Posts tagged Inauguration
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Metro listens on inauguration fares and parking fees
We’ve been beating up on Metro a lot lately, so it’s nice to have some good news to report. According to the Post, WMATA staff will recommend a fare modification to the board to charge peak fares during inauguration, and to charge regular rates for parking. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to get to Pennsylvania Avenue
By whistlestop railroad tour: President-elect Obama will get on a train after a rally in Philadelphia, meet Joe Biden for a rally in Wilmington, then stop in Baltimore before continuing to DC. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Progress and detours
Robocars are almost here: An autonomous VW built by Stanford managed to navigate a blockaded Eleventh Avenue in Manhattan during a demonstration, stopping at stop signs, avoiding other vehicles and pedestrians. How long until we have real autonomous vehicles on regular streets? Check out the video. Tip: Phil Lepanto. Keep reading…
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Free Metro parking for inauguration?
Metrorail set its highest-ever ridership record on Friday, July 11th, with a combination of a Nationals game, high gas prices, conferences and summer tourism driving over 854,000 people to the trains. But everyone expects that record to pale in comparison to January 20, 2009: the inauguration of President Obama. Keep reading…