Posts tagged Wmata Governance
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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: I think I can
Rush-hour relief; Almost, streetcar; Delayed for a reason; Change for the board; Struck DC; Near Union Station; CaBi unionized; Cemetery springs to life; Violence hits home; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A new path for WMATA
Sayonara; Changing course; Time to say goodbye?; Help needed; Taking the leap?; Experimenting; Planning for tomorrow; A new challenge; And…; Thank you. Keep reading…
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With Metro, “on time” doesn’t mean what you think it means
There’s a lot of wiggle room in how WMATA reports Metro’s on-time performance. We need something more accurate. Periodically, Metro reports its on-time performance to both the public and the WMATA board. In 2014, more than 90% of Metrorail trains were “on time.” But Metro doesn’t arrive at those numbers in a way that makes sense for passengers,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Happy birthday Metro
In with the new; Arch Madness; Fear and loathing; Feed the rush; Move that bus!; Tune in for transit; Beefed up bikeshare; Partisan parking. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New laws
DC Council resumes work; How Downtown DC came to be; Let riders’ voices be heard; Customer value should drive Metrorail; Bike lanes don’t hurt retailers; A restart of sprawl?; Trees illegal in Georgia?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The road ahead
Transportation policy running on empty; Should DC get its own park rules?; Do riders win or lose with Dyke?; PG seeks more speed cameras; What to do about Bethesda’s escalators?; Preservation parcels; Suggest your own CaBi locations; And…. Keep reading…
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Bowser, Bulger get WMATA Board, Wells gets planning
The WMATA Board, which has already had most members change in the last year, will see even more turnover as Kwame Brown plans to strip Tommy Wells of his seat along with the transportation committee today. Muriel Bowser would instead represent the DC Council as a voting member, Freeman Klopott reported. Bowser currently chairs the regional Transportation Planning Board. Kwame… Keep reading…
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Breaking: Kwame Brown stripping transportation committee from Tommy Wells as retribution for SUV scandal
DC Council chairman Kwame Brown plans to remove Tommy Wells from his chairmanship of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation today. This appears to be naked political payback from February, when Wells published a report on the Lincoln Navigator scandal. Email the Council or call Brown’s office at (202) 724-8032 to express your disappointment that personal… Keep reading…
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GAO says clarify WMATA board role, don’t restructure
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its long-awaited report on WMATA governance this morning. The report concludes that the board lacks clarity about where its role begins and ends, but rejects some of the drastic structural changes that have been proposed, instead arguing the board can and should fix problems itself. An ambiguous definition of the board’s… Keep reading…