Posts about Transit
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Breakfast links: Fight for your rights in the states
Vienna sides with pedestrians; 3 feet today in VA; Maryland’s bills; What Metro needs; How to fight the state DOT; Design the next Golden Triangle bike rack; Not so sure on Wheaton Costco; Who’d win in a fight, Montgomery or Fairfax?. Keep reading…
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Advocates say fares, jurisdictional contributions both too low
Tonight at 5:30 pm is the budget hearing at WMATA HQ, 600 5th St NW. Please sign up to speak if you can attend, or submit written comments, at public-hearing-testimony@wmata.com. Transit First! issued a statement opposing the service cuts in Option 1 and recommending a mix of fare increases and preventative maintenance to close the FY2010 budget gap. MetroRiders.Org and… Keep reading…
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Where’s Google Transit? January 2010 edition
Several people have emailed recently to ask what’s going on with Google Transit and WMATA. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More questions than answers
Should our Metro advertise?; “Human error,” but whose?; What would Jefferson say?; More walkability or the end of the world?; Is Fairfax really chicken or just a little bit?; Should MLK Ave get a Circulator?; The biggest subway ever. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transportation deaths in Montgomery
In Rockville, on the rails; In Wheaton, on the roads; VA bike legislation moving forward; Archives banning photography; WSJ pounces on small bag fee confusion; Dulles AeroTrain opens; Union Station more intermodal now with buses. Keep reading…
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Support option 4 on Wednesday
There are two days left until the WMATA FY2010 budget hearing on Wednesday evening. Sign up to testify! Metro has presented four options, though you can recommend combinations of the options. It’s not possible, however, to recommend any fare increase greater than those proposed, because DC’s Board members blocked that. The options mix a combination of service… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Region of laws
Pay-as-you-throw in Frederick?; Ways to avoid paying five cents; Get a shorter vehicle or park it off the street; Faregates to accept credit cards?; Teens not in a rush to drive; And you thought the lines were long at the DMV; And…. Keep reading…
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Feds name Mort Downey, Marcel Acosta to WMATA Board
The Obama administration has named two of the federal representatives to the WMATA Board of Directors, the Washington Post reports. Keep reading…
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Around the world: Dodging and parking
Cat commuting no more; Electric bikes turning deadly; Where all modes meet; No meters makes it too hard to park; Nowhere to park… that you can see; Yahoo patents parking sensors; Game deciphers parking signs. Keep reading…
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Sign up to testify at Wednesday’s WMATA budget hearing
The hearing on the WMATA budget is this coming Wednesday. It’s important to get lots of riders there to weigh in on the four options, and to show WMATA Board members the importance of having hearings or town halls like these on future budget decisions. Keep reading…