Posts tagged Wmata Budget
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Breakfast links: Metro ire
Blowing smoke; Blame the brakes; It’s Groundhog Day; Gas prices vs. Metro; Loopholes big as a building; Raining cats and concrete; DeBonis goes to “Washington”; The guerrilla sign maker. Keep reading…
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Death spiral or budget chicken? WMATA floats drastic cuts
Waits for a Metro train could get longer or trains could not run at all after midnight on weekends, if the WMATA Board adopts a budget proposal released yesterday. Fares would also rise by 10¢. Many bus lines could also come less often or stop running earlier, and Metro buses to the airports would stop completely. Is this for real? It’s likely that fares might rise, but… Keep reading…
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Ask GGW: With another fare hike in store, why is Metro still short on cash?
WMATA is hiking fares while still claiming it needs more money. How does the agency’s financial status compare to that of other large US transit agencies? Have member jurisdictions’ contributions to WMATA changed recently? Our contributors do their best to explain some of Metro’s finances in this week’s Ask GGW. Reader Samuel Inman asks: Can… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: State of needed repairs
How to pay for transportation?; Inexplicable Metro woes; Metro cuts in the works?; Keep Red Line on track; No more packing peanuts; Just what we needed; Rail to LaGuardia?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Roadblocks
Shut down I-395?; Protests continue to shut down streets; How to fund Metro; Pop-ups put down; Superheroes against drunk driving; “Forget it, Jake; it’s Chinatown”; Highway revolts in Dallas; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: DC scores a gooooaaaallll?
Soccer stadium a go; New transit authority in MoCo?; Stevens School gets new life; Metro hat in hand; Scrap public land for affordable housing?; Steel City welcomes bikes; Zoning is never about exclusion; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Streetcar obstacles
Farewell for made-in-USA; First M, now K; Evans hits a pedestrian; Park-its still not on Penn; WMATA needs more money; Plenty of parking, even on Black Friday; Va. gas taxes going up; A vertical office park; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Election Day
Vote today!; Free transit on election day; No rail growth; ‘K; Wrong place?; IZ ire; Historic Hill; The case for a height limit; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Growth patterns
Inner-ring suburbs lose residents; Families avoid coastal metros; Can’t always get what you want; Cash crunch at Metro; DC’s Grand Central; It’s too crowded; DC mayoral choices “uninspiring”; Cleaner rivers not clean enough; One stop for homeless help; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Comments welcome
Riders rate Metro; Missing the riders’ voice; Independence from delays; Ellen McCarthy, planning director; Alexandria water taxi route debuts; The Alexandria waterfront, illustrated; Under the crossing; Waste into power; Ryan rejects Amtrak; Peak suburban office park?; And…. Keep reading…