Posts about Maryland
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Maryland on priority corridors: Great! Montgomery: Nah!
The Maryland State Highway Administration responded with positive and encouraging language to the WMATA Riders’ Advisory Council’s recent letter encouraging jurisdictions to work with WMATA on bus priority corridors. Montgomery County, meanwhile, sent a dismissive response to a similar letter from the Action Committee for Transit. State Highway Administrator… Keep reading…
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Metro beats BART with suburban transit-oriented jobs
Planners from San Francisco’s SPUR recently visited Greater Washington to find out how Metrorail compares to BART. They found that our strong transit-oriented development at suburban stations has led to greater transit use and higher farebox recovery rates. According to their article, the two cities’ systems, while built at similar times with similar technology,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: WMATA and Richmond
Gunn to look at Metro; Snow buries budget; Arlington musters more for Metro; Bike-hating legislators; Driver assaults good Samaritan; Carpooling only for civilians?; Balancing budget on the backs of bikes; Drive exactly 55!. Keep reading…
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TIGER funds bus corridors, not K Street or bike sharing
The Washington region will receive $58.8 million for bus priority improvements across the region, but no money for the K Street Transitway or regional bicycle sharing in the TIGER grants. USDOT announced the winners today. Through regional planning organization MWCOG, local governments had applied for $204 million in bus improvements, $13 million for regional bike sharing,… Keep reading…
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Optimizing trunk bus lines could improve service
Metrobus riders, especially those in the suburbs, often face long wait times between buses. With WMATA’s budget crisis, it is extremely unlikely they can add more bus service. However, there are ways WMATA could dramatically improve service at little to no cost. Other cities, starting with Portland’s Tri-Met, have had great success with their bus networks by… Keep reading…
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Party time in Silver Spring
Greater Greater Washington’s second anniversary is just a few hours away! Head over to the upstairs bar at McGinty’s, 911 Ellsworth Drive in Silver Spring, from 6:30-9:30 to meet fellow readers, commenters and contributors. Keep reading…
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ACT creates Montgomery County transit vision
Last July, Montgomery County’s Action Committee for Transit worked with Greater Greater Washington to produce a transit vision for the I-270 corridor. Rather than spending billions of dollars on widening I-270 as the State of Maryland proposes, ACT argued that it would be better and more affordable to invest in a vigorous integrated transit network. That was all well… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Light rail reading
Books on the wind; Fair and purple; Mote out of our eyes; People walk? News to 9 News; Stuck on the train; Freeway pollution is bad; Bike bites. Keep reading…
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High rents, prohibitive zoning doom Wheaton’s Dejabel Cafe
In late 2008, a new coffee shop, Dejabel Cafe, opened in Wheaton. It enhanced Wheaton’s sense of place and also provided me with a favorite coffee shop. Sadly, Dejabel Cafe just closed its doors for good. While I wish proprietor Eddie Velasquez the best and will miss him and his coffee, the bigger question is, “What went wrong?” Without knowing… Keep reading…
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Brunch links: Silly governments and parking
Bad economy means parking lot; Not what we mean by maximums; Smarter parker; Metro needs fixing, still safest; OK, we preserved enough?; “Tarnished my respect for the police a bit”; The Martians of PG don’t mind. Keep reading…