Breakfast Links: What’s in a (station) name? Metro considers selling rights

Trump Tower station? Metro considers selling naming rights for stations

To shore up the budget, Metro is considering selling naming rights to Metro stations. The Los Angeles Metro voted to start selling station naming rights late last year, but are now rethinking the idea.  (Fredrick Kunkle / Post)

A petition to turn downtown Bethesda parking lots into parks

A petition to turn 500 parking spaces in county-owned surface lots into five acres of community parks has gotten 640 signatures and the attention of Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner, who is a fan of the idea.  (Nick Iannelli / WTOP)

Still tweaking the Penn Quarter parking pilot

DDOT is again adjusting parking rates in Penn Quarter as part of a pilot. Some blocks will jump to $3.25/hour and others down to $1.50/hour as they try to balance parking demand to cut down on the number of people circling to find parking.  (Michael Laris / Post)

New voices for…escalators?

Metro is testing out “talking escalators” at Gallery Place-Chinatown in a bid to warn inattentive customers before they slip and fall. The pilot comes after Metro saw a 13% increase in escalator injuries in 2016.  (Martin Di Caro / WAMU)

DC’s new police chief is a familiar face

Mayor Bowser picked interim DC police chief Peter Newsham to lead the department permanently. Newsham still needs to be confirmed by the DC Council.  (Peter Hermann / Post)

Grosvenor parking lot closer to becoming housing and retail

Over 500 new units of residential housing and retail are one step closer to coming to the Grosvenor Metro station's surface parking lot after the WMATA Board agreed to negotiate with a developer for the space.  (Andrew Metcalf / Bethesda Magazine)

Park in front of White House to reopen

Lafayette Park, the park in front of the White House, will reopen on March 1. The park has been closed since before the inauguration so that crews could build and take down an elaborate parade viewing stand used during the inauguration.  (Perry Stein / Post)

Shamrock Crawl crawls away from Clarendon

Clarendon's (in)famous Shamrock Crawl won't take place this year. The rowdy event has had its share of complaints about parking and overly drunk revelers, and attendance dropped significantly from 2014 to 2015.  (Tim Regan / ArlNow)