Posts tagged Procurement
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If Metro had been more like Southwest Airlines, it’d have saved a lot of headaches
Last summer, I took my first ride on one of Metro’s new 7000 series railcars. They’re impressive, but had I gotten my way back in 2006, when I was WMATA’s interim General Manager, that ride would have never happened. Keep reading…
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The winner of a design competition will build the WWI Memorial. Here’s what that means.
Today, the sponsor of the World War I Memorial will choose the winner of its design competition, meaning we’ll get a sense for what the memorial will look like in the end. Whether or not design competitions succeed depends heavily the work that goes into planning them. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: We need to talk
Still can’t hear you; Show me the money; VRE heads south; Whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on; McMillan again; Quiet down; Party in Bethesda?; Best bike laws?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Slow change
Mayoral meddling; A “pop-up” pause; The future of Tysons; Teaching parents; Litter enforcement; Purple line procurement; Poverty and pedestrian deaths; Meaningless buttons; And…. Keep reading…
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Mayoral challengers criticize the Gray administration’s streetcar progress
We interviewed candidates for DC mayor and competitive council races for the April 1 primary, and recorded the conversations on video. We will be posting the videos for each subject area and each race over the course of a few weeks. See all of the interviews here. Love it or hate it, DC is building a streetcar, but there have been a lot of delays in getting it running. We already posted… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro’s got the beat
Metrobeat?; 3rd suicide avoided; Transit Center problems go further; No streetlight contract again; Really tall pop-up; “Mega-commutes” not uncommon; Silly other states; And…. Keep reading…