Posts tagged Maps
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Breakfast links: Now serving crepes
Metro Station Map Makeover; Metro Center misnomer; The Smart Money’s on Smart Growth; The Footloose Synagogue; Bike-Share Your Way to Global Tyranny; VRE Slowing; Bus Stops Become Parking in NY; Connecting the Anacostia Tributary Trails; Street Crêpes Easier in Arlington. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Wet and muddled
What a storm; No IZ units yet; Communication train wreck continues in slow motion; Will Latino museum be interesting?; Living close to transit is cheaper; Photography legal despite what guards say; And…. Keep reading…
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Bike sharing maps multiply
In addition to recommending Capital Bikeshare locations, DDOT published maps showing some of their analysis to determine the locations: Keep reading…
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How fast is your bus? WMATA maps bus speeds
As Bob Thomson reported on Sunday, WMATA has created maps showing the average speeds of buses across the region. These maps help illuminate where we could most help riders and also save money through strategic placement of bus lanes, queue jumpers, signal priority and more. I’d been able to see early drafts of this map from WMATA officials. They have now finished the analysis… Keep reading…
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DDOT still tweaking bike share location map (now done)
DDOT let us know that the map you saw this morning wasn’t completely final; we all noticed the map before it was quite ready. They are now making some adjustments and will officially release it later today. Update: It’s now released and embedded on the original post. Earlier, I noted the absence of a station at Howard University, and commenters pointed out a conspicuous… Keep reading…
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DDOT selects Capital Bikeshare locations
DDOT has announced a preliminary set of locations for its 100 Capital Bikeshare stations (via TheWashCycle): Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Map to the secret
Amtrak as a subway; The secret’s out; “Sweeperscam”? “Robo-snitch”?; Norton news; Use creativity, not ART; Still off the MARC; “Increasingly difficult” to keep up; And…. Keep reading…
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Communication is everything on “Blue Line Realignment,” a.k.a. the “Yellow and Orange Line Service Increase”
Metro plans a relatively minor service change that will significantly increase overall system capacity. The way it’s framed will either help the change see widespread adoption or else derail the idea, cause enormous customer confusion, or force changes to the Metro map that cause other confusion. Metro has often called this the “Blue Line Split” or “Blue… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trees and tickets
Save your trees; Business cuts tree; DC leaders and traffic infractions; Kwame in the hole; Remembering Swanson’s death and inaction; Your house in an 8-bit video game; And…. Keep reading…
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That nice map… never mind
In the “security”-obsessed reality we live in, having something as simple as a not-very-high-resolution map of water pipes out there on the Internet is enough to make government-types wet their pants (water related puns—gotta love ‘em!). This morning, I received notice from Alan Heymann, the Public Affairs Director of DC Water, that the EPA contacted… Keep reading…