Posts tagged Station Names
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What would you call Loudoun’s Metro stations?
Loudoun County wants your help in picking names for new Metro stations on the Silver Line. Route 606 and Route 772 have been the placeholder names for the two stations west of Dulles Airport, but they’re not going to be the permanent ones. Loudoun wants names that are “relevant, brief, unique, and evocative.” Officials have presented some possibilities. For… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the brink
CMs call for Gray resignation; Keep it simple; Number of cracks grow; Sidewalk or trees; DCU inches toward stadium; Wheaton Costco ban his snag; BRT creep in California; And…. Keep reading…
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Evolution of Metrorail animation, now with Rush Plus
A newer version of this animation is here. Metro is debuting its “Rush Plus” service today. In honor of this, the latest step in Metro’s 34-year growth and evolution, here is an updated version of our popular animation showing the history of Metrorail service. #slideshow .blog_image img { border: none } Your… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Newly vital
Wheaton plan on the move; Dancing in the streets too hard; No bill puts safety at risk; Pedicab arrest gets ugly; Fairfax picks Silver names; Christie raided ARC; Where has walking gone?; And…. Keep reading…
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DDOT buying streetcars, Fairfax naming Silver stations
Oregon will build streetcars for DC; Silver Line station names may get less boring. Keep reading…
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Last chance to weigh in on Silver Line station names
Metro’s online survey about station names for the new Silver Line to Dulles and Reston will be ending on March 21. Have you filled it out? This is your chance to push for station names that create a sense of place and tie in to the region’s history and geography, rather than a boring, long, hyphenated string of road names. Here are my picks, versus the official recommendations… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Share the car
Car2go ready to go; Zipcar interested in P2P; Gray dreams of Redskins practice fields; Purple Line getting worse?; Adequate Public Facilities law not adequate; Silver Line labor laws up in the air; Privacy vs. policing, take 516; Transpo bill moves right; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Just a few miles from the White House
The Presidential City; Share a taxi from baseball; Name the Silver Line stations; Violent crime on the rise; More restaurants in Wards 7 & 8; Now free to open wide; LivingSocial takes a lashing; Keeping seniors in cities; On the Mall…:. Keep reading…
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Help choose station names for new Crystal City transitway
Arlington County is seeking your input in naming stations on the new Crystal City/Potomac Yard (CCPY) Transitway, the first phase of which will provide Bus Rapid Transit service over part of a 5-mile corridor between the Pentagon in Arlington and Braddock Road Metro Station in Alexandria. Arlington County has been moving aggressively with the project and is finalizing the… Keep reading…
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And the new station names are…
This morning, WMATA’s Customer Service and Operations Committee voted on a set of revised station names for several stops. The full WMATA Board voted to approve the recommendations this afternoon. With the service changes to the Blue, Yellow, and Orange lines coming next year, signs have to be replaced anyway. Metro hopes to save time and money by renaming stations at… Keep reading…