Breakfast links: Taxi money

Driven out

Uber drivers are not making as much as they expected, causing some to protest or quit. Fare cuts, glitches, and fees are all cutting into the drivers’ take-home pay. (Post)

Hailo for less-o

Hailo, an app which lets you request a regular taxi, is charging only half price for rides between 10 am and 4 pm. Drivers will presumably get less money, but will they make up for it in volume? (InTheCapital)

A freeway revolt in the making?

While DC officials are studying how to replace the closed segment of the Southeast Freeway, DDOT engineers still want to reopen it to traffic, at least temporarily. But will temporary become permanent? (City Paper)

Cycletracks can reduce car congestion

Although they take space away from cars, protected bike lanes can speed car travel when paired with dedicated turn lanes. New York has used this design on several avenues successfully. (CityLab)

Transportation is key to sustainability

Seattle has decreased household CO₂ emissions, first by pioneering recycling, and recently by collecting food scraps. However, increases in transportation emissions threaten that progress.  (Next City)

Will garden cities help housing costs?

A proposal to build new towns around Britain has won a prize for promoting affordable housing. Although the new towns would be compact and connected by transit, some are calling them sprawl. (The Guardian)

How to be polite

The City Paper’s etiquette guide has useful tips for riding the Metro, bicycling, using Zipcar, drinking on Uber, arguing on a neighborhood email list, or running an illegal shadow campaign. Also: don’t be snobby toward Virginians.

Memorial for freed slaves

After reading about an old gravesite near the Wilson bridge, two residents worked to preserve it. The effort uncovered 540 graves of former slaves and identified their ancestors, culminating in a new memorial. (Post)

And…

The median size of housing in American cities is similar to sizes in the suburbs, and is growing. (Citylab) … DC and Prince George’s police share data in real time to combat crimes near the border. (Post)