Breakfast links: Want to pay Metro fares with an Android phone? There’s (finally) an app for that
This, but on your Android phone. SmarTrip card by m01229 licensed under Creative Commons.
Phone-based SmarTrip cards aren’t just for Apple anymore
Metro is finally rolling out an Android version of its virtual SmarTrip fare cards starting Tuesday. The transit system has allowed iPhone users to use their phones to pay virtually since September. (Justin George / Post)
DC is getting more speed cameras
DC is installing nine new speed cameras as well as a new red-light camera at the I-695 offramp to 11th Street SE. (Luke Lukert / WTOP)
Cloudy with a chance of cicadas
There are so many cicadas they’re showing up on the weather radar. Radar bounces off things in the sky — much as cicadas bounce off your shoulder (or face) — so it makes sense that billions of cicadas bumbling around would mess with the signal. (Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian)
Funds could be coming for North Capitol Street deckover
Grassroots groups have been pushing for a deckover to cross North Capitol Street that would link Bloomingdale, Eckington, and Edgewood. Now the mayor’s proposed budget includes $1 million for a feasibility study. (Nena Perry-Brown / UrbanTurf)
Bicyclist, small child killed in separate car crashes in Virginia
Multiple vulnerable road users were killed in Virginia in the past week. 24-year-old Fatima Del Carmen Alvarez Romero was struck by a driver and killed while crossing Telegraph Road on a bicycle in Alexandria on Thursday; and a child was struck by a driver and killed in Fairfax County on Monday. (Dana Hedgpeth / Post, Martin Weil / Post)
Renters organize strike at Hyattsville apartment
A group of renters at an apartment complex in Hyattsville organized a rent strike after months of waiting for rent relief as the end of the national eviction moratorium approaches on June 30. (Kyle Swenson / Post)
Organization seeks to bridge regional east-west economic gap
Following a report showing people east of I-95 have less economic mobility than those to the west after decades of segregation, Connected DMV is the latest organization to push for strengthening regional cooperation to bridge the gap. (Robert McCartney / Post. Tip: Chester B.)
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