May 20, 2008
Go Home Already: The Way We Roll
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>> Metro General Manager John Catoe is concerned rising gas prices may force more new riders on to the region's public transit system than it can currently handle. [WTOP]
>> "For about the past two weeks, clean, potable water has been cascading over a retaining wall at the foot of a hill below the Kuwaiti and Bahrainian embassies in the 3000 block of Tilden Street." [NBC4]
>> Sticky Rice is set for a soft opening this weekend on H Street NE. [Frozen Tropics]
>> A new condo building in Columbia Heights promises to allow residents to gain access to the building not with keys, but with their fingerprints. Prices? $374,900 to $989,000. Yikes! [Washingtonian]
>> "Week after week, month after month you keep emailing me about this property. Evidently, you're not selling units. That's because you're asking for too much money in a neighborhood that, though lovely, now has excess condo capacity. If you lower your price, I might buy one! And if not me, surely someone else will." [Matthew Yglesias]
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Seriously? ...Fingerprint locks? Anybody with spare time to watch Mythbusters should be in there in about ten minutes: http://video.aol.com/video-detail/mythbusters-fingerprint-lock/1994762767
(Spoiler: they didn't need the ballistics gel.)
Metro General Manager John Catoe is concerned rising gas prices may force more new riders on to the region's public transit system than it can currently handle.
Translation, I don't know why people would want to use something cheaper and more accessible than cars! Why would we want people to ride our subways?
So Metro opens doors, unless too many people want to use Metro. At which point it will close doors.
$989,000? In that part of Columbia Heights??? Um, no thanks.
Pretty much every time Jim Graham opens his mouth, it's about "encourage people to use mass transit." He's never met a problem mass transit couldn't solve. That, or pulling a liquor license.
So Metro can't handle more passengers. Isn't this what they should have been budgeting for, like, 10 years ago? Shouldn't they have been adding capacity at the core stations instead of chucking millions on a line to Dulles? Metro has needed a dedicated source of funding since its inception. Now the system is collapsing from it's own success. Those interstate gondolas can't come soon enough.
I want to know how they know the water is clean and potable. Or maybe I don't want to know.