Posts tagged Florida
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Breakfast links: Pressure’s building
Tensions mount over budget; The signs of disengagement; Up in arms over car barn; A walk down K Street; Confusion burns; First, they came for our land…; Florida HSR would have been profitable; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Busing it
Seven Corners gets transit center; Redevelopment rumblings for Glenmont; Counting the homeless; Residents stuck in limbo; Gas taxes are the best; When sprawl isn’t sprawl; Thriving without parking; To save or not to save?; Rents may fall. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: What rails?
Slowing China’s trains; Florida’s almost-rail; How not to build BRT; MLK Memorial quote to change; Escalating escalator replacement; Uber crackdown begins; An expensive transition; Walk like me. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Is it ethical?
Scandal of the week: Tampa trip; Catania making $240K from electric contractor; Is Metro friendly for kids?; Beware confusing SmarTrip balance readouts; Contractor, MWAA dispute Silver Line delays; Megabus in, tour buses out; Residents disagree on Adams Morgan’s future; DC urges WMATA to hire more residents; Light rail to Charles Co?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Government moves
Maryland agency to New Carrollton; Tax increase on wealthy likely today; Orange pushes full-time, term-limited council; DC teachers pick merit pay; Fiona vs. Jack?; Senate could cut partnership; Who are the free riders?; Miami Park(ing) Day organizer arrested; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Getting serious about parks
Tourmobile’s end “likely”; A tale of two parks; Numerology of bus transit; DC’s gays live closer to downtown; Maryland and counties duel on Smart Growth; Floridians run for their lives; Suburban poverty rising; The ultimate environmentally destructive highway; Capital cities unfairly reviled; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Feds slowly seeing the light
GSA will charge for parking; CaBi might come to the Mall, eventually; WMATA raises upheld; Judge tosses charges for cyclist-assaulting driver; Density can be counterintuitive; Mortgage interest deduction is a lopsided subsidy; NYC transit chief quits for “a much better job”; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Precious on-street parking
Car sharing may get competition; Central DC parking spaces now have pay by phone; More on taxis; Ravtich Rhee-thinks Rhee-form; Transit site redesign a flop; Holy water denied; SF to LA, 32 hours on trains and buses; Mica’s district hates his plan; And…. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: How we compare
Metro areas ranked by pedestrian safety; Why Washington is better than Atlanta; DC second fittest; biking a factor?; Gray wants Skyland Walmart; Cheh proposes awesome budget ideas; VRE bends over backwards; HSR an even clearer win for California than France; Building transit takes a long time. Keep reading…
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Northeast, California win big in high speed rail grants
The federal government today announced $2 billion in new grants for high-speed passenger rail projects around the country. $800 million will go to rail improvements along the Northeast Corridor, and $300 million for high-speed rail in California. The funds are left over from $2.4 billion which had been originally allocated to Florida, but which governor Rick Scott returned… Keep reading…