Holiday lull in the Flickr pool
Here are our favorite new images from the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool, showcasing the best and worst of the Washington region.
What are your predictions for 2015?
Next week, we'll review the year's best posts and recent events. But while you're recovering from holiday food and revelry and/or toiling away at work, tell us your predictions for 2015.
Morning links: Maryland growth
Bethesda going green? • Business backs Purple Line • Rotten farming • Biking gets a little safer • Where are my trains? • And...
Happy holidays!
Whether you're giving gifts, eating Chinese food, or doing something else, most of you have a day off tomorrow, and we'll be off too. Either way, have a very happy holiday, and if you haven't already, please support us to help keep us running through 2015!
A runner races the Metro
Runner Alison Meek raced a Metro train from Federal Triangle to Smithsonian. Watch the video to see if she made it into the same train before the doors closed.
Breakfast links: Getting crowded
DC's population grows (slower) • Walmart number 4 • Fannie Mae moving downtown • Not just a pavilion • No fracking in NY • Train to the games • And the winner is...
Let’s start a speaker series in 2015
Here's one way your contribution will help make greater Washington greater: You can help us arrange more speakers, and record and live stream the discussions, to make it possible for you to hear from more interesting people on the topics you care about.
Should Congress be the ones to deliver more and better transportation infrastructure, or should we?
Now that the cromnibus crisis is crover, it's not too soon to remember that the current federal surface transportation spending authorization is going to run out in six months. Before things get down to the wire, we should remind ourselves of why surface transportation finance has become such a messy issue.
Breakfast links: New connections
To market, to market • Surprise opening • Bridge bonus • Tolling treat • Game day mode share • Who's who • Fatal flaw • And...
What if Matthew McConaughey made ads for Metro?
You might have seen ads for Lincoln cars on TV featuring Matthew McConaughey. This parody video by Ben Ross (not the same Ben Ross that contributes to Greater Greater Washington) mimics that style.