Posts tagged Thebus
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Breakfast links: Northern exposure
Snow approaches; Uncertainty for CaBi vendor; The Holocaust and Purple Line; Can San Francisco be affordable?; A busier DCA; Bowser says no to 16th St. bus lane; Car-free in Greenbelt?; Less federal office space in DC; And…; And more…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New York analogues
Rediscover Columbus Circle; Settle down about bikeshare, NYC; Adams Morgan = West Village?; KIPP will have to wait for Randall; Board sanctions Orange; Take a look; Is your commute an idyll?; Flood-control parkway; And…. Keep reading…
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WMATA might offer open data for all regional transit
WMATA planners helped STLTransit create an animation of transit across the entire Washington region. That’s possible because WMATA has a single data file with all regional agencies’ schedules. They hope to make that file public; that would fuel even more tools that aid the entire region. Keep reading…
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What’s up with NextBus, part 2: A pile of APIs
Why do some apps for getting bus predictions work with some DC-area bus services, like WMATA and the Circulator, but not others, like ART and Ride On? Why couldn’t the NextBus DC app just use the same data source that other apps do? Why is this all so complicated? The answer lies in APIs—application programming interfaces— and fragmentation. Previously, we… Keep reading…
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New staggered bus schedules help Greenbelt riders
Prince George’s County has fixed its schedules so that TheBus and Metrobuses traveling to the same places in Greenbelt stagger their departure times, helping riders make the most of the service that’s available. In December, I wrote about the scheduling of Greenbelt’s revised bus service. Greenbelt is now served primarily by 3 bus routes: Metrobus G12,… Keep reading…
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Weekend video: Buses and bike racks
Clarence Eckerson and the team over at Streetfilms have put together a great video about buses and bike racks. The film even includes an interview with WMATA’s own Nat Bottigheimer, Assistant General Manager for Planning and Joint Development. Keep reading…
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WMATA, TheBus fail to coordinate Greenbelt bus schedules
On Monday, WMATA and TheBus revised virtually every route serving the Greenbelt area. Some of the changes are positive. But instead of staggering departure times, multiple buses will leave almost at once and create unnecessarily long waits in between. Old Greenbelt and Greenbelt East are now primarily served by 3 bus routes. Metrobus operates 2 of the routes, the G12 and the… Keep reading…
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Prince George’s plans revised bus service in Greenbelt
The Prince George’s County Department of Public Works and Transportation is planning changes to TheBus service on all 4 routes operating out of Greenbelt Station. Prince George’s wants to better allocate resources to run buses at higher frequency. But several Berwyn Heights officials are upset about the plan, because they think residents don’t want —… Keep reading…