Transit
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The business implications of creating a 37-mile D.C. streetcar system
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Will mom and pop stores survive as our expensive property becomes even more expensive with the promise of new transit? The District needs to preserve affordable housing but investors are studying our streetcar plans with money in their eyes.
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Illegal? Uber scoffs, tells D.C. fans to drink up
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This Thursday, Jan. 26, Uber D.C. is holding a party called "Uber D.C. Cocktails, Innovation, and Transportation" from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on K Street to turn their noses at the forces that would have shut them down and celebrate the glory that is Uber.
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How Metro commuters react to graffiti on the Red Line
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What reactions does graffiti inspire among the D.C. residents who ride the Metro's Red Line? Are these images art or are they blight? How do the graffiti artists themselves see their creations and how do they perceive their transit-riding audience? A new 13-minute short film seeks to answer these questions.
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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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A closer look at WMATA's study about regional Metro benefits
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The full 67-page Metro report reveals numerous credible partners in a large quantitative analysis of the benefits the system brings to D.C. Here's more on why the study's $200,000 price tag makes sense.
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The poor timing to WMATA's fare hike announcement
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Why would Metro announce that prices will be going up less than a week after its miserable string of problems that included cracked rail, brake issues, a delayed suicide prevention program, SmarTrip confusion, and more.
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2012: The end of the world as Metro knows it?
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Is Metro cursed? Cracked rail, track defects, major SmarTrip confusion, a person struck last night, a suicide this morning ... and then today another part of the brake that fell off a 2000-series car. WMATA will spend the next several days investigating more than 40% of its fleet.
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Why the Dupont Circle Metro's south escalators will close for two-thirds of 2012
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Metro has unveiled brochures, videos, and other PR efforts in an attempt to prevent riders from freaking out over the prospect of no operating escalators at the south entrance to the Dupont Circle Metro station. Are you ready for the delays?
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The kitschy rise of public transit culture
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How to shift thousands of commuters from their cars to light rail and Metro? Perhaps cities should celebrate the options in ever-more T-shirts and posters, as D.C. has done with its WMATA map and St. Louis has attempted to do with its MetroLink.
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Inside North Korea's colorful, strange Pyongyang Metro and traffic, Part 1
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The capital city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was not only home to the now-deceased Kim Jong Il but an elaborate Metro system. With the leader now dead, let's turn our eyes to photos and video from the foreign transit system.
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Transit Tuesdays: D.C. wants to reduce your agonizing commute
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How to unite D.C. metro area workers with their jobs? "Sometimes we draw a box around the problem that’s a little too small," Harriet Tregoning, director of D.C.'s Office of Planning, told WAMU host Kojo Nnamdi during the 1 p.m. hour of his show yesterday.
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'City 2.0': Where the TED conference just gave its $100,000 prize
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Today TED changed the game. This afternoon, the non-profit organization announced it would be awarding the $100,000 prize not to a person but to an idea — "City 2.0," the non-profit has been calling it, devoted to all the transportation and urbanism enhancements that will allow for a growing world population.
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How our bosses can make transportation more sustainable
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The daily grind means a daily commute ... and that often means greenhouse gases. But many companies offer their employees a variety of programs to help travel more sustainably. Find out the stats here — and considering nominating your own company for an award if you work for commute-friendly heroes.
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Former Gov. Bob Ehrlich's new book title reveals the power of cars
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The Maryland politician rides forth with a new book entitled Turn This Car Around: The Roadmap to Restoring America. The transportation metaphors are nothing new in our culture but their prevalence does raise the question: How has the language of the automobile permeated our everyday psychology?
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Transit Tuesdays: Year-old Capital Bikeshare evolves, survives, thrives
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New fares and new outreach show that the bikesharing service is still innovating and adapting at the outset of its second year. Be prepared, however, because a day pass just got more expensive.
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Imagining Washington, D.C.'s unified, smart-growth transit future
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How do officials plan a growing city's transportation for the next half century? D.C. is attempting to cobble together a plan, from the folks who run Metro to directors in District government, and its first signs were on display at the recent Rail~Volution national conference.
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Steve Jobs transformed our commutes with the Apple iPod
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Walk on any sidewalk and into any Metro station during rush hour, and you'll see the iconic appearance of Jobs' iPod and earbuds. Let's remember this transit contribution in light of his recently announced death at the age of 56.
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Washington Examiner editorial says cars grant freedom, longer lives
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The newspaper's editorial on Car Free Day says we should really be celebrating the car — or as they would say, the "freedom machine." Is this argument for real?
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