Posts about Weather
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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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Metro will shut down Friday night. Most buses won’t even run Friday.
As the region prepares for tomorrow’s snowstorm, major transportation modes are already announcing they’ll be fully shut down through Sunday. Metro is even stopping most of its buses as early as Friday morning. Keep reading…
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How snow exacerbates the weaknesses of suburban road design
A lot of people had awful commutes Wednesday night, thanks to snow. And a lot of people had fine ones. One explanation for the difference: Suburban roads are far more susceptible to catastrophic breakdown than urban street grids. Keep reading…
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Shovel your sidewalks! Now, you can get fined
For years, it was the law in DC that property owners had to shovel sidewalks after a snow, but there was no practical way to enforce the law. That’s now changed, and owners of homes and buildings that don’t shovel can get fines this year. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Snowlock
No salt, no service; Snow status; Metro steadies for snow; No veto for I-66; Know thy neighborhood; Trail for Fort Lincoln?; Online underground; Middle-sized housing is missing; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not so grand
Vision 1000?; Housing heats up; Where Lyft takes you; The eggcellent Echo; Winter riding; Math fail; Forget shiny noses; And…. Keep reading…
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Here is a map of… something in DC. Can you Guess what?
This is our fourth post of a map of… something in DC. Our last map was a challenge for most of our readers. Last time, the map showed the number of times each station had appeared in the other Greater Greater Washington game, WhichWMATA. Can you guess what this one is showing? If you need clues, there are five after the jump! Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s on the Pike?
Plans for the Pike; Loss of communication; Schools, the commute killer; Quarry’s coming; I believe in MPD; Behind Marriott’s move; Suburbia, socially engineered; Cruising out of style; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Faster, faster, slower, slower
Pick up the pace; Slow down for the children; The bus stops here; Exurban transit; You really gotta shovel this year; Pilgrims on a train; Fighting inequality; Studying Freddie Gray; Help us, Congress. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Safety first
MPD on the MBT; Striping for safety; Metro, meet Congress; More Parkway CaBi; More rides for Metrorail; Still poor; The new ghost town; And…. Keep reading…