Breakfast links: You can live near a Metro stop and still save on rent
Local renters want to live near Metro stops
An analysis by RentHop found a difference of up to $1,000 per month in rents for one-bedroom apartments by Metro at different stops. The study did not compare other apartment variables, like the size or age of the building. (Michele Lerner / Post)
DC is trying to repave pothole-filled roads
After a rainy summer brought on potholes, DDOT plans to repair 88 miles of DC roads through the rest of the summer and fall. In addition to fixing major road damage from storms, DDOT is also adding crosswalks and repainting bike lanes. (Max Smith / WTOP)
After delays, the Silver Line gets an opening date
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority says that the Silver Line Phase II, connecting riders to stops in Loudoun County and Dulles Airport, will open on July 16, 2020, “give or take a few days.” (Gaspard Le Dem / DCist)
The late Toni Morrison studied and taught in DC
The Nobel laureate Toni Morrison graduated from Howard University and later taught English there. At Howard, she began writing the stories that eventually inspired her groundbreaking novel The Bluest Eye. (Mikaela Lefrak / WAMU)
E-assist CaBi bikes should return this fall
Lyft, which owns Motivate and operates Capital Bikeshare, says that e-bikes will return to CaBi docks this fall. Lyft had to pull e-bikes from San Francisco’s Bay Wheels bikeshare program after two caught fire this summer. (Max Smith / WTOP)
A driverless ART bus runs into a building
An ART bus with ten passengers on board crashed into several parked cars and a building on Columbia Pike after the driver got out of the bus at the bus stop. (ARL Now)
MoCo councilmembers oppose a wider Little Falls Parkway
MoCo councilmembers Tom Hucker, Evan Glass, and Hans Riemer wrote to the County Planning Board to oppose the decision to widen the road from two lanes to four and move the Capital Crescent Trail crossing. The road was narrowed after a cyclist was killed at that trail crossing in 2016. (Caitlynn Peetz / Bethesda Beat. Tip: Chester B.)
Rosedale Library keeps closing during high-heat days
Problems with the Rosedale Library’s HVAC system forced it to close nineteen times this year, and six times this summer on high-heat days, when libraries are normally used as cooling centers. Neighbors called on DC’s Department of General Services, which manages the shared library and community center, to fix the problem. (Danya AbdelHameid / DCist)
DC’s public campaign finance rules are tested in Ward 2
DC’s Office of Campaign Finance is struggling to answer the question of whether public financing laws allow candidates to collect $2,500 total from immediate family, or $2,500 per family member, after one of the candidates running to unseat Jack Evans for Ward 2 councilmember collected $10,000 in family donations. (Mitch Ryals / WCP)
A Virginia politician missed his ballot deadline
The Virginia Board of Elections ruled that the incumbent legislator in Culpeper, Nick Frietas, didn’t submit his campaign paperwork in time to be on this fall’s ballot, and failed to file additional paperwork to rectify the problem. (Gregory Schneider / Post)
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