Posts tagged Fta
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Breakfast links: Battle plans
Transportation battle at Manassas; MoCo gets bus bill; More Silver oversight; That smell; Teens imagine recreation bridge; Big BRT or big lanes?; Green roofs get more green; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What a compromise
Verdict: Transpo bill pretty terrible; Bill adds oversight for Metro; What’s going on in Loudoun?; Mendo for less density; What a house costs; Relief for water; And…. Keep reading…
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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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Weekend links: Taxes and spending
Taxis and taxes; Be patient with VA’s surplus; SmarTrip changes coming; It’s the zoning, stupid!; New York installs benches; Chicago’s poor attempt at congestion pricing; Philly testing complete street designs; And…. 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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Breakfast links: Suited for development
GSA focusing on TOD; A diffrerent redevelopment of Southwest; CaBi coming to Montgomery; How can Custis Trail improve?; Students want greater ANC role; Security gate creates danger; DC schoolbuses don’t make the grade; And…. Keep reading…
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GGW debates: Build Metro above or below ground at Dulles?
On Wednesday, DC Mayor Vince Gray became the latest public figure to enter the fray over the proposed Metro stop at Dulles Airport. Today, our contributors are weighing in. With costs rising, a vote by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority to support an underground station has pitted elected officials against each other over the location of the future stop. And the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unsatisfying
DDOT responds on bike lanes, sort of; IZ units arrive 5 years late; Nathan criticizes DCTC; Tysons may recalculate; One step closer, many to go for Baltimore Red Line; Alexandria seeks waterfront compromise; Bar opposes VA on principle; And…. Keep reading…
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CaBi coming to Rockville and Shady Grove
People living and working in the Rockville and Shady Grove areas will be able to use 200 Capital Bikeshare bikes on 20 stations next year, thanks to a federal grant which will be formally approved tomorrow. The bike-sharing program is one of 8 regional projects winning funding under the Job Access Reverse Commute (JARC) program from the FTA. JARC funds must go toward improving… Keep reading…