Posts tagged Pepco
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Breakfast links: People want a city, are getting a city
It’s development utopia again; People really want more restaurants; Recession worse for suburbs; Retail begins in Metro stations; Georgetown students deserve 2 ANC seats; Bethesda gets pay-by-phone; Another lousy parking “privatization”; Bike lanes make crazy writers really crazy; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Show us the money
DC suing travel companies; NPS spending big on roads; Getting serious collecting debt; Walmart will anchor Tysons West; New Woodbridge slug lot mostly empty; Some agencies still headless; Thomas’s campaign gets scrutiny; A very green way to get fuel; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Virginia all-in for roads
VA senate passes McDonnell’s roads plan; Wider roads top priority in new report; More “design by fire truck”; DoD should be chipping in for transportation; Evans unfazed by Snyder lawsuit; Development team selected for New Carrollton; Pepco frustration continues, MoCo eyes other options; More research says cities safer than suburbs for kids; Remembering freedom bus rides; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Make ‘em pay
Should Montgomery pay for the Purple Line?; Hugo succeeds in hurting his neighbors; Sarles won’t end bag searches; Utility companies under fire; MoCo commission calls for major reforms; Arlington debuts new bike map; DC area sites get preservation grants; Pizza everywhere, almost; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Finding flaws
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Breakfast links: Suggestions paying off
Metro going express around single tracking; New building skirts parking requirements; Carpooling is in decline; VA legislator wants no more red light cameras; Pepco continues to disappoint; Clean snow off your car!; Road salt turns into river salt; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How’s my performance?
Arlington follows some performance parking; Maryland public schools tops in US; Pepco will now monitor own network; Metro puts theft warnings posters in stations; L’Enfant not so dangerous, Chinatown tops list; Talking transportation in Fairfax; Frederick gets money for trail extension; And…. Keep reading…
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Use a market mechanism to push Pepco reliability
If Pepco were required to reimburse customers for electricity outages, it could push Pepco to improve reliability faster and more effectively than regulatory tools. The Washington Post ran a long investigative article last Sunday about Pepco. It took Pepco to task for its lousy reliability and exposed its weak excuses (and lies?) about its reliability problems. Pepco ranks… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Openings and closings
WMATA opens bus data; DCPS closures and an opening in the works; CaBi won’t close for winter; Discovery to alter site plan; Pepco to cut your trees; Fairfax creating bike plans for Tysons, county; NOVa police to learn defensive driving; USDOT shuffles HSR money; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Raising eyebrows, expectations and rates
New PG officials take office; Loudoun getting a bit more bikeable, walkable; Pepco will raise rates; Tax the food trucks; DCPS creates dashboard; Give DC control over its budget; Listen to the track signals; DC development developments; And…. Keep reading…