Posts about Transit
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Breakfast links: Shaken up
Keep Catoe; What about those feds?; More open data and cool ways to use it; Groups criticize CoStar tax break; Not so many taxi tickets; Kwame is sorry for speeding; Architizer or starchitizer?. Keep reading…
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Catoe to replace four WMATA executives
Deupty General Manager Gerald Francis and bus chief Milo Victoria will leave Metro, and safety chief Alexa Dupigny-Samuels and Assistant General Manager for Corporate Strategy and Communications Sarah Wilson will move to new jobs within the agency, Lena Sun reported in the Post. Many people have been calling for change at Metro, including Senator Barbara Mikulski. According… Keep reading…
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Live chat with Chris Zimmerman
Welcome to our live chat with Chris Zimmerman, member of the WMATA Board, Arlington County board, Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, and more. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Senatorial outrage
Mikulski wants a change; Coburn “doesn’t get bikes”; Not enough time for peds and drivers; How about an app for that; Ticket yourself; Bike into the office. Keep reading…
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New site lists open data apps, agencies
The folks behind WalkScore have launched a new service, City-Go-Round, which lists mobile and Web applications using open data sources to help people get around cities. Keep reading…
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Boston adds key bus routes to rail map
Like Portland and Los Angeles, and in the same vein as the “12 minute map,” Boston’s MBTA has (via produced a map that points out key bus routes in addition to the familiar rail and BRT routes. These maps fill a useful gap between a transit agency’s full system map, which often includes bus routes that have limited hours or days of operation, and its rapid… Keep reading…
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Plans envision multimodal “crossroads” at Mt. Vernon Square
DC’s least successful bicycle and transit infrastructure is on 7th and 9th Streets, NW, where drivers constantly occupy the dedicated bus-bike lanes. That’s one of the problems the DC Office of Planning and DDOT hope to address with a new study of the Mount Vernon Square area and 7th and 9th Streets. Planners also looked at ways to improve the area’s parks,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: High-speed suburban buses
ICC buses will go to BWI, Fort Meade; Fairfax plans dedicated bus lanes; C is for calming; Marketing transit; New York Avenue Costco; Cool subway architecture; Come transformare una chiesa; And…. Keep reading…
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Live chat: Chris Zimmerman, Friday at 1 pm
Greater Greater Washington will host its next live guest, Chris Zimmerman, Friday at 1:00 pm. Keep reading…