Transportation
Greater Greater Washington writes about how people get around the Washington region, whether on Metro, buses, streetcars, driving, walking, biking, or any other method.
One of the region’s strengths is the wide range of options for travel. There are many walkable places in DC, Maryland, and Virginia where people could choose transit, walk or bike, or if they don’t have their own car, grab a shared vehicle or hail a ride. This reduces the need to own cars, saving people money and reducing traffic congestion.
As our region grows, it is imperative to continue to make these options safe, economical, and available to even more people. It is imperative to ensure safe sidewalks and bicycle infrastructure, expand transit options, and add housing near existing transit stations.
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Free Metro parking for inauguration?
Metrorail set its highest-ever ridership record on Friday, July 11th, with a combination of a Nationals game, high gas prices, conferences and summer tourism driving over 854,000 people to the trains. But everyone expects that record to pale in comparison to January 20, 2009: the inauguration of President Obama. Keep reading…
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On the calendar: modern, new, and fast
There’s one week to go until Thanksgiving, and Greater Washington has some exciting events to pass the time: Keep reading…
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“Everyone benefits if we can leave our cars”
During the campaign, Transportation For America created this pledge, which they asked candidates to sign to show their support for a new direction in transportation funding: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: tastes great, less filling
Please enroll in transportation economics 101: UMD’s Residence Hall Association Keep reading…
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Why can’t we do some of this?
Within a year of Janette Sadik-Khan taking the reins at New York City’s Department of Transportation, they got new plazas, “cycle track” buffered bike lanes, express bus lanes, Summer Streets, and more. Keep reading…
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This alternative is technically impossible because neighbors would complain
Do transportation consulting companies really provide unbiased analysis, or do they simply conclude whatever their paying client wants to hear? Keep reading…
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Residents support the Purple Line at Bethesda/Chevy Chase hearing
I testified at the Bethesda/Chevy Chase Purple Line hearing last night. Most speakers rehashed the same arguments made back and forth in western Montgomery County over the past few years. The “Save the Trail” crowd repeated their parochial concerns. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Doomsday edition
Will they just cancel MARC entirely?: Maryland’s transportation revenue is down another $2.5 billion beyond the $1 billion cuts already made, reports the Post. That’s very bad news for the Purple Line and Corridor Cities Transitway. But of course, the $2.4 billion ICC is immune thanks to its privileged financing agreement. MARC riders spoke out against the previous… Keep reading…
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Cutting transit: a 1958 solution to a 2008 problem
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett has proposed budget cuts to RideOn that would reduce service. Meanwhile, Leggett doesn’t plan to cut any road projects. Every little road “upgrade” (and by “upgrade” I mean widening, making cars go faster, and causing more pedestrian injuries) in the county is still going forward as planned. Keep reading…
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I thought criminals took transit?
Last month, Freakonomics revisited the ridiculous argument that transit brings crime into the innocent little suburbs. More recently, Just Up the Pike followed a shooting that occurred on a Silver Spring bus recently, prompting more discussion on the possibility that mass transit increases crime. Keep reading…