on
DC gains a GOP friend; Walter Reed could affect Embassy Row; States must return federal money; Challenge to the jobs mantra; Transit is a tool of economic development; Maybe our AAA isn’t the worst; Virginia ratifies bevy of laws; Australia literally paying for sprawl; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Orange you glad?
Orange wins; Investigation of Gray admin hits snag; Good signs and bad for MARC; MoCo will fight immigration rules; How is Metro today?; MoCo picks new schools chief; London bikeshare outgrowing itself; AASHTO backpedals on bike-ped objections; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s in a number?
Streetcar almost done; Affordable housing takes hit; Pentagon fudged on BRAC numbers; Bike thefts growing problem; Mixed neighborhoods are prefered; From one election to another; Drivers apparently oblivious; CaBi data dump; And…. Keep reading…
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New national design guide moves bike infrastructure forward
It didn’t grab headlines, but safer cycling infrastructure took a step forward recently with a new guide for cities and a helpful clarification from the Federal Highway Administration. Planners and engineers design any bike lane around standards. There are two existing guides out there. One for signs and markings: the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Feds pay up
Feds speed up Silver Line funding; Congress orders feds to pay stormwater fees; Transit can never be fully secured; Glenmont getting garage; Silver Spring still debating library ped bridge; Car passenger pulls gun on pedestrians; Are film incentives worth it?; Buy America makes HSR costly; And…. Keep reading…
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Too that noticed I’ve
A recent xkcd comic is very appropriate: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taking it to court
Livable, walkable, safety, jobs; Small crowd, Giant opposition; Policy poor for Purple; Arlington still steamed over HOT lanes; Replacing two cars with ten bikes; Get da dish on da trees; It may be safer, but it’s reckless. Keep reading…