Posts tagged Wmata
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Breakfast links: Hot trains, hot tempers
HSR looks better when you consider real projects; The bike lane made me commit assault; Bye bye boarders; It’s hot in there; Park the festival; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: States like it, commentators don’t
High-speed, Baltimore to Richmond, bit by bit; From bad to worse quality commentary; Loudoun mega-sprawl plan on foreclosure block; Sign them up; Who needs Central Park?; More from Maryland; As least we have SmarTrip. Keep reading…
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Metro motifs, part 1: Underground stations
Hundreds of thousands daily pass through the hallowed halls that are our Metro. The public spaces of our city’s subway platforms are unique in the world, and are associated with Washington wherever one goes. Metro’s stations are the public spaces that link the rest of the region together. Here, similarity of design means that places as far flung as Alexandria and… Keep reading…
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Google: We don’t pay MTA for data
After last week’s article about Google’s contract Google with New York’s and Chicago’s transit agencies, Google got back to me by email. I’d contacted them before running the article, but their spokesperson was on vacation. After checking with their business development manager and MTA, Google’s Elaine Filadelfo confirmed for the record… Keep reading…
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Pocket schedules could make bus riding easier
Many bus riders take a single bus for most trips. In fact, many bus riders travel between the same two stops for many trips. A simple, printed, point to point schedule, listing the departure and arrival times for each of the two stops, could be a powerful tool for those riders. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Economic solutions, bureaucratic problems
Sluggers not hot on HOT; Yes, pricing existing lanes would be better; Get paid to move closer to work?; Washington Gas renegs on Capital City Diner; New private roads still create “silos”; Too much work to listen?; Now vs. then’s view of now. Keep reading…
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Google paid for NYC data (or not); Chicago removed indemnification
New York’s MTA, a much larger agency than WMATA, apparently was able to negotiate some kind of payment from Google in exchange for providing its transit data for Google Transit Keep reading…
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New York MTA threatens blogger, asserts copyright over schedule
The New York Metropolitan Transit Authority’s lawyers are going after a local blogger, and attempting to block an iPhone application showing Metro-North railroad schedules. The blog StationStops writes about Metro-North Commuter Railroad service north of New York City, and often criticizes its operations. Its creator, Chris Schoenfeld, also created an iPhone application… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Crack the cycle
Metro mishaps; Researchers work on more accurate predictions; Pro-transit 270 letter making the rounds; Fruit is okay?; Stop the rage; The Franklin not-school; The Senate on infrastructure. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Getting more
Talk and text in Metro stations; Raise our TOD standards; Why don’t more people bike?; Lock ‘em up or build ‘em lanes; Inflating more than the tires; Inclusionary zoning vs just more housing; Parking rules too tough to enforce? Just try anarchy. Keep reading…