Posts tagged Mta
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Breakfast links: For a safer system
Metro’s crime spike; No new fares; Unnecessary shutdown; Blizzard’s hefty price tag; Where’s our interchange?; New afforable housing projects; Picking Purple Line builders; Marriott’s decision deadline; No ballot initiative; Memorial sneak peek. Keep reading…
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New York’s subway has a great idea for Metro
Metro has made a lot of its problems worse by keeping the public in the dark. New general manager Paul Wiedefeld seems ready to open up, which could lead to political good will, fresh ideas, or even more funding. New York’s subway made this video explaining what’s wrong with its own infrastructure, and Metro might want to steal the idea. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Repurposed property
Buying Walter Reed; Plans for Franklin Park; Park (your bike) for free; Airbnburn; Solar ray of hope; Calling out crime; The hours less traveled by; Real-time subway saga; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Keep DC desirable
Still a magnet for millennials?; Boomers shift to the city; Will WMATARU succeed?; Pro-Bowser PAC launches; Bad tunnel deal; Service dog problems; Hogan’s popular; School boundary shuffle; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Who can save Metro?
Riders leaving; Needed: a leader; Prince George’s growing; Gen Y renters’ blues; The return of Gray?; Cuccinelli too; Mayor talks merger; DC’s Official Frivolous NEPA Pretext; And…. Keep reading…
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Maryland officials won’t talk about more MARC trains
Maryland transportation officials have nothing to say about running more MARC trains between Union Station and Frederick County. That’s what state legislators and commuters learned at a recent public meeting in Germantown. Keep reading…
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The MARC’s Brunswick Line only goes one way in the AM and the other in the PM. It could do both.
Service on the MARC Brunswick Line only runs one way at a time: toward DC in the morning and away from DC in the afternoon and evening, on weekdays only. Some MARC riders think there is a simple way to make service between DC and Brunswick run both ways in the early and mid-afternoon. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Help wanted
Job unwanted; Slow MoCo; Vote of no confidence; Merger short-circuited; Watch your step; Beyond White Flint; Region is changing; Bridge to the new; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Decisions are hard
How Hogan decided; Blown opportunity; Springfield evolution; Alley suit in Shaw; People counters; Let’s talk about sharing; Which MTA. Keep reading…
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MARC fares may go up more than they have to
Candidate, now Governor, Larry Hogan said he opposed higher fees and taxes. Yet the Maryland Transit Administration is increasing MARC fares by more than the state law seems to require. This coincides with large cuts to tolls for drivers, raising more questions about the Hogan administration’s support for transportation that runs on rails. Keep reading…