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Charge for carry-on bags? Spirit Airlines confuses and angers passengers
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Welcome to Spirit Airlines, where you can expect no complementary drinks, cheap tickets, advertisements everywhere, and the one practice that strikes so many passengers as a cardinal sin of flying and one that catches many flyers completely off-guard until they reach their chosen airport: Spirit Airlines charges for carry-on bags.
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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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The Parisian Métro station names, interpreted literally in photographs
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Janol Apin is a brilliantly creative photographer with an eye for transit. He glanced at the Métro system of Paris and what did he see? Not merely trains and platforms but a whole world wrapped up in cultural imagination and his own lens. He shot a whole set of photos in which people acted out literal interpretations of the Métro station names. Would such a project work in the D.C. Metro?
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Metro versus the 1% at the Dupont Circle escalators
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Did you hear the one about the Metro rider who lost her $12,000 century-old ring full of diamonds and sapphires in the Dupont Circle Metro escalators? Alaina Van Horn lost it while removing a glove.
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WMATA's weekend begins tonight thanks to Veterans Day
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Happy Veterans Day from Metro! This November 11 be ready to encounter closed stations and weekend service work starting early for the federal holiday.
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WMATA.com: The evolving history of D.C.'s Metro website
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Metro kicked off its Internet presence back in 1996 and has evolved from a primitive and ugly website to a text-heavy clunker to the content-rich labyrinth of today. See how the web presence of one of the country's biggest transit agencies has grown up in its first 15 years.
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Metro history: America fears the Washington, D.C. Beltway
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What scared the editors of Popular Mechanics about D.C. and Baltimore transportation more than a quarter century ago? The horror persists even now.
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Zipcar and DDOT's tense impasse over D.C.'s $300,000 curbside parking spaces
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Why did the District Department of Transportation and the world's largest car-sharing company grow so prickly over the last year? The answer revolves around how the District charged for its 80+ curbside parking spaces.
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Transit Tuesdays: Our D.C. civic life officially happens online
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From the D.C. Council to DDOT to the Office of Planning, the District's government has shown its faith in social media. Yesterday's #SustainableDC Twitter townhall, hosted as part of D.C. Week, is just the latest example.
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15 miles/hour? Why we shouldn't lower D.C.'s residential speed limits
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The D.C. Council is considering a new law that would force us all to drive slower through the city's neighborhood. Of course drivers should behave more carefully .... but why don't we just enforce the limits we already have?
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Mysterious D.C. rampage leaves smashed cars in its wake
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Drunk drivers, perhaps? Roving midnight vandals? Someone who clearly needs to learn how to parallel park better? It's like a hurricane blew through the block.
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District bicyclists to D.C. Council: Yes, we need protection from angry drivers
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Today councilmembers heard from many of D.C.'s bicyclists about the failures of our roads — including the bicyclist struck in the well-publicized video of the Rhode Island Avenue accident. How should the Assault of Bicyclist Prevention Act of 2011 move forward?
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Metro history: The great bicycling renaissance of 1936
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The years of the Great Depression signaled the return of the bike in American culture. Why then and just how exactly did Hollywood play a role?
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What a brutal Metro fight looks like on the Green Line (video)
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Several young women swarm at two alleged thieves on a Branch Avenue–bound WMATA train. In the course of the struggle, people force open Metro doors and climb over the seats. See how the scuffle looks from a commuter's eyes.
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Barack Obama speaks at Key Bridge, outlines why we need good infrastructure
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As the president speaks at Key Bridge, the White House releases a report on all the good infrastructure projects that have happened across the country.
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What the Ronald Reagan statue at the DCA airport says about D.C. autonomy
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On November 1, the Reagan National Airport received a bronze, nine-foot-tall statue of former president Ronald Reagan. Yet the 1998 renaming of the airport and federally mandated renaming of its Metro station still burn some advocates of D.C. autonomy. Is the statue a slap in the face for those who fight for District representation.
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Spooky ghost tours in the D.C. area
CommentThere are lots of scary ghost tours all over town. Find out where they are!
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9/11 one decade later: Navigating transit amid disaster
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Disasters immediately create transit nightmares. We saw this with the recent natural disasters of the earthquake and hurricane. All thoughts turned to the roads and Metro trains — would people be able to navigate through the chaos to wherever they wanted to go?
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