Posts tagged Service Cuts
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Breakfast links: Rosslyn gets a better bike lane
Protected lane in Rosslyn; Bowser wants answers from Metro; Just kidding! on service cuts?; HPAP hiccups; Residential joins the BID; 2040 and no new Metro; Bike trail =/= road; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It’s Metro, just without the Metro
Metro considering huge closures; Bring back BRT; Criminal justice changing in DC; September house hunting; Seed money; Closing the 7000 gap; Clueless about race and cities; Is the Mall broke?; Transit truths; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Welcome to fabulous Prince George’s
MGM’s big moment; Strike out on late-night service; A new paratransit model?; Bad traffic in SafeTrack; Development halted; DC has small houses; Inspectors shall not pass; Self-driving cars vs. transit; Better biking laws. 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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Metro is proposing the most limited hours of any large rail transit system in the US
At Thursday’s WMATA board meeting, Metro leaders proposed making SafeTrack’s cuts to late-night service permanent as well as deepening them even further, offering several proposals that would only have the system be open 127 hours per week. These proposals would turn a system that already had some of the most limited opening hours in the US into the least-available… Keep reading…
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Metro is pushing ahead to cut late-night service with three unsatisfying options
We first heard about Metro’s hope to permanently cut late-night service in July. Now, Metro has released three specific scenarios to cut late night service, but it offers still few specifics on why it’s necessary or what alternatives there can be. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: From traffic to transit
Purple proposals are in; DC traffic fines climb; Multimodal demands on 395; Putting up money for murals; Prince William transit woes; Holy affordable housing; No school left behind; Bridging VA to MD; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro is listening
Metro seeking input; Fewer trains, steady ridership; Tax break incentives; Layoffs at LivingSocial; Falling wages; Not homeless anymore; Carpooling the Uber way; Gallaudet redevelopment advances; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Popping up
Ineffective rules; The rest is history; What access?; Montgomery steps up; Metro cuts will wait; Simple solutions; Remaking suburbs; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where’s the money?
Two counties, one goal; How to save a bus; Educational building blocks; Looking for options, seeing red; Doubling down on dirt bikes; That’s fine; Statehood support; Bike lanes in a strange land. Keep reading…