Posts tagged Mark Warner
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Breakfast links: Dedicated Metro funding?
Dedicated funding now; No Metro sales tax; A cause for celebration?; Respect the bus driver; Architecture and aging; Build at Braddock?; Mixed-use to retail; The benefit of city colleges; More wealthy babies; Driver’s ed for everyone; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The day the Metro stood still
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Breakfast links: Decisions are hard
How Hogan decided; Blown opportunity; Springfield evolution; Alley suit in Shaw; People counters; Let’s talk about sharing; Which MTA. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro moans
Crowded commutes continue; Senators soured; Digital age; Keeping score; Not fare; Building a better College Park; Boost the parkway; Konterra coming later. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to build community
BIDs can transform neighborhoods; Eisenhower Ave still lacking vibrancy; Warner wants Potomac bridge; Some cities banning plastic bags; DC stops paying federal lobbyists; Gray withdraws elections board nomination; Can you hear me now?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Honk if you have a vote in Congress
Take action (if you can); Who’s popular in Virginia; Kwame Brown now for ethics; Should Council be full-time or part?; ACT: Build Bethesda entrance faster; No more taking off shoes for kids; Suddenly it’s historic?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Everybody chips in
Taxing food trucks; Leggett’s budget rankles everybody; Angels take a hit; Live chat with George Hawkins; Baker’s balancing act; Real estate change hits local retail; Are intercity buses safe enough?; Urban rail safety bill back; And…. Keep reading…
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Senators threaten MWAA over DCA flight restrictions
Last year, members of the United States Senate were threatening to take over Metro if they didn’t get what they wanted. Now, they’re making those threats against the local airport authority, because it isn’t acceding to western senators’ demands to allow longer distance flights at National Airport. WTOP reports that Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)… Keep reading…
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FTA finds WMATA, TOC safety failings; Senators frustrated
The Federal Transit Administration found serious communication failures at WMATA surrounding safety, and an inadequate safety oversight system in the Tri-State Oversight Committee (TOC). At a briefing yesterday, area Congressional representatives seemed extremely frustrated at their inability to fix this problem. According to a report released yesterday, the current… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Neighborhoods speaking up
Libraries + architecture + DC gov = controversy; Scattershot humps no longer; H Street shuttle saved; Metro didn’t “bar” inspectors, but just said yes very slowly?; Transit-oriented concrete plant; Warner suggests BRAC congestion pricing; Cargo without the car. Keep reading…