Breakfast links: Metro’s headquarters is moving to L’Enfant Plaza
Metro will move its headquarters from Chinatown to L’Enfant Plaza
Metro plans to buy and renovate a now-vacant building at 300 7th Street SW for its new headquarters. If the WMATA board approved the purchase, Metro will move in two years and will probably lease the current HQ for mixed-use development (Katie Arcieri / WBJ)
An anti-union group is threatening to sue Metro over union dues
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation says Metro is violating a recent Supreme Court case ruling that public employees can't be forced to pay union dues. Metro says the group is wrong, and that since that case it has asked workers whether they want to opt in. (Martine Powers / Post)
Pedestrians will get longer lights at some busy DC intersections
Traffic lights at 93 heavily-traveled intersections in Wards 6, 7, and 8 will be reprogrammed by the end of the week to give pedestrians a walk sign before giving drivers the green light, allowing more time for people to walk across the street. (Natalie Delgadillo / DCist)
Arlington’s poorest neighborhoods have less access to healthy opportunities
A new study found that the residents of Arlington neighborhoods with higher concentrations of poverty are less able to access healthy opportunities and amenties, like green spaces or good quality housing, than any neighborhood in the Washington region. (Alex Koma / ARLnow)
Fairfax put 43 new houses on hold over floodplain concerns
Fairfax is fighting over a proposal to build a new townhouse community on a vacant, blighted lot. The opposition to the project comes in part from environmental concerns over runoff into nearby Dogue Creek, and the fact that the land is inside the creek's floodplain. (Antonio Olivo / Post)
Montgomery County is planning on expanding dockless bikeshare
After piloting dockless in Silver Spring and Takoma Park, Montgomery is looking to expand the program to the rest of the downcounty area and include scooters and electric-assist bikes. (Dan Schere / Bethesda Beat)
Goodbye, DC General
Mayor Muriel Boswer closed the city's largest homeless shelter DC General, which she promised to shutter in her 2014 mayoral campaign. DC is still building four of the six promised replacement shelters for the city's homeless families. (Martin Austermuhle / WAMU)
Maryland will vote on same-day election registration this year
Maryland can choose whether to let voters register on election day, as DC and 16 other states do. State Democratic legislators support the ballot measure, while Governor Larry Hogan has not endored it. There is bipartisan support for the other ballot measure to allot casino revenue to public education. (Rachel Chason / Post)
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