Breakfast links: Can you park here?

No more parking fraud (downtown)?

DC plans to tackle disabled parking fraud with new rules requiring people with placards to pay but giving more time. A 2012 plan for red top meters met opposition and was blocked; the new plan will just focus on the downtown area and reduce the number of red top meters. (Post)

Clues for Purple Line in Charlotte

Marylanders curious about the impact of Purple Line construction can look to Charlotte, NC, where an extension of its light-rail line caused construction disruptions and made rents rise near new stations. (Post)

Monday morning problems

Red Line trains are still sharing a track after the weekend’s extreme heat delayed cleanup from SafeTrack-related maintenance. (Post) … A car hit a bus on 16th Street; the bus ended up atop a wall. (Post) … A motorcycle crash closed the Roosevelt Bridge to DC. (WTOP)

Vulnerability in Ellicott City?

Although nothing could have prevented the deadly flood, development on formerly tree-covered hillsides above downtown Ellicott City may have made it more prone to flood damage from runoff. (Post)

Changes for Watergate lookout spot

A former hotel across the street from the Watergate where some members of the Watergate break-in team posted watch will be redeveloped into 250 apartments. (Washingtonian)

Late-night for London

At a time when people are debating late-night Metro service in DC, London recently launched 24-hour service on two tube lines to boost the nighttime economy and provide low-income workers with better transit options. (The Guardian)

Future residents unite

Why are the people who sleep in a town the only ones with any say over its land use policy? Current residents of towns often oppose new residents coming in, but the latter have no vote. (Post)

Housing: a Presidential issue

Housing discrimination is one of this Presidential election’s least salient issues, but Tim Kaine criticized Donald Trump for his history of not renting to minorities. Before politics, Kaine sued discriminatory landlords. (Post)

RIP

Marion Christopher Barry, the late former mayor’ son and once a DC Council cabdidate, died of an apparent drug overdose. (City Paper) … Robert Kiley, former head of Boston’s, New York’s, and London’s transit systems, died from Alzheimer’s. He introduced NYC’s MetroCard and implemented London’s congestion pricing. (NYT)