Posts tagged Metro Crash
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Breakfast links: Eat nearby
Fancy food for St. Elizabeths; Graham throws dirt, hits self; DC’s just roads and parking to you?; Train goes up stairs; Silver Line too bureacratic?; Crash victims get memorial park; Kids lose out; People are happy with DC; Build for cars, transit costs more; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Get out of the bike lane
Drivers ignore cycle tracks; DDOT hall of shame; A pop-up ban?; Nobody votes for the mayor anymore; Taxi drivers sue city to stop impounding cars; Metro accomplishes safety recommendations; Whole Foods comes to H Street NE; Big change in China?; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Arrive
Anacostia gets costlier; Gray flies to China on the cheap; Nationals sell out; DC aims to take back buses; Church looks to own entire block; The diversity of LeDroit Park; Hong Kong becomes mega-region without unity; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bigger and better Metro
No extension on extension decision; Safety on the rise; More sprawl faster; No parking for post; Hine closer to consensus; Rant wrong on libertarianism, right on DPW failure; Crystal City will be more crystal-like; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Millions
CaBi tops 1.5 million rides; Metro admits blame; Bill encourages complete streets; More seats for NoVa on transpo board; Old is the new green; One way around a height limit; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bills, bills, bills
FTA could regulate transit; McDonnell doesn’t get everything; HUD helps PG; Gray holds One City summit; Little help from Obama; BW bike trail?; Lobby for Maryland equality; In Arlington…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Oldest inhabitants
DC wants to keep its WWI memorial; Audit for Union Station management; Death in Rockville crash; Shady deal in Catoe’s Metro; An avalanche of tickets; Think of the tourists; Madrid swaps highway for park; Battle of the buses; Core capacity for BART. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Money trouble
More theft at DC tax office; DC cuts, then restores, seniors program; Metro suing insurance provider; Taxi commission is a mess; Tysons could be your new home; Norfolk embraces light rail; Sun shines on transit police; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Police and crime, but not always both
Arrested for reporting on Taxi Commission; What’s “impeding traffic”?; Bus drivers angry; Crash victims remembered, maybe with park; Arlington crowdsources CaBi placement; Dense(r) center near Quantico; Parking by day, shows at night; And…. Keep reading…
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Metro needs calm, proactive hazard analysis
NTSB members’ emotional tongue-lashing of Metro last week may have been well deserved. But the NTSB critique also risks being counterproductive unless cooler heads prevail at WMATA, focused more on actual safety than on just responding to NTSB. NTSB’s safety recommendations are reactive, not proactive. They illuminate the facts of the crash, but are unhelpful… Keep reading…