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- Unsuck DC Metro shares WMATA response to rider complaint that tired grandma was forced to stand instead of sit inside the Smithsonian station during Cherry Blossom peak. “A suggestion for future events of this nature would be to perhaps have this senior in a wheelchair, which would prevent her feet from swelling as much, and provide greater comfort during her entire outing.”
- WaPo editorializes in favor of DDOT’s hybrid solution for streetcar overhead wires.
- Former Bruce Monroe Elementary site to be turned into temporary recreation park, featuring “two basketball courts, a tennis court, a large green space and community garden,” Housing Complex reports.
- AP via WAMU confirms that D.C. Council Chair Vincent Gray will today begin receiving $300 daily fines from DDOT for his still not properly permitted fence.
- Matt Yglesias takes issue with the makeup of the D.C. Zoning Commission: “… forty percent of the members of the Zoning Commission are not in any way accountable to the residents of the city! People sometimes take DC’s quest for voting rights and self-government to be a kind of sideshow, or just a cynical plot to elect another House Democrat. But this kind of thing matters in real people’s real lives.”
- And at Manifest Density, Tom articulates what we’re all feeling after the death of Constance Holden: “I’m sorry to be upset by this, because I know this city is filled with suffering that I easily shrug off. It’s stupid that I feel angry just because she and I got to work the same way. But I am angry. Because people online are blaming the victim. Because the security equipment used to protect our leaders has continued to grow even as the threats they face have withered. Mostly because it could easily have been me, or someone I know.”
