Posts tagged Government
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Breakfast links: Scolding all around
Bad Apple; Bad planning; Bad anti-planning; Bad candidate; Bad parker; Good blogs; Good slate. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Real or fake?
We didn’t have our minds made up, we swear; Our mind was made up, but now it’s not; PG HHS?; Transit-oriented Wal-Mart?; Don’t be afraid of the Purple Line, UMD; News flash: Not a lot of room to park; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dear Current, please get a real Web site
Sidewalks, assured; Don’t drive? You must not live here; These go to Elevenleytown; Tall TOD at PG Plaza?; Days since last injury: 1; Metro keeping its escalators; Cowening before trains; And…. Keep reading…
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Metro trip planner suggests riding a bus in a loop
Besides wanting to find out if they could get money from their data, Metro’s other stated reason for not working partnering Google was the quality and availability of Metro’s own trip planner. Sometimes, though, the trip planner gives bizarre results, even including riding a bus in a circle for an hour. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links I: Park and ride
No parking including city employees; Enforcing on the enforcers; Parking tickets aren’t taxes; Pay to valet; Krugman looks where Samuelson doesn’t; What’s really inefficient is freeway building; Baltimore testing smartcard; If you’re happy and you know it ride the train. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Highway robbery
MPD would rather white people didn’t file police reports in Trinidad?; Stop the Sprawlway; Moran: Widen 14th Street; Developers not interested in Purple Line, except those that are; DC can complete Georgia Avenue; Not even safe on the sidewalk in Glen Burnie; Be glad you don’t live in the OC; Chicago parking deal illegal or just bad?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Economic solutions, bureaucratic problems
Sluggers not hot on HOT; Yes, pricing existing lanes would be better; Get paid to move closer to work?; Washington Gas renegs on Capital City Diner; New private roads still create “silos”; Too much work to listen?; Now vs. then’s view of now. Keep reading…
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Why aren’t there buses to the memorials?
There’s no Circulator bus to the FDR Memorial. No bus to Hains Point. No Metrobus to the Jefferson Memorial or Lincoln Memorial, even though a variety of bus lines to Virginia pass right by them; the closest stops are at 14th and Independence or 22nd and Constitution, which aren’t that close. On the Mall itself, east of the Washington Monument, many buses including a DC… Keep reading…
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Minnesota-Benning road connection would substantially cut traffic
DC economic development rep Ayris Scales claims that a planned road connection around the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Benning Road is a “road to nowhere.” But according to a traffic study prepared for DDOT, the connection will meaningfully relieve traffic congestion in the area. It’ll also make the main intersection safer by lowering the numbers of… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Crack the cycle
Metro mishaps; Researchers work on more accurate predictions; Pro-transit 270 letter making the rounds; Fruit is okay?; Stop the rage; The Franklin not-school; The Senate on infrastructure. Keep reading…