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6 months

More people ride the NY subway on any average weekday than all US airports combined on their busiest day ever.

Subway and bus ridership for 2022

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@flightradar24

6 months

Yesterday was the busiest day ever at airports in the US, with the @TSA reporting 2,884,783 people screened. It was also an incredibly smooth day of travel with fewer than one-half of one percent of 51,332 scheduled flights canceled.

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It was ½ the cost for me to drive from DC to NJ & back than it was to take @Amtrak , alone, w/ these gas prices, including parking all day long, for just the NE Regional. That's a total failure of policy & finance. If ever there's a trip that should be cheaper by rail, that's it.

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20 years ago it was common for the DC area to have two dozen days every summer with Code Red air quality, like today. They've almost completely disappeared, thanks to federal anti-pollution regulation that works.

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4 years

The stripping of Union Station's Great Hall of benches and fountains turned one of the city's great places to linger into a place to merely pass through.

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@beyonddc

2 years

This project cost $214 million and faced less public scrutiny than a downtown bike lane.

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2 years

The I-295 Malcolm X Interchange project is complete and open in Ward 8, with the interchange and accompanying trail creating easier access for a growing area.

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3 years

Cyclists in Denver this morning are encountering a car stuck between fence rails of a bike/ped bridge over the South Platte River.

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11 months

As my bus crawls along US-50 in Virginia, I cannot help but recall that 1. Decades ago there were bus lanes here 2. When VDOT did the study that resulted in I-66 HOT lanes, an option for BRT on 50 performed so well in their traffic model that they didn't believe the results

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9 months

Glen Burnie is the most frustrating place in Maryland

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4 years

"Get out of my fucking way!" shouts the driver out their window as I walk legally through the crosswalk. Cars do this to people. Cars do this to our society. Of all the many reasons to reduce car dependence, the toxic behavior they teach us to live with is not the least.

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6 months

Left: Suburban Phoenix, where we paid extra for a wireless tram so as not to impact the historic view. Right: The Roman Colosseum. 📷 Tempe: @christofspieler , Rome: unknown

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2 years

@HowardArenstein "Unfortunately not everybody does in reality" is literally why the camera is there. The fact that you think it's a reason to oppose the camera is just... wow.

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8 months

Amtrak riders per train departure is a fascinating metric. Via @railpassengers

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3 months

I don't run to catch #WMATA trains anymore. I trust there will be one within a few minutes. It's glorious.

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@beyonddc

5 months

Today would've been a great day to have that pedestrian tunnel from Gallery Place to Metro Center.

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@beyonddc

3 years

WMATA is taking an axe to all regional rail service in order to investigate 1 crash in which nobody was hurt. There's not a single road in the city that should be open to traffic under that standard.

Metro Forward

@wmata

3 years

ALERT: As part of the investigation into the Blue Line derailment, Metro is holding out of service all of its 7000-series railcars, which is about 60% of its rail fleet. Without these rail cars, Metro will operate about 40 trains tomorrow. 1/2

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5 years

Imagine looking at this picture and thinking it would be better as an 8 lane highway. Yet every US city makes that choice. Via

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2 months

This driver whipped around the corner at high speed, came inches from plowing into the stopped school bus picking up kids, sat honking at it for minutes, came out to shout obscenities at the bus driver, and then threw a rock before eventually turning around & driving away.

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9 months

Benches, cafés, trees, and fountains with ledges to sit on. Beautiful reasons to dwell, stolen from the public.

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@beyonddc

6 years

Is your child texting about transit? Know the signs. BTW—Bus/Trolley War GTG—Get Transit, Girlfriend FML—Fund My Light-rail IMHO—If Metro Had Operated ICYMI—In Case Your Mode-share Increases TLDR—Transit Loves Dedicated Right-of-way LOL—Love Of Locomotives BRB—Big Rapid Bus

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1 year

Huge empty spaces that look nice in 3-inch screen renderings need places to sit in real life.

Feds release updated $8.8 billion redevelopment plan for Union Station

The revised vision for the rail station includes less parking, an underground drop-off area, and integrated bus, pedestrian and bike access.

www.washingtonpost.com

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5 months

If you want a vibrant and healthy city—regardless of what you think about sports or subsidies—20,000 people going to events 200 days per year in the suburbs instead of downtown isn't good.

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7 months

The secret of Virginia's Amtrak expansions is that both rural Republicans and urban Democrats love the program. Consensus is rare, and Virginia Amtrak has it.

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3 months

A permanent WMATA merchandise store inside Union Station would be cool.

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1 year

The key to understanding the Silver Line: Tysons has more jobs than most big-city downtowns. The Silver Line is really a rail line for Tysons that conveniently connects to DC's Metro.

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@beyonddc

1 year

Hear me out: Metro service is currently better than it's been for a decade. Frequency maybe a bit below old peaks, but not at all bad! And not having all the unexpected (but near constant) breakdowns more than makes up for the difference.

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@SavingPlaces It's a parking lot next to a warehouse. You have lost the thread. If this is what preservation stands for, count me—and the next generation—out. I implore you to be more selective. The backlash to over-preservation will be harsh and awful if you cannot restrain yourselves ever.

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4 months

Arlington's mixed-use church+gas station will become a mixed-use church+gas station+740 residential units HT @a_r_marshall Plans:

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1 year

If we can close this street to cars for over a month every year, while the Wiz & Caps are both in-season, there's no reason it shouldn't be permanently pedestrianized.

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@beyonddc

7 months

New plan for Baltimore Inner Harbor redevelopment just dropped

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1 year

Real news! Maryland inks agreements to extend MARC to Crystal City VA & Newark DE, connecting to VRE & SEPTA

Maryland advances plan for MARC train service to Virginia, Delaware

The Maryland Department of Transportation said it has reached an agreement with Virginia for the potential future expansion of MARC to Alexandria.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@beyonddc

6 months

It should not. Metro is the wrong mode for BWI, needlessly expensive to both build and operate. If Metro is the only solution we ever do, we'll end up with far less transit than we deserve. Better MARC plus a people mover connection between MARC & the airport is the answer.

Greater Greater Washington

@ggwash

6 months

Green’s the new Blue? Maybe Metrorail’s next big extension should bring the Green Line to BWI:

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6 months

The transit angle: Huge win for fixing #WMATA 's fiscal cliff.

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@LarrySabato

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Both VA houses have gone to the Dems. Quite a rebuke to @GlennYoungkin .

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2 years

That's new ✈

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5 months

Baltimore is shutting down its entire light rail system to fix problems that caused one (1) rider to be hurt. Not killed. Hurt. Imagine if we applied that standard to roads & cars.

Mechanical issues force MTA to suspend all light rail services: 'Safety of our riders is paramount'

All light rail services will be suspended effective Friday, the according to an announcement from the Maryland Transit Authority.

www.cbsnews.com

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3 years

Today in dumb news: Florida will make Brightline pay for the lost highway tolls of riders who take the train instead of drive.

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@beyonddc

6 months

H Street as a drinking hotspot is barely hanging on because ridehailing isn't cheap anymore. H Street as a holistic living neighborhood is doing great, better than it was 5 years ago, and it's not particularly close.

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3 months

Know how a lot of airports have internal trains? That's partly bc an FAA rule prevented airports from helping to pay for train lines shared by non-airport users. The FAA just changed that rule, and we have the #WMATA Silver Line to thank for it!

U.S. Airports No Longer Have to Build Their Own Terrible Trains

The byzantine bureaucratic rule that made useful airport connections to mass transit difficult is finally gone. Its legacy will live on in our crappy trains.

www.vice.com

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@beyonddc

2 years

@PatrickRuffini How fast do you think you should be able to drive through our neighborhoods, with the only consequences coming to people outside your car? Go ahead. Say a number. I'd really like to know how fast you think whatever Very Important Business you have entitles you to go. Tell us.

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@beyonddc

2 years

Watch this and never again say a goddamn word about how pedestrians should pay more attention or wear brighter colors.

Anthony Tilghman

@AnthonyTilghman

2 years

Crossing Guard In Cecil County #MD Saves Child by pushing her out the way from speeding car.

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1 year

Future big opening(s) for DC-area rail transit: • Potomac Yard station: 2023 • Purple Line: 2026 • Benning Rd streetcar: 2026

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5 months

If Metro doesn't get more state funding: • 10 rail stations close • 54% of bus routes (67 of 135) eliminated • 30% of bus routes (41/135) reduced • Rail service ends at 10pm & headways lengthen significantly • 20% fare increase • 2,286 layoffs

Metro GM says 10 stations and 67 bus lines may be cut, 2,000 layoffs possible if budget gap isn't...

Metro General Manager Randy Clarke warned of dramatic service and job cuts if the transit agency doesn’t close a $750 million budget gap in the first half of 2024. Metro has sounded the alarm for...

www.nbcwashington.com

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@beyonddc

6 months

Friendship Heights in the late 20th Century must've been a sight to see.

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5 months

Barnes & Noble returning to its old Georgetown space is such great news! It's a really useful 3rd space on a stretch of M Street that needs one, espec in the summer when that A/C is a needed respite. And the re-emergence of bookstores generally is so A+

Barnes & Noble returning to former Georgetown retail space

The bookseller fills the void created by sports apparel giant Nike.

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5 years

Denver is giving two downtown streets *two* bus lanes each, one for stops and one for passing.

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1 year

Dammit. The status quo of buses isn't bad because of fares. It's bad because they're deprioritized on streets, are too slow, and too rarely come. Don't do this, @charlesallen . Don't lock us into a bad status quo in order to pay for a short time of operating.

Jordan Pascale

@JWPascale

1 year

New: D.C. council’s transportation committee wants to pause the K Street Transitway project and use funds to pay for most of fare-free bus program. The idea is that transitway was very much needed pre-pandemic but doesn’t make as much sense with current downtown situation.

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5 months

Prediction: Having been embarrassed, our city leaders will now bend over backwards and spend far more money to lure into town the one kind of stadium that should /never/ occupy valuable urban land. 8 games per year and a gigantic parking lot, coming soon to DC. Bet on it.

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@beyonddc

4 months

Flooding is bad and all, but The Awakening was made for this moment.

National Harbor

@NationalHarbor

4 months

Will the #Awakening be totally covered? There is still another hour till high tide and more rain still coming. @fox5dc

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This is... genius. A simple change that improves customer experience for free, that nobody had thought of for the decades we've had these signs.

OneOneTwo ✂️✊❄️💣🔥⚡

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Last night I took some time to ride one of the Last Trains of the night on @wmata , and I did not realize the PIDs could display "LastTrain" as a destination, that's really cool!

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1 year

Middle two are out of character and gotta go; sorry, I don't make the rules

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3 months

Counterpoint: It should be twice as tall.

UrbanTurf

@UrbanTurf_DC

3 months

450 Apartments Above The Mall: 20-Story Development Pitched Above Silver Spring's Ellsworth Place.

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2 years

Hating on condos has ~always~ been a lame, exclusionary, and regressive take.

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2 years

What if café tables and no parking at all?

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1 year

Maybe someday DC will be willing to do what they do now in [checks notes] central Virginia

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5 months

Does anyone in Richmond understand the station is worthless unless they pay for trains to use it?

Tom Roussey

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5 months

As big a deal as was made about the Potomac Yard Metro being a huge reason the Wizards/Capitals want to move to Virginia, apparently no one actually contacted Metro before yesterday's announcement. GM Randy Clarke said today no one called him... (1/2) #wmata

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4 months

Gnight DC

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6 months

We can build anything in ten years. If the completion date is more than a decade away, it's not a real project and politicians are just buying time.

M. Nolan Gray

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6 months

"Forecasted Opening: 2047" Holy hell.

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4 years

You just know it's going to be delivery robots that convince elected leaders to fund adequate sidewalks, after decades and decades of ignoring live humans.

M. Nolan Gray

@mnolangray

4 years

Now this is cool: just watched a little delivery robot try (and fail) to navigate the treacherous sidewalks of one of America's richest neighborhoods. Don't worry, I saved the little guy.

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9 years

Civic priorities. http://t.co/skSuTO6oDg

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4 months

DC's F Street, sometime in the 1940s. So many people weren't allowed to participate fully in this society. No glossing over that atrocity. But look how in a vibrant downtown pedestrians outnumber cars 50 to 1, and transit owns the middle of the street.

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2 years

Gigantic new Union Station plans & renderings! The station building: Outside public spaces: HT @yfreemark

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🚨BALTIMORE IS RELAUNCHING THE RED LINE!🚨

Wes Moore relaunches Baltimore’s Red Line, but big questions remain

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore plans to revive the east-way transit line canceled by his predecessor eight years ago, but whether it will be a light rail or a rapid bus system remains unclear.

www.washingtonpost.com

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2 years

That calming silence you're enjoying outside today is in no small part just the absence of car traffic's constant buzzing.

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11 months

Imagine how amazing Annapolis' inner harbor would be if it weren't literally mostly parking lots.

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5 years

At Union Station, waiting for MARC: DAUGHTER: "Why are the trains not in the building?" ME: "Because we're not as good at this as Europe."

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4 years

In white NW, Rock Creek Park is always open from every direction. In black NE, National Arboretum is fenced and usually closed. It's crap.

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3 months

If the game is easy parking, suburbs *always* beat the city. Only way for the city to win is to play a different game.

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3 years

A DC map I desperately want to see: Rat territory versus feral cat territory.

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1 year

Union Station security just harrassed my 6 year old for sitting on the floor eating ice cream bought in @UnionStationDC_ and you can be fucking sure we'll never buy ice cream there again. In case it's still unclear to anybody why Union Station's having trouble retaining retail.

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8 months

The actual Silver Spring spring. I kinda think it ought to be a bigger deal.

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10 months

Meanwhile, #WMATA takes so long to open the doors after trains stop that it meaningfully reduces frequency systemwide.

Reece 🚇

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10 months

Montreal is so aggressive with opening the doors on the metro, they even do it before the train has stopped

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6 months

Biden announces $16 billion for NE Corridor rail projects

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5 years

Reminder than @elonmusk 's "loop" (they dropped the "hyper" part because it's not) is a scam.

@[email protected]

@srepetsk

5 years

So, it's basically just a single underground lane of highway, except with 70 ventilation shafts.

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@beyonddc

5 years

Dear all transit agencies: If you don't have a basic PDF system map one click away from your home page, you are doing it wrong.

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4 years

I don't know if it was done to make private events easier, to displace homeless people, or what. But not being able to sit down here reduced the city's public life.

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1 year

There's never been a clearer summary of the difference between museum Washington and living Washington than describing Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol & White House as "off the beaten path."

National Mall NPS

@NationalMallNPS

1 year

Off the beaten path, the Old Post Office Tower is a great place to visit in the heart of #WashingtonDC . Open daily, visitors can enjoy stunning views from the observation deck & learn more about its fascinating history:

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Dude with a "coexist" bumper sticker laying on his car horn & screaming at a pedestrian in a legal crosswalk. Takoma is such a trip. ✌

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$1 billion for Raleigh to Richmond Amtrak! It'll be a complete re-route of the existing roundabout tracks that take forever.

Joe Bruno

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Wow: Senator Thom Tillis is announcing a $1 billion grant to build passenger rail from Raleigh to Richmond. The funds are from the bipartisan infrastructure law, which Tillis supported @wsoctv

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WMATA's Pride train pulls into Dupont Circle, and a cheer erupts from hundreds of people

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3 years

When car traffic was light during the pandemic, aggressive drivers took it as license to be more aggressive. Now that car traffic has rebounded, I don't think they've gone back. It feels so dangerous, every day.

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5 years

"That's the D8 that goes to our house!" Said my 3 year old who cannot yet read her full name, but can apparently correctly ID route numbers on the front of buses.

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1 year

Ohio Dr should be buses & handicap vehicles only, with free shuttles from satellite parking from RFK & Pentagon City. Every suburb understands how to manage special events like this. It's embarrassing DC doesn't.

Tom Roussey

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1 year

The worst cherry blossom traffic I have ever seen!!! They made Ohio Drive one way eastbound this year and I’m thinking they need to rethink that. Also they had plans to close East Basin Drive near the Jefferson Memorial but it is open.

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@MichaelDNahas @christofspieler I'd be willing to bet Rome typically spends more on transit annually than Phoenix. Just a hunch.

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2 years

Vigilante justice in the 15th Street bikeway

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9 months

Slashing service to pay for electrification makes it clear the whole thing is about virtue signaling, not reducing emissions.

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OPINION: The DC Circulator nearly had its funding slashed this year, and its future is uncertain as the cost of bus electrification is pitted against the cost of service. It’s a lose-lose for riders and the environment:

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1 year

A+ no notes

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3 years

Good thing we got those scooters under control

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3 years

This should be a dozen different streets in DC, every summer Saturday. #OpenStreetsDC

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5 years

Filling this with cars isn't better. #OpenStreetsDC

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3 years

F Street should be a square. Put a fountain in the middle of it, close it to cars, let vendors and buskers and painters and mimes go wild.

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1 year

This'll be a Metro station entrance someday

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11 months

The Anacostia River is clean enough to safely swim in. The 50-year-old swim ban still isn't fully lifted, but it's being suspended for this special event on July 8.

Dive into history! Anacostia River opens for swimming after 50 years of cleanup efforts

On July 8, swimmers are invited to brave the Anacostia River for the first time in 50 years!

wjla.com

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@beyonddc

5 months

American cities that have built new neighborhoods behind their main train stations in recent years: • NY: Hudson Yards • DC: NoMa • Denver: CPV What others?

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@beyonddc

4 months

The zoning in many of DC's most popular neighborhoods bans much more growth from happening, despite tons and tons of people who want to move there. This is what fuels displacement elsewhere in the city.

UrbanTurf

@UrbanTurf_DC

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The residential pipeline in Adams Morgan has slowed in recent years, and now there are just a handful of projects in the works for the neighborhood along 18th Street NW.

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7 months

The pedestrianized alleys of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

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5 months

The contrast between "put chairs everywhere" Georgetown and "remove all the chairs" Union Station could not be more stark. Guess which one's rocking its retail tenants and which one can't keep tshirt shops open.

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This is such a massive endorsement of the strategies put in place in Georgetown since 2020 to keep the retail and restaurants alive. We're even bringing them back from the dead!

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5 months

"East toward Largo" is pretty darn clear.

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10 months

Metro's ridership recovery is rightly getting a lot of attention! Meanwhile, @DCStreetcar & quietly leads *all* US light rail with a 140% ridership increase from Q1 2022 to 2023.

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6 months

I am waiting for the less crowded train 2 minutes away.

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2 years

Time to dust off this good boy

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5 months

$729 million for Long Bridge! We're *so* gonna double Amtrak & VRE trains going south from DC!

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Huge news for passenger rail in Virginia this morning. The federal government will provide $729 million toward the new Long Bridge over the Potomac River, creating a second span for dramatically improved @VaRailExpress & @Amtrak service.

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