Posts tagged Wmata
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Who needs GUTS when you have the D?
Last week, we discussed some Georgetown residents’ opposition to GUTS buses running along Reservoir or Q Streets through the Georgetown neighborhood. They want Georgetown to route the shuttle along a 4.7-mile circuitous route on Foxhall, Canal, the Whitehurst, K, and New Hampshire Avenue instead of the current 1.8-mile, more direct route. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Today in buildings
If you don’t like your historic building, let it fall down?; You say “of its time,” I say “faux modernism”; Making the FBI building work; Good plan, bad design for Walgreens?; Hotel isn’t more important than everything else; Purple Line beats opponents, highways at TPB; And…. Keep reading…
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Bus on-time performance: It matters what you measure
Every month, Metro’s customer service committee looks at a presentation on operating statistics, including a chart showing the latest bus “on-time performance” percentage. That percentage reflects the number of buses that arrive within a certain time before or after the published schedule — usually around 73-75%. However, on its own, this number… Keep reading…
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Morning links: Back and greater than ever
I’m back; “Overgrown office park” to real city; More sidewalks coming, especially in River East; I-270 corridor residents want transit; Mixed-income areas boost civic participation; Arlington gets greener, transit opponents claim to be; Across the nation; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast Links: Narrowing, tunnelling, and bulldozing streets
Suburbs going multi-modal: Fresh off the heels of Virginia’s cul-de-sac ban, VDOT plans to convert two lanes of Reston’s Lawyers Road into two bike lanes, plus a center turn lane. The Reston Association has also recommended reducing the speed limit from 45 to 35 miles per hour. For context, as recently as 1967, Lawyers Road was a one-lane dirt path. (Restonian,… Keep reading…
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Another transit app: UniBus for iPhone/iPod
After Metro released schedule and route information in GTFS format, I’ve been looking for a good schedule and route finding app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. There are two applications I found that fit the bill, iTransitBuddy (reviewed earlier) and UniBus. If you know of a great iPhone/iPod app that uses GTFS data and meets my needs, please let me know in the comments and I’ll… Keep reading…
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16? 2? 53A? &%@**#!!
In Arlington (and many places) streets are numbered, which can be pretty useful: 10th St. is between 9th and 11th, which can be a huge help to those trying to find an address. In Arlington, the buses are also numbered: 41, 51, 52, 53 (A?), 61, 62, 67, 74, 75, 82. But what do these numbers mean? Unlike the streets, a rider can’t use the numbers to help… Keep reading…
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Breakfast Links: Fe Fi Fo Fum
Cleveland Park Giant approved: The DC Zoning Commission has approved the long-proposed Giant redevelopment in Cleveland Park. The vote was unanimous, over the objections of the Cleveland Park Citizens Association. (Jaime, DCist) Keep reading…
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Arlington’s Smart Growth Journey: Metro
If Arlington had built the Orange Line stations in the median of I-66, as Fairfax did, the county today would look very different. Leaders had to push very hard for closely-spaced stations on the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor. At the end, Jay Ricks talks about funding becoming available for Virginia Square because Georgetown rejected a station. However, we learned from Zachary… Keep reading…
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iPhone app review: iTransitBuddy
After Metro released its schedule data in Google Transit Feed Specification format, I wanted an iPod/iPhone app that would let me find out quickly how long it would be until the next bus or train. There are a lot of transit apps out there, but not many have bus data or offline caching mode. I downloaded two apps, iTransitBuddy and UniBus (subject of a future review this week). Keep reading…