Posts tagged Road Safety
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Breakfast links: The battle for late night service
Are buses enough?; SunTrust saga continues; Uproar over engine roars; River Road improvements; Another sit-down for Anacostia; Emergency evaluations; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Less money, more problems
Poverty rising in the east; Service cut snapshots; DC workers left behind; Circulator buses safer; Arlington acts on Airbnb; Keeping housing affordable; SelectPass success; Teen riders speak; Derailment in Hoboken; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The hunt for affordable housing solutions
Streetcar daily and more frequent; White is the new Orange; When the train stops talking; Poverty grows in DC; Keep that suburban vibe?; Pricey fix for Potomac sewage; Homeless camps kicked out; September surge; DC history on display; And…; $100M for affordable housing; The affordability struggle is real; Old condo problems; What’s in a neighborhood’s name?; Fewer red-light fatalities; NIH will still call Bethesda home; Changes for Confederate symbols; MoCo’s liquor showdown. Keep reading…
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Red light cameras work. The Washington Post runs the same old attack on them anyway.
Red light cameras work, but articles saying they don’t, based on more innuendo than fact, pop up in the press regularly. The latest example is from Washington Post “Tripping” blogger Frederick Kunkle. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rollback on Walmart
Walmart, not a Prince George’s savior; Preserve Emerald Street?; Turf wars in Alexandria; WMATA’s labor problem; FCC says keep the WiFi; Beach Drive takes a vacation; Housing insecure, still; And…. Keep reading…
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National links: We’ll pay you to avoid rush hour
BART, San Francisco’s major transit system, wants to reward riders for avoiding rush hour, drivers have run into a house in Raleigh 6 times in 9 years and the owners can’t sell, and an engineer in Oslo has turned kids into “secret agents” in a bid to report street hazards. Check out what’s going on in the world of housing, transportation, and cities around… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Walkability close to work is worth a lot
Walk Score is money; What a shorter commute is worth; More suburban poverty; No Metro for marathon or Bruce; Test scores up, but still low; Will this road be safer?; More cyclists die nationally; Manassas trailer park evicted; Way more ride hailing; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Step back, doors closing (early)
Goodnight, Metro; More bus bays coming; SafeTrack chief speaks; Sunny days ahead; Slowing traffic slowly; If you build it, will they come?; Children can’t play; Contentious cranium; Term limits?; Brake for Bigfoot. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Headlines, bread-lines blow my mind
Rent is outpacing income; Rent is lower than SF, NY; “Sue the suburbs” gets a win; New wmata.com; “Privatize” Metro?; Bidding for paratransit; Car2go, the car killer; Meals on wheels; Automation and safety. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bus lanes in Virginia
Bus bridge blues; BRT for Route 7; MoCo’s commitment to senior housing; Pool party pushback; SafeTrack safe tally; Military needs transit too; Speed kills; Free CaBi this weekend; Gentrification comes to Denver. Keep reading…