Posts tagged Smartrip
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Breakfast links: What you think about Metro
Metro gets good marks…; … but not from Hiatt; More Metro morsels; Survey also says; Bike bits; Transit-oriented Wegmans at Tysons?; Howard tax break dead?; Would living wage scare off Walmart?; Borderstan no more; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It is the east
Not relaxed about new restaurant; Retailers look eastward; Anacostia needs arts and more; No place to wait; Metro morsels; Potomac Yard Metro delayed some more; Hirshhorn stays donut, won’t get bubble; More homes for sale; And…. Keep reading…
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WMATA launches “Short Trip” rail pass on SmarTrip
Starting Monday, Metrorail riders can purchase a “short trip” pass online or at a fare machine and apply it to their SmarTrip cards. It’s a big improvement for Metro customers that commute regularly and use Metro on the weekends or for additional trips in the evenings. The pass costs $35 and is good for one week. It covers all off-peak trips and the first $3.50… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What WMATA is up to
Metro backs out of transit center; WMATA budget was easy; A patriotic SmarTrip; The rich parts of the Metro; Out of staters take local spaces; Market rate or a market?; Less intrusive government, only if you behave; TIGER roars; And…. Keep reading…
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Metro fare signs confuse the riders who need help most
Nearly every Metro fare machine has a paper sign on it: “Using a paper farecard? Add $1 to every trip.” Yet even with this reminder, some riders get stuck at the faregates, wondering why Metro won’t let them leave. Keep reading…
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Rider’s SmarTrip money temporarily vanishes
A Metro rider, Barbara, wrote in to Unsuck DC Metro about a problem where she added funds to SmarTrip online but then still couldn’t go through a faregate. What’s going on is one of the unfortunate consequences of the 1990s-era faregate systems WMATA is still using. I had added funds online on March 4. I didn’t use my card before March 18, and when I did, I had to… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stay safe
Dangerous intersections; Bad scheduling kills door bill; Communication breakdown; Don’t play favorites; A very particular set of skills; Don’t dis Anacostia; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pray
Tax break for empty church land?; Washington’s boom, poorly explained; Tysons gets buses; More condos are bad, say condo owners; Suburban officials criticize DC; Tide turning on driver responsibility?; Metrohenge Dupont is today; Amtrak eyes new bridge and tunnel; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Get Smart
More ways to get a SmarTrip; City Dems, rural GOP?; Long poll lines need fixing; Transit agencies announce inauguration service; Get to Georgetown easier; Outreach breeds support; A second term how to; Where’d everyone go?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving you better
Group forms for Purple Line; Metro escalators keep moving; Fee pushes riders to SmarTrip; WMATA announces Inauguration Day service; GOP win bad for DC real estate? No; DC school population grows; DC shares surplus with charter schools; Why Parkmobile hates Dodd-Frank; And…. Keep reading…