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The latest political headlines with Nikki Schwab
CommentNikki Schwab shares the latest political gossip from Capitol Hill.
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Uber's legality will be up to the D.C. attorney general
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The head of the D.C. Taxicab Commission is turning to the local legal authorities. But Uber pleads that it's perfectly legal and insists it will keep operating for now.
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Metro rail cracks as WMATA board discusses rail safety
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No great surprise but talk about bad timing.
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More wheelchair-accessible taxicabs are coming to D.C.
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Yellow Cab and Royal Cab have operated 20 of the larger minivans for the past year and report great success. Should the District bring in more of these pricier vehicles to serve our residents with disabilities?
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Metro employees allegedly steal as much as $150,000 in riders' fares
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Two WMATA employees have allegedly stolen thousands of dollars from riders and have been arrested, according to an affidavit issued yesterday. The apparent crime goes back months and across multiple instances.
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D.C. wants modern, inclusive taxicabs in the year to come
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The District's cabs are slowly waking up to the innovations of the 21st century as fleets integrate the Taxi Magic app, as new options like Uber raise the bar on convenience, and as politicians vocally push forward the the technology that will allow credit cards.
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D.C.'s gas station bill is hardly dead yet
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The Retail Service Station Amendment Act has inspired controversy in its half year of limbo. Today the D.C. Council briefly noted the bill and kept it alive and ready for discussion another day.
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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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D.C. Uber superfans hope to save pricey car service, crucify Ron Linton
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Say what you will about Uber, its customer service, or its legality, but the luxury car service, available in D.C. for the past month, has a freakily passionate set of fans. Whether socialite or transportation fanatic, the luxury car service's passionate defenders fight to keep it in the District.
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Metro now wants to replace far more escalators, not just rehab them
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The WMATA repair strategy has shifted — now the transit agency wants to replace several times what they had initially planned. Will this mean more entrance closures like Dupont Circle?
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Capital Bikeshare's riders may fit our exact stereotype of D.C. bicyclists
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A new Virginia Tech report confirms the numbers — D.C. bicyclists and bikeshare users are overwhelmingly white, educated professionals. Should we really have doubted the common perception of bicyclists?
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Metro history: When the Motor Maids rode to D.C.
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Motorcycles, let it be known, are not for men alone. Enter the Motor Maids, a band of female motorcyclists that formed more than 70 years ago. For their 20th convention they decided it was finally time to visit the District of Columbia.
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'This entrance will close,' Metro warns at Dupont Circle
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We've got about 20 more days until Metro closes the Dupont Circle station's south escalator entrance. Here's how the transit agency is preparing riders who take the station every day.
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Transit Tuesdays: D.C. goes into snow patrol frenzy
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Yes, D.C. experienced a few snowflakes yesterday, so cue the transportation panic. Even Luke Russert weighed in on the weather hysteria.
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No Pants Subway Ride 2012: The day when D.C. Metro riders wore no pants
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Hundreds of riders dropped their pants on the Metro yesterday afternoon, revealing underwear of every stripe. Despite some stares, few seemed to mind the lively diversion.
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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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First Metro suicide of 2012 as a woman apparently kills herself at Van Dorn
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Less than a week into 2012, WMATA is reporting that a woman placed herself on the tracks of the Van Dorn Street Metro station and was killed by a Blue Line train.
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Our busted Metro escalators produce the squeaky, strange music of city life
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Transit romantics have tapped a new emotion relating to the escalators — appreciation. And not even for the fully functional escalators, no. These people like the half-functional groan that our escalators emit as they bring us in and out of the Metro stations. Each escalator produces its own unsettling symphony of shrieks, hums, and squeaks, years of life giving way to a mechanical moan.
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