Breakfast links: Old news and new news
More bikes on and around trains
VRE will begin allowing full-size bikes, with restrictions, on its trains on Friday. Meanwhile, Metro is adding bike racks around the system. (WTOP, Froggie) (Tip: Froggie)
Screen not on the Green
As you probably already saw, HBO has ended its sponsorship of the summer movie series Screen on the Green. (We Love DC) There’s a Facebook group to try to save it.
Mies box or transit stop?
Preservationists in Chicago are trying to block a transit stop to save a minor work by Mies van der Rohe. (Chicago Tribune, Beatus Est) (Tip: beatusest)
Few MoCo employees using car-sharing, yet
Montgomery County launched a pilot car sharing program for county employees, but in the first 3½ months, they only used it 16 times. (Examiner/WTOP)
Press article uses active verb for crash!
A press account of an auto crash doesn’t make it sound as though the car were driving itself. “Authorities say a Washington man being followed by an acting Prince George’s County sheriff’s sergeant crashed on the Capital Beltway, killing his passenger and injuring himself.” (WTOP)
Bus stop answers
People made a lot of good guesses on the bus stop quiz. Here are the answers. (Toxel) (Tip: Jaime)