Posts about Technology
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Next American City features transit maps, DC bloggers
Greater Greater Washington, BeyondDC, Track Twenty-Nine and other Washington area blogs appear in the latest issue of Next American City not once but twice. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Figaro qua, Figaro là
Bikes at Shady Grove: Metro is “considering [whether] to allow Montgomery County to build [a] bike path to [the] Shady Grove” Metro station. Metro acknowledges it can’t always afford all desired improvements itself, but is it really questioning whether to allow the County to construct a bike facility using its own dollars? (Examiner)… Keep reading…
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Metro “punts”: Will release transit schedule data for Google and others
Metro listened to the riders. Yesterday at the DC Council oversight hearing for WMATA, General Manager John Catoe announced that Metro will release schedule and routing information in the open Google Transit Feed Specification format. They will post the information online for all to access March 23, according to Catoe: Keep reading…
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No bloody slashes, dashes or unnecessary acronyms
According to Zachary Schrag’s famous book about Metro history, The Great Society Subway, the planners originally in charge of naming stations were told to keep it simple. In fact, says Schrag, the rule of thumb at the time was for no stations to be longer than two words. Keep reading…
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Catoe: NextBus beta “doesn’t make sense for Metro”
Metro General Manager John Catoe opened his chat today with a statement rejecting the option of opening up a NextBus beta test before the official launch: Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Protect yourself
Live chat at 1: Our first of what will hopefully become a series of live chats is today at 1 pm. This time, it will feature Greater Greater Washington contributors. Bring your questions! Keep reading…
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Dinner links: bikes, brothels and bloggers
Bike lane blockers: In this comic strip, we see what happens when our hero runs across a car parked in the bicycle lane. No, no cars get keyed. (Tip: Steven) Keep reading…
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WMATA removes NextBus public test
by Joey Katzen and David Alpert Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How we do things in America
More bars on the Metro: By 2012, customers of all four existing mobile networks will be able to use their phones in Metro tunnels. The new network will also provide Wi-Fi access. (Post) Keep reading…
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The Metro Express
Today is the one-year anniversary of Greater Greater Washington’s first transit fantasy maps. One year ago today, I assembled some pie-in-the-sky Metrorail expansion proposals by M.V. Jantzen and Richard Layman into a fantasy map and then another. The links I got from this and subsequent maps was the first big boost to this nascent blog’s readership. In honor of that,… Keep reading…