Posts tagged Mta
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Montgomery faces a hard decision with Bethesda tunnel
It’d be very expensive to keep the Capital Crescent Trail and the Purple Line in the same tunnel in Bethesda. The Maryland Transit Administration analyzed some options, but there is no silver bullet. The Montgomery County Council will have to make a tough choice between spending a lot of money or taking the trail out of the tunnel. The Capital Crescent Trail (CCT) runs in… Keep reading…
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Changes mean more Purple Line and trail grade-separation
Maryland’s MTA is removing the only grade-crossing between Silver Spring and Bethesda in its plans for the Purple Line. This will improve the experience of trail users on the adjacent Capital Crescent Trail and could improve reliability of the light rail line. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Feds slowly seeing the light
GSA will charge for parking; CaBi might come to the Mall, eventually; WMATA raises upheld; Judge tosses charges for cyclist-assaulting driver; Density can be counterintuitive; Mortgage interest deduction is a lopsided subsidy; NYC transit chief quits for “a much better job”; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Closed to the public
Anything ANC 5A says is meaningless; Taxi Commission not talking; Park Police also harassing pedicabs; WMATA needs more officers?; New York gets marriage equality; NY creating transit “lockbox”; Culture trumps economics; Don’t believe everything you read; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Precious on-street parking
Car sharing may get competition; Central DC parking spaces now have pay by phone; More on taxis; Ravtich Rhee-thinks Rhee-form; Transit site redesign a flop; Holy water denied; SF to LA, 32 hours on trains and buses; Mica’s district hates his plan; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: NoVA small cities, MD universities think big
Alexandria flirts with CaBi; Falls Church flirts with density; UMD won’t fight campus Purple Line; LaHood mediates in Silver Line; Struck in Loudoun, crushed in DC; Stop breaking fake ground; MTA clears up photography spat; Population shift necessitates housing shift; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Lots of hot air
Operation Cool Breeze not so cool; You can photograph the Baltimore light rail; Can Stessel unsuck Metro communications?; When jurisdictions vie for federal agencies; Induce and reduce the same thing?; Chinatown bus crashes, killing 4; Longer commute, shorter life; Former officials do the darndest things; And…. Keep reading…
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WMATA can learn from the New York MTA’s tweeting
Early on the morning of May 17, the New York subway experienced a derailment which snarled service in Brooklyn. Instead of trying to cover up the incident, the MTA tweeted about it, including photos of the re-railing: .bbpBox70690254549561344 {background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/127784203/Twitter_NYCTSubwayScoop2010.JPG) #000000;padding:20px;}… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rough on the powerless
Metro Transit Police injure disabled man; Gray for affordable housing but his budget isn’t; Taxi medallions help just a few; American tries to satisfy neighbors; Taking the T out of TOD; Alexandria shrinks Potomac Yard zone; Future BRAC phases loom; Bike bits; It’s not the talk-loudly-for-16-hours car. Keep reading…
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Maryland keeps transitway in King Farm
If the Corridor Cities Transitway is built, it will be built along the King Farm Boulevard alignment that has been planned for decades, despite opposition from a few residents and the Rockville City Council. The King Farm neighborhood of Rockville was designed and built in the 1990s, specifically with the intention that a future Corridor Cities Transitway extending west from… Keep reading…