Breakfast links: Feel the heat
Hot cars
Metro cars where the air conditioning does not work appear most in 5000 series cars. If you find yourself in a car without AC, you can always try moving to the next car, or notifying the train operator. (Post)
More bad news for Gray
The Gray campaign had an illegally obtained list of public housing residents that it likely used in get out the vote efforts. (Post)
Your name here
Virginia works on rules to sell highway names and to ensure that names will pop up on GPS and internet directions. AAA meanwhile calls the program a gimmick. (Examiner)
Cemetery or stables?
Federal officials have endorsed exhuming more than 100 graves over moving horse stables in a project to widen Richmond Highway. The endorsed route will also encroach on a historic Frank Lloyd Wright designed house. (WAMU)
Conflict management
While mixed use trails are popular in the area, both cyclists and pedestrians can take steps to avoid conflicts on them, making dangerous collisions even rarer. (FABB)
Not yet on board
Bob McDonnell’s three nominees to the MWAA board are running into trouble as one appointment is being held up in court and two are awaiting DC’s approval to expand the board. (Post)
And…
Arlington maps out capital spending for the next ten years, including more money for Metro and the Columbia Pike Streetcar. (Patch) … One Bethesda restaurant has a painting of the Bethesda Metro escalators painted by a Boston artist who admires the system’s efficiency. (Robert Dyer) … British cabinet ministers are not happy they have to take public transportation to the Olympics in London. (The Independent)