Posts tagged Metro Expansion
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Breakfast links: Growth prompts area neighborhoods to build Metro entrances in advance
Area neighborhoods are planning for new Metro entrances. After a damning federal audit of DCHA, some leaders are calling for the agency to be overhauled. Protesters shut down Beltway in Maryland for climate. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rough rails, new trails
Monday meltdown; Protected lanes in Alexandria; Trail connections; Metro for Prince William?; Commuter lot bandits; Less taxation, still no representation; Unequal property values; Soccer prison?; And…. Keep reading…
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Which transit expansion ideas are possible? Which aren’t?
From time to time, WMATA’s planning office takes a look at proposals for transit projects that may seem far-fetched and considers whether they could really happen. The agency recently said it doesn’t foresee Metrorail expansion down to Occoquan or out to Chantilly, but that new BRT routes and MARC and VRE expansion are real possibilities. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Sadness
Tragedy; Bridge blues; Advertising ban; Go on-dola; New bike lanes?; HOT and bothered; 220 problems; Barriers to biking; And…. Keep reading…
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These maps show when and where riders use the Silver Line
Ridership is strong at the Silver Line’s Wiehle-Reston East and Tysons Corner stations, and over time there should be more riders at the other three stops. You can see this and other facts about Silver Line ridership from a new data visualization on PlanItMetro. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The right transit project?
Are transit fantasies folly?; Is this bus BRT?; A bike boom spills onto sidewalks; Montgomery’s elusive jobs numbers; Smog suffocates SLC; UberX gets a little pricier; Apps to cure distracted driving; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ain’t easy being transit
Why a bus lane is politically hard; Mini Metro shows real pressures; The waterfront will change; Rejected again; They still like Gehry’s Ike; Big concrete hot potato; Successful cities are growing less; New bike mecca: Pittsburgh; And…. Keep reading…
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CSG explains Metro Momentum in new video
The Coalition for Smarter Growth has just released a video supporting Metro Momentum, WMATA’s plan to increase Metrorail and Metrobus capacity, and a web tool to contact your local elected officials in support of funding Momentum. Keep reading…
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Topic of the week: Greater Greater 2024
Wednesday marks the start of 2014, but what about further into the future? We asked our contributors what they hope to be writing and reading about on Greater Greater Washington in 10 years. Dan Reed: I’d like to write about how the region’s ethnic enclaves, from Langley Park to Annandale, have become the new hot spots, drawing investment from around the globe as the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: From the future
Georgetown Metro station by 2040?; Make way for the Purple Line; FBI definitely leaving DC; Federal transit benefits set to lapse; Two tiers of municipal service?; Deep roots of affordable housing shortage; Montgomery funds storefront renovations; And…. Keep reading…