Posts tagged Mta Maryland
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You can now bring your bike to Baltimore on weekend MARC trains
Starting this weekend, you can take your bike on select MARC trains running between Baltimore and DC on the Penn Line. MARC outfitted two rehabilitated passenger cars to carry passengers and their full-size bicycles. The bike cars will run on weekends between DC and Baltimore, for now. Keep reading…
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Chevy Chase grasps at straws in the Purple Line fight
The Town of Chevy Chase has run out of coherent arguments in its fight to keep the Purple Line away from its borders. Keep reading…
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MARC will add a bicycle car to some weekend trains
MARC plans to allow bicycles on some weekend trains on the Penn Line before the end of the year, a MARC official said last week. Bicycle advocates have long asked MARC to allow passengers to bring ordinary bicycles aboard MARC trains. MARC allows only folding bicycles on regular passenger cars. However, MARC is now spending $359,000 to convert two single-level passenger… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Affordable housing
Affordable housing debate; What affordable housing?; No more Half Street; Closing sidewalks in Bethesda; “Woods” against the bus; Cycling incidents go down; America’s changing suburbs; Metro pedestrian bridge coming in January; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Purple Line lawsuits
No lawsuit from Chevy Chase; Eminent Domain for Purple Line?; Fannie Mae selling headquarters; A new Ward 5; Stop blocking the streetcar; Howze outlines streetcar improvements; Bike lanes over car dependence; Massive sprawl in Belgium; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More money, more problems
Million dollar candidate; Housing on a budget; A crude conundrum; Baker goes to China; Seat Pleasant mayor not pleasant; App fights blight; Better grids mean better health; And…. Keep reading…
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The National Zoo and DC Metro fit together. So could Baltimore’s Zoo and its Metro (but they don’t).
While Washington has a Metro stop with “Zoo” in its name, the Metro subway in Baltimore and its zoo appear to ignore each other. Keep reading…
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MARC’s chief engineer wants to allow bikes on some weekend trains
The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is seriously looking at how to let passengers bring ordinary bicycles aboard MARC trains. A background briefing by top MARC officials last week left bicycle advocates with the distinct impression that they want to allow bikes on some weekend trains within the next year or so. MTA officials have long said that the combination of high… Keep reading…
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Behold how the Purple Line corridor is changing
When built, the Purple Line could dramatically improve transit commutes in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. To explore that and other changes the line will bring, researchers created a series of maps including this one of the “commute shed” of each Purple Line station, or how far you can get on transit before and after it’s built. Keep reading…
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With federal approval in hand, the pieces needed to build the Purple Line fall into place
The Federal Transit Administration has just issued a Record of Decision for the Purple Line, basically approving the 16-mile light rail line between Bethesda and New Carrollton. It’s one of the last pieces needed to build the line, which is scheduled to break ground next year and open in 2020. Keep reading…