Posts tagged Gas Prices
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Breakfast links: Time to go
Metro closes @metroopensdoors; Elections chief quits; Wells calls for Thomas to resign; Hope for the Anacostia?; Montgomery approves first charter school; No free parking on commercial street; We don’t spend a lot on gas; A look inside Metro; And…. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Budget surprises
New revenue funds few priorities; Councilmembers should read amendments; Residents obeying laws more; NJ rep takes money from NJ rails; Return of the luxury train; Women biking = the economy?; So much for conservation; Hampshire-Cowen for TOD, solutions; Council opposes Western Bypass. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Quality of life
Why are gas prices high?; Brown’s top priority: Chocolate milk; People explain why they bike; Clean up after your dogs; Sears interested in our tax breaks; West End library not quite as affordable?; Union asked about transit operations; 2-year terms for Maryland delegates?; And…. Keep reading…
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What’s the true cost of gas?
People have been complaining about high gas prices lately, but in reality, Americans are getting quite a bargain. What’s the true price of gas? This video from the Center for Investigative Reporting attempts to answer the question. Keep reading…
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How far has bicycling come since 1979?
The year was 1979. The Iranian Revolution led to oil shortages and long lines at the pump. Maryland Governor Harry Hughes proposed rationing gas. Levittown drivers rioted when gas prices rose to a whopping $1 a gallon. And large numbers of people tried bicycling to work. Peter Harnik wrote an op-ed in the June 23, 1979 Washington Post about the sudden rise in bicycling: On Wednesday… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Hang out at the gas station
Eat here, get gas; Gas dependence varies nationally; Station manager to the rescue; Pay by mail fine for a coma; Senate pushes for complete streets; WMATA improving web outreach; No ultimatum to Walmart; Only laws the police know about matter; Rehab the rehabbers; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: There’s still hope
Can bike lanes keep proliferating?; Alexandria still pondering CaBi; DoD could hold BRAC moves; Issa would help DC; Hand wringing over gas prices; Marylands tolls cheap, need raising; Blumenauer wants better commuter benefit; Big racial gap in housing, here & elsewhere; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Destruction is nigh!
14th & T will be destroyed!; Knight Rider roams Nevada; Nobody uses CaBi, it’s too crowded; Local officials partly to blame; A corner store does not a food desert make; Hug a tourist; Vibrant neighborhood keeps a local employer; Senate plugs in; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cuts all around
Cuts could kill?; DCPS cuts 660 jobs; Metro shuts markets; A gentrifier comes to Rosedale; CaBi keeps growing; WABA keeps low profile in Wards 7 & 8; Peds struck, one killed in Loudoun; Federal government to sell property; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Tough questions
Bikesharing no simple task; How to really answer a gentrification question; Struggling with higher gas prices; Region’s homeless count grows; Restaurants raise bar higher on food trucks; Gray all for TOD; Alexandria shares Mark Center blame; AdMo gets limted-time pop-up shop; And…. Keep reading…