Posts tagged Maps
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Metro halloween costumes
Readers Josh and John dressed up as the Metro system and the Silver Line for Halloween. They say that the costume was a huge hit, with almost every person they passed along U Street wanting to stop and get a picture. A Metro transit police officer also took a picture, and a train operator gave them a thumbs up. Keep reading…
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Get a cheesesteak in the future
Geoff and Jaime recently tried out a new Philly cheesesteak shop near 14th and U. They noticed something very odd about the Metro map on the back of the menu: Keep reading…
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What about a “Gold Line” for Route 7?
Last week’s pair of posts discussing the Silver Line and a high-speed link to Dulles posed ideas about triple tracking the Silver Line or creating a new line along the W&OD trail. While we’re looking at the Silver Line and transit in Fairfax, there is another opportunity that planners are missing: Route 7 through Falls Church and Fairfax County. Imagine if planners… Keep reading…
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London’s spider maps
Transport for London has these great bus maps that show routes traveling in all directions from major transit nodes. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hot trains, hot tempers
HSR looks better when you consider real projects; The bike lane made me commit assault; Bye bye boarders; It’s hot in there; Park the festival; And…. Keep reading…
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Metro releases station-oriented bus maps
Metrorail stations contain very informative bus maps showing the routes around a particular station. We recently looked at those at asked what additional bus map information you would find useful online. Metro decided to take our suggestion and post the station bus information maps online on each station’s webpage. They haven’t posted all of the information that… Keep reading…
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Passenger flow for individual Metro stations
In late July, I wrote about passenger flows on the Metro system. Unfortunately, the study had to cope with limitations in the data from Metro. Better data would certainly yield more informative results, we can perhaps glean some more information from the existing data. Some readers asked about breaking down the data to create flow maps for individual stations. To estimate… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Switch
Try solar?; Don’t dump Zipcar yet; We’re impressive; Win free transit!; City of College Parking; Reading about Moses; Smarter rankings; Recession’s effects. Keep reading…
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Where the Metro riders are, and aren’t
How full are Metro’s trains at any point in the system? What routes do riders take when confronted with a choice between two transfers, or between a longer one-seat ride and a transfer? Last year, in discussing maps I created about the proposed Blue Line reroute, a reader asked about this, but Metro hasn’t collected the data. To answer this question, classmate and… Keep reading…
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Where we live
MWCOG created these graphics showing the origins of commuting trips to various employment areas. Not surprisingly, people generally cluster nearer to their jobs, and around major transportation facilities. People who work in Tysons or Reston/Herndon are the most spread out, while people who work in downtown DC concentrate in smaller areas. The patterns of workers in the… Keep reading…