Breakfast links: Safety first
MPD on the MBT
Police were reportedly unable to respond to a call about a robbery on the Metropolitan Branch Trail because there were no markers to direct them to the location of the incident. (TheWashCycle)
Striping for safety
Transurban, the company that operates the 495 and 95 Express Lanes, has added purple lane markings to select entrances as part of an experimental program to improve driver attentiveness and safety. (Post)
Metro, meet Congress
Two House subcommittees grilled WMATA on its languishing general manager search, lack of cellphone coverage, poor management, and financial problems yesterday. One member even threatened privatization. (Post)
More Parkway CaBi
Eight more Capital Bikeshare stations will go in and around the GW Parkway in Arlington, thanks to a new federal grant. Locations include the Pentagon, the parking lot to Roosevelt Island, and National Airport.
More rides for Metrorail
Metrorail ridership is up 1.5% from last year. But some of that growth comes from fewer snow days this year and lost ridership in late 2013 due to the government shutdown. (PlanItMetro)
Still poor
A new report finds that DC has more children living in poverty now than during the recession. While DC has a higher rate of children in poverty than the US as a whole, that number has grown more slowly than the national average. (City Paper)
The new ghost town
Suburban office parks sit empty in the Washington region and across the country as remnants of an earlier age when we valued putting our offices far from cities. They reflect a history of an anti-urban society. (Post)
And…
A new advocacy group will push for the interests of single-family homeowners in Arlington. (Inside Nova) … States like Wisconsin spend billions on new overpasses while neglecting maintenance and transit. (Politico) … DC hospitals have data on bike crashes, but don’t (and can’t) report it. (WashCycle)