Breakfast links: Old news and new news

More bikes on and around trains

VRE will begin allowing full-size bikes, with restrictions, on its trains on Friday. Meanwhile, Metro is adding bike racks around the system. (WTOP, Froggie)  (Tip: Froggie)

Screen not on the Green

As you probably already saw, HBO has ended its sponsorship of the summer movie series Screen on the Green. (We Love DC) There’s a Facebook group to try to save it.

Mies box or transit stop?

Preservationists in Chicago are trying to block a transit stop to save a minor work by Mies van der Rohe. (Chicago Tribune, Beatus Est)  (Tip: beatusest)

Few MoCo employees using car-sharing, yet

Montgomery County launched a pilot car sharing program for county employees, but in the first 3½ months, they only used it 16 times. (Examiner/WTOP)

Press article uses active verb for crash!

A press account of an auto crash doesn’t make it sound as though the car were driving itself. “Authorities say a Washington man being followed by an acting Prince George’s County sheriff’s sergeant crashed on the Capital Beltway, killing his passenger and injuring himself.” (WTOP)

Bus stop answers

People made a lot of good guesses on the bus stop quiz. Here are the answers. (Toxel)  (Tip: Jaime)