Posts tagged Jim Moran
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Breakfast links: Up, up, and away
The height limit is popular; Minimum wage going up; More parking for Huntington; Where do the kids go?; Marijuana bill moves forward; Rep. Moran retiring; Express lanes fall short; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Know the rails
A good ridership reduction; Roads vs. rails; Can you hear me now? How about 2015?; I can park where I want; Alerts on Maps; Transit greatly helps congestion; Inspectors didn’t inspect; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Out with the old
Go higher?; Longer Metro; Old Metro radios; Financial outlook cloudy?; The shadow knows; Bocce balls come to Ballston; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Not going down
Long escalators aren’t worse; Where 5ers stand; Now Capitol Bikeshare, too; Disabled parking abuse rampant; What if… no height limit and crazy architects?; Beauregard a go; More room to eat your jumbo slice; Siding sidelines project; Plan transportation for Fairfax; And…. Keep reading…
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Park Service inflexibility draws criticism from Congress
Last night, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) brought up the pervasive problems with the National Park Service through an Interior Appropriations amendment. It was withdrawn as an unpermitted earmark, but Reps. Jim Moran (D-VA) and Mike Simpson (R-ID) both expressed support for ending the Park Service’s “one size fits all” approach to urban parks. You… 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: Can’t we all get along?
Too many wars?; Cop assaults citizen with car; Republicans good for biking?; Colonel Brooks project zoning stalls; Moneme lobbies former WMATA colleagues; Examining Metro’s capital budget; A national bag fee?; Construction afoot in Near SE; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Solutions for Northern Virginia
DoD to pay for express buses to Mark Center; Reps want Metro extension studies; How to get complete streets in Alexandria?; Alexandria proposes own Metro Board changes; Talking streetcars with Dan Tan; Snow preparation costs money; NYC taxis all disappear at the same time; Barclay Bikes not so great?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Prince George’s moving forward, mostly
PG Metro board member yanked; Leslie Johnson won’t control development; Teen killed in hit and run; Gray education picks are strong reformers; Zimmerman looks ahead; Overhead wire bill approved; Dulles Metro station far for security reasons?; Tell station managers about escalators; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Count it!
The Census is in; Census results complicate DC vote fight; New federal money for K Street transitway; New UMD president gets the Purple Line; Tax break and much more passes; BRAC parking cap cut from defense bill; WABA begins responsible cycling campaign; Passenger rail coming to Norfolk; Pick a mode in SF. Keep reading…