Posts about Roads
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Breakfast links: Gray weather
Gray goes for 7; Snow woes, still; Affordable housing for Westbard; SmarTrip here to stay; Less summer, more school; Holy ground for sale; A public place for pot?; Thinking outside the white lines. Keep reading…
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Montgomery County says it can’t build BRT, but there’s money for new roads
Earlier this month, Montgomery County leaders released plans to fund transportation over the next two years. There’s $300 million for building new roads, but not enough money to keep BRT moving forward or to increase current bus service. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: For a safer system
Metro’s crime spike; No new fares; Unnecessary shutdown; Blizzard’s hefty price tag; Where’s our interchange?; New afforable housing projects; Picking Purple Line builders; Marriott’s decision deadline; No ballot initiative; Memorial sneak peek. Keep reading…
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Reston wants urban street grids around future Metro stations
Fairfax County wants to make it easier to walk, bike, and drive in Reston, especially to current and planned Silver Line stations. A new street grid and three ways to cross the Dulles Toll Road are part of the plan to make that happen. Keep reading…
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For I-66, outside-the-beltway lawmakers say “toss the facts, widen baby widen”
A group of Virginia state legislators from outside the beltway are urging Governor McAuliffe to widen I-66 inside the beltway, rather than go forward with VDOT’s transit and tolls proposal. But years of data say the multimodal proposal would be more effective. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fines and transit fights
Back on track, sort of; Railroad is public; Giant fines for snow fouls; Snowblind technology; The Snojo Nnamdi Show; Crime is crime; Maglev madness; DC’s streetcar past; Bike to bicycle kicks; FHWA fickle on fonts. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Priorities
Creeping back to normal; New Olympic sport; See something, shovel something; Bikes are not a priority; To the skies; The sharing economy digs out; Where does all the snow go?; Where’s the beef?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Time to dig out
Snow’s aftermath; How much snow? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯; At least the power’s on; Uber through the storm; Storm’s financial toll; Build affordable or pay up; I-66 debates; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Snow daze
Winter is coming; Transit shutting down; Bowser will stomp this snow; How 1 inch of snow was so bad; Paid leave in limbo; I-66 HOT mess; Alexandria’s transportation funding; New building at UDC. Keep reading…
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“Bulb-outs” could make crossing the street safer at key trouble spots
People on foot could get a little more space at the corners of 14th and U NW, Benning Road and Minnesota Avenue NE, and M and Wisconsin in Georgetown. Those are a few of the concepts in a new analysis of how to make DC’s most dangerous intersections safer. Keep reading…