Posts tagged Wmata Budget
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Breakfast links: Snow daze
Winter is coming; Transit shutting down; Bowser will stomp this snow; How 1 inch of snow was so bad; Paid leave in limbo; I-66 HOT mess; Alexandria’s transportation funding; New building at UDC. Keep reading…
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Congress gives Metro riders an early Christmas present
If you’re a federal government worker, you’ll soon get up to $255 a month to pay for transit under a tax bill Congress agreed on last night. Or, if your employer allows setting aside pre-tax earnings for transit, you will also be able to reserve more. This will translate into badly needed fare revenue for Metro — perhaps as much as $15 million a year. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What took so long?
Federal funding, finally; The customer comes first; Shifting demographics in DC; Bus lane support; Locked up in Lorton; Purple line property rights; Seriously, no parking. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro money
Metro budget bliss; Peace out, paper fare cards; Out of gas; Paid leave pushback; Metro as a PPP; Toll foes; Sweet community; TOD without the T?; Bad design is deadly. Keep reading…
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Bad Metro reliability is driving riders away. WMATA has a few ideas to get them back.
The long season of debate about WMATA budgets, fares, and service has begun, and like too many years in the last decade, the agency faces a budget crunch. Today, the agency released its first budget proposal which includes some proposals that will interest riders. The agency is now agreeing with something riders have been saying for some time: Poor maintenance and other bad customer… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Take me to your leader
A new GM, again; Stadium-Armory progress; Here comes the highway bill; Future DC is all TOD; It’s all about the beer; Unemployement inequality; A morbid map. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Take the wheel
At last, leadership?; Mission: fix Metro; False start; The feds are here; Home is where the Wizards are; Plans for stadium roll along; Change of dinner plans; Get em’ college ready; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Church vs. bike lanes
All bikeways lead to…; No First Amendment violation; The place you call home; Buses for Baltimore; Metro board veto; Can you hear me in five years?; Arlington’s best buses; Flippin’ home sales; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Time circuits on
Not thinking fare-dimensionally; Boy mom, you sure can hydrate a WMATA; That’s like a baby’s toy; I-66 flux capacitor; Hoverboards don’t work on water; Mayor, I (don’t) like the sound of that; I’m your density. I mean your destiny; Damn! The skyway is jammed; Where we’re going we don’t need roads; Great Scott!. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Who bears the burden?
The wheels on the bus go … somewhere else; Too much trash; It’s not a slam dunk; Back in the old days; Helping the homeless; High-speed step; Parking is never free; Streetcar deja vu. Keep reading…