Posts tagged Mort Downey
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Breakfast links: Metro’s big bite of the Big Apple
NYC subway safety leader joins Metro; Mort Downey on the “death spiral”; Fairfax City does a 180 on homeless support; CaBi flourishes in Alexandria; Safety after the Fort Totten crash; Historic “shotgun house” plans; The skywalk is the limit…ing factor. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: In short supply
Loudoun’s Silver Line plan; Sold in NoVa; Hope for Memorial Bridge; Metro sound bites; School funds; Build the Bay; The problem with office parks; Better, cheaper bike lanes. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fray and fate
Metro’s inspection problem; $15 minimum wage?; MoCo says no to accessible ride hailing; DC budget priorities; Reston revolution; Vision Zero, Waze style?; Short on homes. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ticket to ride
Jack’s back; Metro opens all doors; Parking tickets tossed; Gondola goals; Soft support for RFK stadium; Tear down this treehouse; Sidewalk savior; Where VA grows; Need more people to eat. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What took so long?
Federal funding, finally; The customer comes first; Shifting demographics in DC; Bus lane support; Locked up in Lorton; Purple line property rights; Seriously, no parking. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro madness and density duels
Skip the stop; Still too many short trains; Mort malfeasance?; Doesn’t want density; Putting out fires; Repect Rock Creek; The walking dead; Forget globally, fund locally; And the newest objection to bike lanes is. Keep reading…
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Station name debate focuses too little on helping riders
If you listened to the WMATA Board discuss station names this morning, you could be forgiven if you concluded the board is made up of representatives from local universities, hospitals, and sports teams, and that those institutions, rather than riders and residents, pay for Metro. That’s because where institutions want to be on Metro station names, most members from… Keep reading…
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WMATA Board won’t stop bag searches
WMATA CEO Richard Sarles and Chief Michael Taborn retain the authority to keep randomly checking riders’ bags, after only Tommy Wells and Kathy Porter stood up clearly opposed to the program during a Board discussion today. Others either cited a belief that the bag searches were just, or an unwillingness to stop even an unjust program against the bugaboo of security. Tom… Keep reading…
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WMATA Board ponders cutting late-night service
WMATA Board members, including federal representatives and new members from DC and Arlington, expressed a willingness to explore cutting back late-night weekend transit service at their meeting today. The tenor of the debate differed greatly from that of previous years, when Board members pushed hard against even the suggestion of such cuts. This move would save substantial… Keep reading…
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Should NTSB recommendations get a blank check?
Following the June 2009 Red Line crash that killed 9 people, the NTSB made several recommendations to Metro based on the causes of the crash. While these recommendations are obviously important, Metro has an obligation to riders, and to the families of the victims, to ask what safety trade-offs would be made by implementing them. What safety trade-offs could NTSB… Keep reading…