Posts tagged Metro Crash
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The Price of Safety
Following the June 22 crash on Metro’s Red Line, numerous questions have arisen regarding safety on Metro. Most of these questions focused on the immediate cause of the crash that killed 9 and left scores injured. At this point, the National Transportation Safety Board has still not completed their investigation, so much of the information available is, at best, informed… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Outdoor people and places
Car-Free photos; Anti H Street festival; Better pictures of the huge bike; High taxes for blight but not vacancy; MWAA now a road-widening agency?; A little relief on BRAC; NTSB: Fix the mystery track circuits; Grants grants grants; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Still safer than driving, but how safe?
Another Metro fatality; Near-crash kept secret; Sidewalks: Prudent or fascist?; Feet in the Street really in the Park; Most prefer MARC to Hagerstown; Highways displace streetcars, again; Take me out on the water to the ballgame. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Full of hot air
Subway air-powered art; How’s your track doing?; Country lane or hazard to children? Both?; No room for books between the parking lots; Shaw rejoices; Gaithersburg fairly progressive after all; Roundabouts for Maryland, too?; Best cities for singles are walkable. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links II: Roads, rails and walls
Widening 270 is very bad for Baltimore; Yet another highway?; Game trains you to move cars above all; The people I used to be are ruining my neighborhood!; Riders not happy; Lynx links new riders to transit; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Green places also have quick curbs, market-priced meters, and safe trains
DC’s “green” places; Giving with one hand, taking away with another; Track circuts keep breaking; Metro restricts info?; 270 bad for environment, political balance; Watergate sold! Or, nobody bids on the Watergate!; Business owner prevents customers from parking at meters; Maybe San Francisco will do it. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Maryland train to crazy town
Red and Purple together; Single tracking??!?; MTA out of the spying biz; Crime down, experts happy but baffled; The street e?; 1000s in train middles not a new idea; Walk or bike to Metro?. Keep reading…
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Red Line suspended part of Thursday and most of Saturday
Tomorrow (Thursday) and Saturday, Metro will suspend Red Line service between Fort Totten and Silver Spring, splitting the red line into two segments and closing the Takoma station. The NTSB needs to close the line as part of its crash investigation. Keep reading…
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Breafast links: Mostly Metro
$150 million one step closer; Backups: Good for your photos, good for Metro; Stand clear; It’s not the texting, it’s that he got caught?; Tarnished silver; Virginia, others underfund bikes and peds again. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Same old, same old
Metro is more than just the train; ReadOn; Denser counties safer, motorcycling not; More stop sign tickets; A loophole and a sex-shop flounder; A fourth the parking; Advice to GOP: Be innovative, except in transportation?; Wonder Woman wins!. Keep reading…