Posts tagged Government
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Breakfast links: Suggestions paying off
Metro going express around single tracking; New building skirts parking requirements; Carpooling is in decline; VA legislator wants no more red light cameras; Pepco continues to disappoint; Clean snow off your car!; Road salt turns into river salt; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Shoveling out news
Plowing priorities kill pedestrian; Throw a snowball, get throat cut; During the snow…; Sarles explains snow service decision; Sarles official, finalizes contract; Two very different House Republicans; Roads in urban areas safer; London neighborhood council “bans” cycling on path; And…. Keep reading…
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Senate committee backs infrastructure, but not bike lanes
“We need to take care of this sooner than later,” Senator. Barbara Boxer said yesterday morning in reference to a surface transportation reauthorization. “We can’t keep doing extension after extension.” Before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee even has all its members named (that should happen in the next day or so, according… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Let it snow
Snow highlights city/suburb difference; Buses not spared from wintry mess; Why H Street isn’t developing faster; Half-busy day for WMATA Board; Bag search feedback mixed; O’Malley to use transportation fund to cut deficit; Mendelson calls for better traffic enforcement; NYPD cracks down on cyclists; And…. Keep reading…
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Live chat with Sekou Biddle
Welcome to our live chat with Sekou Biddle, interim at-large member of the DC Council and a candidate to keep the seat in April’s special election. #cil_page .mainchat { position: relative; overflow: auto; } Live chat with Sekou Biddle(01/26/2011) Close 12:56 David Alpert: Welcome to our live… Keep reading…
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Why don’t people obey the rules when they ride a bike?
On a recent Saturday night, about 11 pm, I was biking home while the wind-chill whipped at 10 degrees. Despite the “No Turn on Red” sign at 15th and New Hampshire and Florida and W Streets, I turned. There was no traffic, I couldn’t feel my face, and I just wanted to get home. Half a block later a policeman pulled me over. “There was no turn on red at that last… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: State of the union’s infrastructure
Obama for more infrastructure, clean energy; Cantor wants infrastructure but not to pay for it; Who doesn’t the GOP care about transit?; Smith to students: Don’t participate in our democracy; Many DCPS teachers turn down bonuses; Sarles brings stability, but…; Silver Line costs on the rise; More subways, not that kind; NoMa Summer Screen with trains!; And…. Keep reading…
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3rd birthday party tonight, chat with Sekou Biddle and at-large candidate forum tomorrow
Come on down to RFD tonight for our third birthday party! We’ll be there from 6:30-9:30. The entrance is on 8th Street, NW between H and I, near Gallery Place Metro, lots of buses, and a Capital Bikeshare station. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Spotlight on roads
PG residents want brighter roads; SHA trying darker roads; Bad bills and bad Senators who support them; Money’s for roads, but he wants control of Metro; Maryland needs new crosswalk strategy; Gray, Brown ride $2,000/month SUVs; Talking transit, taxes and election tactics; National Harbor to add gas station; And…. Keep reading…
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Let’s talk Sarles
I’ll be on TBD’s NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt starting at 10 to discuss the news that the WMATA Board has decided to keep Richard Sarles on as GM/CEO. Jim Dinegar from the Greater Washington Board of Trade, and Post reporter Ann Scott Tyson, are also participating. You can watch the segment live here. Keep reading…