Posts tagged Metro Accountability
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Breakfast links: The cost of change
No paid leave; No eating, drinking, or loading SmarTrip; Metro on time; Strip it down; Connect the (railcar) dots; Bike lane blues; Flags for cyclist safety?. Keep reading…
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The new WMATA head is meeting with riders. Here’s why that matters
Paul Wiedefeld, WMATA’s new general manager, recently met with riders at L’Enfant Plaza, will talk with the new WMATA Riders’ Union Monday, and will field Greater Greater Washington readers’ questions Tuesday. All this could signal the start of a positive new chapter for an agency that has received a lot of criticism for poor communication. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Falling into place
Some predictions for the streetcar; District of Pepco; FBI falling apart; The FTA is watching; Don’t profile me; Keep the trains running; Waterfront plan sets sail; Million-dollar Brookland; Dogs allowed; And…. Keep reading…
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WMATA is rolling out a new program for collecting customer feedback
Want to give WMATA some feedback about your experience with Metrorail, Metrobus, or MetroAccess? Amplify, the agency’s new “customer community” that launched Monday, might help you (and 4,999 others) with that. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro is listening
Metro seeking input; Fewer trains, steady ridership; Tax break incentives; Layoffs at LivingSocial; Falling wages; Not homeless anymore; Carpooling the Uber way; Gallaudet redevelopment advances; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro madness and density duels
Skip the stop; Still too many short trains; Mort malfeasance?; Doesn’t want density; Putting out fires; Repect Rock Creek; The walking dead; Forget globally, fund locally; And the newest objection to bike lanes is. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro madness
Check us out; Panic! at the Metro; Papal pressure; Walk for a change; The race is on; No crossing borders; Razor sharp; And…. Keep reading…
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Metro isn’t running as many trains through Farragut West as it would like
Metro’s schedules call for running 25 to 26 trains per hour in each direction through the Blue/Orange/Silver subway, but the actual number running has been closer to the low 20s. What’s going on here? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bumps in the road
What’s next White Flint; Ivy City changes; O Street Green; Enough is enough; Go big or go home; Getting there; Bucks win; Housing on HBO. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: We’d really like nice things
Less money; Escalator out; Why transit stinks here; Police on camera; Pennsylvania Avenue revitalized; Maximize the Mall; Tapped out; Singing for statehood; In LA the car is out; Hello old friend. Keep reading…