Posts tagged Twitter
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Breakfast links: Gambling on the water
Las Vegas casino for National Harbor?; Bike and funeral parking lane; Why such acrimony over campuses?; Overestimated enrollment yields windfall; Wheaton vs. Bethesda south entrance; TOD? Really?; Haitian New Urbanism; Yet another streetcar study; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bag fee blockage
PG bag fee loses vote; Don’t live free; Hard to drive 55?; More camera controversies; Bite your tongue; Defaulting Thomas; New plans for NoVa; Unaffordable affordable housing; People want walkable; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: No funding
Trail defunded; No bill this year; Less of a deduction; Smart growth advocate to HPRB; Transit tweets are negative; New MD website lacks open data; Frederick fights sprawl; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Relentless pursuit
6 stores, 1800 jobs, no CBA; Town makes land grab; Get baked or eat fried; DC likely to stay occupied; Bike share ads: Is there really a free lunch?; DC preserves Chinablock/town; Maryland businesses want transportation; Washingtonians are footloose; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bumper weekend
Driver strikes 3 protestors… intentionally?; WMATA wants to break radio silence; Borrowing is the new stealing?; Attend a town hall by hashtag; Gentrification, or more diversity?; DC Democrats become less democratic; RI Ave ped/bike bridge moving forward; And…. Keep reading…
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More than links: New Web tools from DDOT and the Council, Jim Dyke visits Riders’ Council, and a historic conference
DDOT launches permit browser; New Council website coming Friday; Jim Dyke attends RAC meeting; DC history conference starts tonight. Keep reading…
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Enhance the commute with haikus
Yesterday, Marc Tomik (@marctomik) adapted an idea from King County, Washington and the Washington (state) DOT to write haikus about transportation on Twitter. Because Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct is being torn down, @wsdot started a contest to write some “vaikus” about the viaduct. Viaduct Haiku or #vaiku · wsdot · StorifyVaiku format: 5 syllables, 7, 5. Keep reading…
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Blogs and social media change the conversation on transit
Social media played a gradually growing role in Rail~Volution over the past few years. This year, panels explored topics such as blogging and how public agencies use social media. Both David and I sat on a panel discussing the way blogging has changed the conversation. We were joined by Reconnecting America’s Jeff Wood and Curt Ailes from Urban Indy. Blogging has come a… Keep reading…
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Mayor Gray must refute mediocrity, or fall victim to it
Members of Vincent Gray’s administration have been both quoted and sourced on background as being unhappy with a city employee going above and beyond the call of duty on the job. The mayor must explicitly quash such thinking if he doesn’t want to send a signal to all other city employees not to work very hard. Lon Walls, the communications director for DC’s the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Money trouble
More theft at DC tax office; DC cuts, then restores, seniors program; Metro suing insurance provider; Taxi commission is a mess; Tysons could be your new home; Norfolk embraces light rail; Sun shines on transit police; And…. Keep reading…