Posts tagged Capital Priorities
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Breakfast links: Vote!
It’s primary day; Tipped wage outrage; Preservation plans for affordable housing; Bet on bikes; Metro money matters; The best Metro info; SafeTrack, visualized. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Popping up
Ineffective rules; The rest is history; What access?; Montgomery steps up; Metro cuts will wait; Simple solutions; Remaking suburbs; And…. Keep reading…
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Many schools that need renovations may not be getting them
The Bowser administration wants to postpone or eliminate funding for needed improvements at dozens of schools. At the same time, the budget for renovating the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Georgetown has ballooned to $178 million. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget for capital improvements would delay or abandon promised renovations at 20 or possibly more… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Can’t we all get along?
Too many wars?; Cop assaults citizen with car; Republicans good for biking?; Colonel Brooks project zoning stalls; Moneme lobbies former WMATA colleagues; Examining Metro’s capital budget; A national bag fee?; Construction afoot in Near SE; And…. Keep reading…
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What should we expect from elevators and escalators?
An audit confirmed what most riders already knew: Metro’s escalators and elevators are not working like they should. The audit identified a number of places where maintenance processes and training could do a better job for maintainance and repair of escalators and elevators. The audit itself hasn’t been released, but according to Assistant General Manager… 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…