Breakfast links: The company that built the Wharf is suing the project’s architect
The Wharf at night. Image by airbus777 licensed under Creative Commons.
The company that build the Wharf is now suing the one that designed it
The general contractor for the massive Southwest Waterfront development is suing architect Perkins Eastman, saying that persistent structural errors in the designs cost them millions to fix over the course of the project. (Jon Banister / Bisnow)
The Metro Safety Commission met for the first time
While the first Metro Safety Commission meeting was largely procedural, it was a significant step towards fulfilling the long-overdue goal of creating a local safety oversight organization. Once the FTA certifies it, Metro can access millions in withheld federal transit funds. (Max Smith / WTOP)
The DC Council is rewriting school discipline codes to reduce racial imbalances
In order to address the disparity between punishments for white and black students at DC Public Schools, the DC Council is considering a bill to limit and specify the circumstances when students can be suspended and expelled. (Perry Stein / Post)
There’s a new electric scooter in town
Lime-S electric scooters are now available to rent and ride in downtown DC. They can motor up to about 15 mph and are fine in the bike lane but not on sidewalks. Waybots already has scooters in DC, and a third company, Bird, is expected to join. (Luz Lazo / Post)
The Virginia Metro funding deal could squeeze other projects
The deal to fund Metro does not draw on new taxes in Virginia, but instead reallocates funds. Taking $80 million from the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority will make it harder to fund transportation projects in non-Metro counties. (Alex Koma / Inside NoVA)
There’s not enough rental housing for people with low incomes in the US
The National Low Income Housing Coalition found that there is nowhere in the US with sufficient rental housing for people who earn only 30 percent of the average salary for the area, or who live below the poverty line. (Sarah Holder / CityLab)
Local students plan to participate in a gun violence protest
The national student walkout recognizes one month since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Twenty-five Montgomery County high schools plan to march to the White House for a demonstration. (Bethany Rodgers / Bethesda Beat)
New Yorkers stage a protest against pedestrian and cyclist deaths
Spurred by two children in Park Slope and a teen cyclist in Bed Stuy who were killed by reckless drivers, hundreds of protestors marched in Brooklyn to demand that Mayor Bill de Blasio take the city's Vision Zero program seriously. (David Meyer / Streetsblog NYC)
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