Posts tagged Official Vehicles
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Breakfast links: Sharing
MD funds bikeshare; Holds now barred; Give up cars; Baltimore’s green line; Protests need permits?; More diamonds diverge; A little goes a long way; And…. Keep reading…
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At-large candidates talk about “livable, walkable” visions
The Democratic at-large candidates for DC Council, incumbent Vincent Orange, and challengers Sekou Biddle, E. Gail Anderson Holness, and Peter Shapiro, talked about transportation, housing, land use and some social issues at last night’s forum at the Black Cat on 14th Street. Here is the full video from the event: flowplayer(“main”, “http://odd.greatergreaterwashington.org/video/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.8.swf”,… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Safety first
Metro safety in good shape; Navigatorgate drags on; Why group homes concentrate; A different kind of cycletrack; Hope and pain in Richmond; House transpo bill still flawed; Lorax hawking cars; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Inner city blues
East of the river’s self-fulfilling prophecy; Howland can’t use transportation the rest of us do; Right-to-Life Metro; Driver assaults group of cyclists on parkway; Can we get streetscape relief right?; How long is your commute?; MD redistricting advances; Charm City removes bike lane; community asks why?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rethink bikes and parks
CaBi gets Congressional support; Today is Park(ing) Day; Council vs. bike assault and corruption; Views on housing policy differ in Fairfax; Volunteers provide kids a safe passage to school; Flooded neighborhood questions future; East of the river needs movies; WMATA watching employees more carefully; Maryland lowers toll ambition; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The battle is joined
Cameras: the next bike safety feature?; McDonnell stops faking bipartisanship; Sulaimon Brown arrested, does one thing right; Metro morsels; Small savers get a slide; Architects pick box for big prize; NYC parking spaces to become parks; Ride with a bell or get strip searched?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Deck party
OP wants to restore a L’Enfant avenue; Sidewalk cafes bloom downtown; Walter Reed charging forward; Metro counts bikes; SUVgate, Congressional edition; DC strikes oil in burgers; Discuss R Street bike lane, east of river Circulator; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where can we live?
No place for homeless shelter; Wealthy but still segregated; Philly makes redistricting tool; Are intercity buses hurting Amtrak?; Possible makeover for L’Enfant Plaza; Future of Dream Act uncertain; Traffic enforcement on two wheels; And…. Keep reading…
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Breaking: Kwame Brown stripping transportation committee from Tommy Wells as retribution for SUV scandal
DC Council chairman Kwame Brown plans to remove Tommy Wells from his chairmanship of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation today. This appears to be naked political payback from February, when Wells published a report on the Lincoln Navigator scandal. Email the Council or call Brown’s office at (202) 724-8032 to express your disappointment that personal… Keep reading…
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Tommy Wells will introduce ethics reform bills
Tomorrow, Councilmember Tommy Wells will introduce 3 bills to reform some of the ethical problems DC has recently faced around inappropriate use of official vehicles and campaign finance, his staff announced today. The bill on official vehicles will: Prohibit DC from buying “luxury-class vehicles” and set other restrictions on vehicle types. Freeze the… Keep reading…