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Neha Bhatt, D.C.'s pedestrian advocate, speaks on our walkability challenges
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The chair of the Pedestrian Advisory Council gives her take on what the District needs for safer walking as well as how we'll need traffic cameras, engineering skill, and public passion to help transform our city for the better.
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New 'Metro Master' iPhone app promises an easier WMATA ride
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David Glidden and Andrew Thal published a new app yesterday that offers a better way to navigate the Metro. They spent months riding the system to calculate Metro Master's benefits, which include data about which cars are least likely to be crowded, arrival times, and trivia.
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A Brooklyn artist imagines the D.C. Metro map made out of M&Ms
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Henry Hargreaves sees transit in a new way and has created "The Subway Series" to highlight the subway maps of Moscow, New York, D.C., and Paris with materials like candy, yarn, and pipe cleaners.
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Cheers! The Tweed Ride is rolling through D.C. yet again
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Eric Brewer, founder of Dandies & Quaintrelles, imagines between 700 and 800 people might join him for the flashy, fashionable ride on Sunday, November 13. Hear his thoughts about what makes the experience special as well as why Metro commuters need to smile more.
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Revolights shine a glowing LED light on bike safety and design
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Three men in Palo Alto have dreamed up a radical new night light for bicycles — LED lights attached directly to the tires themselves. The project has raised more than $200,000 this fall and hope to begin selling these gorgeous bike lights by spring of 2012. Revolights' Adam Pettler tells us how the idea was born.
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Iconic VW bus rolls to life in a new documentary film
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Damon Ristau, director of the forthcoming documentary The Bus, shares his thoughts on the eccentricities, history, and wonder that have led a post-World War II utility vehicle into becoming an American icon that signifies freedom, hippies, and the open road.
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Hear the sweet music of the D.C. Metro's own Sufjan Stevens
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Tax man by day, musician by night, Jason Mendelson is composing a song for every Metro station, an album for every line.
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Inside 'D.C. Metro People': Our trains' iPhone photographer speaks
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A Q&A with the man who has discreetly taken hundreds of photos of WMATA commuters throughout the past year.
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