Posts tagged Catherine Hudgins
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Who can best represent Reston and Vienna on Fairfax’s board?
With long-time Supervisor Cathy Hudgins retiring, five Democrats hope to take her seat on the county board representing the Hunter Mill district, which includes Reston, Vienna, and neighborhoods in between and south of the Dulles Toll Road up to the airport. Keep reading…
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Fairfax County’s leadership will soon be very different. Help us make sure it stays urbanist-friendly.
The coming big challenges for Fairfax County include continuing Tysons’ shift toward walkable urbanism and bringing a similar change to the Route 1/Richmond Highway corridor in the county’s southeast. The county will face ongoing debates over adding housing in areas near new and existing transit, such as Reston. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Oops
Contractor takes down wrong, historic tree; Multiple pedestrians die; Gas tax “compromise” emerges; Door freely, wear a helmet; FBI at Greenbelt has pluses for Metro; Performance loading?; Widening pressure never ends; Lauren Graham, cyclist; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pandemonium
A crazy day in the Wilson Building; ANC 7B opposed to visible buildings; Students to get SmarTrip IDs; Alexandria ponders CaBi entry; Bus pickups move; How state DOTs are bad, like Virginia’s; Harriet on Kojo; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro security, safety and ingenuity
Bag searches before Board this morning; ATU skeptical about Metro safety progress; Metro “MacGyvers” SmarTrip sensors; Montgomery now majority-minority; VA Senate passes distracted driving bills; Arlington may get hotel tax surcharge after all; White House proposes $53 billion in 6 years for high-speed rail; MD, VA, Feds looking at wind power; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Let it snow
Snow highlights city/suburb difference; Buses not spared from wintry mess; Why H Street isn’t developing faster; Half-busy day for WMATA Board; Bag search feedback mixed; O’Malley to use transportation fund to cut deficit; Mendelson calls for better traffic enforcement; NYPD cracks down on cyclists; And…. Keep reading…
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Jaffe, McCartney talk Metro safety, “budgetary blackmail”
For the anniversary of the Metro crash, Newschannel 8 interviewed former RAC Chair and Sierra Club transit activist Dennis Jaffe and Washington Post metro columnist Bob McCartney. Unfortunately for those of you not on Windows, Newschannel 8 only provides videos in Windows Media Player format. They discussed progress toward safety on Metro, the looming NTSB report,… Keep reading…
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Zimmerman, Hudgins pushed for public discussion of budget
The WMATA Board discussed proposed service cuts for Fiscal Year 2010 as a surprise addition to the agenda last week, but they almost didn’t discuss it in public at all. They will be reconvening on Thursday, January 7th to discuss the proposals. There is some urgency to make the changes since the longer Metro waits to cut, the worse cuts (or fare increases) must be to balance… Keep reading…
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Zimmerman urges Metro to embrace “beta testing”
Metro is “more nervous than [it] need[s] to be” about opening up Web tools like NextBus to the public, said Arlington board member Chris Zimmerman at today’s Metro Board of Directors meeting, but Fairfax member Catherine Hudgins isn’t so sure. Metro staff still feel that closing off access to the real-time bus information tool until June’s launch… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It’s the 21st century
Union Station bicycle transit center photos: DC has begun construction on the Union Station bicycle transit center, which will have parking for 150 bikes and lockers, though no shower facilities. DC Bicycle Examiner has more information and a slide show of the station’s construction. Keep reading…