Posts tagged Usdot
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Breakfast links: Look out for drivers
Look both ways; DC and Maryland drivers worst?; Parking under the Mall?; Trail connected to bridge; Trash bin case dumped; Managing Tysons transportation; Highway Trust Fund dwindles; And…. Keep reading…
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Why is the Highway Trust Fund going broke (and what can be done about it)?
You may have been hearing some doomsday reports in the media about the impending bankruptcy of the Highway Trust Fund. The US Department of Transportation has a ticker where you can watch the balance drop. What is happening, and why? What is the Highway Trust Fund? The Highway Trust Fund (HTF) is basically a bank account that was established by Congress in 1956 to pay for the… Keep reading…
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Will Cantor’s loss push congressional Republicans to balk on transportation compromise?
Last night, US House majority leader Eric Cantor lost the Republican primary to a tea party challenger who painted Cantor as too willing to compromise with Democrats. Cantor’s loss makes this summer’s looming congressional fight over transportation funding all the more unpredictable. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Room on the sidewalk
Sidewalk cafes pay more?; Gardens sprout downtown; What’s new in new Metro cars; Some motion on 16th Street?; Federal St. E’s faces more hurdles; Money means restaurants; Slow down in Paris; Unlivable highways foil livable communities; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More travel
More lanes around Dulles?; 24 hour bus service, anyone?; Let cities decide on transportation; Assaults rise on area trails; How Clinton helped save DC; Markets, movies for Courthouse Square; Can the Garden City be the future again?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Disrepair
Crumbling roads, but new capacity; Speaking of crumbling roads…; How long for Metro repair?; Height Act bill moves forward; Rosslyn, where the Internet began; DC’s great divide; Underground sex industry declines; Taxi share; Free ride, no deadlines. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Good neighbors, good fences
Fence offense; Skyland is coming; Moving toward autonomy; Arlington retail in good shape; Bikeshare is good for business; Bottoms up; Marijuana stumps DCHA; How much house is enough?; Photo enforcement, parking edition; Discouraging driving; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Questions answered
Q&A with Sarles; New deal for CaBi operator; Fraudulent parking; New look for cities in movies; Big plans for London housing; How our Venice succumbed to the car; New tech to prevent vehicle deaths; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where’s the money?
Silver Line Audit; $1.1 trillion winners and losers; Riverfront retail bubble?; Penn Daw gets green light; Our invisible aging infrastructure; Parking wars, teacher safety edition; Picking up your pothole tab; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Polar vortex
Brace yourself; Arrest cyclists in winter?; Bike signals get green light; Reduce DC property taxes?; Have problems dispersed or just people; Do mixed income communities work?; Crazy elections coming; Charlotte to DC high-speed rail; A wider I-66?; And…. Keep reading…