Posts tagged Metro Safety
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Breakfast links: Derailed and delayed
Derailment on the Orange and Silver Lines; Still up for public input; Can’t stop won’t stop RPP; Wizards facility price goes up; Better buses for I-66; Trip tracking not just for fun; Red signal special; Charlotte’s solid walls; Keeping up with the Joneses. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hottest day of the year
Record-setting heat; Too hot for fast trains; Can’t ban RPP?; New office, historic buildings; More red signal fallout; Lights out, Metro still running; NYC’s Metro-style shutdown; Lightning damage on the L. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Build that housing
Permit effects on housing; H Street’s newest connection; Mixed income with a community pool; Development east of the Anacostia; Maryland Ave NE road diet; Fight over Metro firing; Uber surges and SafeTrack; Open gangways for NYC’s subway. Keep reading…
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Metro ran 2 red lights in 8 days. How much danger were passengers in?
Eight trains so far in 2016 have run past red signals on the Metrorail system. On July 5th, two trains ended up facing each other (though still a fair distance apart) on the same tracks, and on July 13th a train at National Airport stopped past the end of the center platform at the station. Nobody was injured in either incident, but the trend is troubling. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Beating the heat
It’s getting hot in here; Had it with hot cars; Metro’s bad budget news; Can you hear me now?; Abandoned home angst; Hardly a plan in Arlington; Fuzzy math on robberies; More bus bays for King Street; This week in approvals; Big sales in the suburbs. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Statehood to a vote
One step closer to statehood; Prince George’s new perception; Grading the gondola; Taxi turn in Arlington; Give me a brake; Originally office, now housing instead; Rural gentrification; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Who gets the blame
You’re fired; Silver Line scapegoat?; Metro’s disability dilemma; Is standing on escalators better?; Big plans for Grosvenor; Big garage, big impact; Flexible transit benefits?; Victims’ struggle; VA expands road & rail; Go home when?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro’s making an effort
SafeTrack doesn’t fix it all; Metro’s back-breaking backlog; Metro money land; Uber for the commute; Co-working works; AirBnB argument; Chicago’s conundrum; Stadium parking racket. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro’s big bite of the Big Apple
NYC subway safety leader joins Metro; Mort Downey on the “death spiral”; Fairfax City does a 180 on homeless support; CaBi flourishes in Alexandria; Safety after the Fort Totten crash; Historic “shotgun house” plans; The skywalk is the limit…ing factor. Keep reading…
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SafeTrack work between Ballston and East Falls Church is nearly finished
Metro got more done than it expected during the first “surge” of SafeTrack, which required single tracking on the Orange and Silver Lines between Ballston and East Falls Church. The entire surge isn’t finished yet, but this is a good start for SafeTrack. Keep reading…