Posts tagged Traffic
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Breakfast links: Barbaras behaving badly, and other Capitol drama
Bond(age) and Crap(o): Senator Christopher Bond (R-MO) plans to introduce two more amendments to strip transit funding from the stimulus and give it to highways. One would eliminate the high-speed rail corridor program entirely. The other, cosponsored by Senators Boxer (yes, Boxer again), Baucus, Cochran, Voinovich, Bayh, Brownback and Crapo, would cut all the money in the “supplementary… Keep reading…
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Over four times the people and no traffic
On a typical weekday, 400,000 commuters enter downtown DC. On Tuesday, 1.8 million people did. Yet there’s heavy traffic every rush hour in and out of DC, just to move a small fraction of the people we moved on Tuesday. Keep reading…
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Let’s declare war on calling transportation arguments “war”
Maryland Politics Watch has a roundup of the Purple Line debate with the inflammatory headline “MTA Declares War on Chevy Chase.” In the lede, MPW’s Adam Pagnucco calls the DEIS “a Declaration of War on rail opponents in the Town of Chevy Chase.” Keep reading…
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Morning links: watch out for the future
Danger: falling budgets: Metro is just the latest transit agency nationwide to warn of a looming budget crisis. Metro staff proposed $176 million in cuts, of which $103 million would come from staff and expenses and $73 million in service cuts. The board promised not to raise fares until 2010, though they could change their minds. No word yet on which cuts will happen. Keep reading…
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Indian Head’s bottleneck
Wedged between Southern Avenue, the Beltway, Oxon Hill Farm, and Glassmanor Park is the quiet suburb of Forest Heights, a small municipality of about 2,500 on DC’s southernmost border with Prince George’s County. Isolated from other county municipalities, Forest Heights is otherwise what one might expect to find in Prince George’s County: a predominantly… Keep reading…
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What does a highway guy think about priority bus corridors?
WMATA believes that the future of Greater Washington’s transportation rests on priority bus corridors throughout the region, like the MetroExtra (#79) bus from Silver Spring to downtown DC. With Metrorail running out of capacity by 2030 and serious core expansion costing billions, Metro sees rapid buses as the best chance for a real capacity boost. Keep reading…
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This alternative is technically impossible because neighbors would complain
Do transportation consulting companies really provide unbiased analysis, or do they simply conclude whatever their paying client wants to hear? Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: taxes, fees, and the effect of bad planning
Gas tax comeback? Congressman-elect Gerry Connolly (D-Fairfax) suggested raising the gax tax to close huge budget gaps. With Mary Peters and her seemingly-irrational opposition to the gax tax in all forms on the way out, gas prices low, and budget deficits high, this makes some sense. (WTOP) Keep reading…
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Streetcars reduce congestion
1920s streetcar ad, Cincinnati: Keep reading…
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Are you ready for some Metro?
Please welcome Dave Murphy, GGW’s newest contributor, who also writes the Imagine, DC blog. Dave lives in Laurel and will be bringing us insight on urbanism from the regions northeast of DC (and anywhere else he has something to say). Keep reading…