The Mid-Atlantic AAA today apologized for calling a local transit advocate “retarded” and comparing him to a Klansman. The apology was, well, pretty weak.
We’re happy to announce a new project to help D.C. voters get to know the candidates for the upcoming April 23 special election for D.C. Council At-Large: Let’s Choose D.C.
Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) hit back against critics yesterday over a plan to allocate free tickets for events at Nationals Park and the Verizon Center.
As we noted this morning, the Committee of 100 on the Federal City fired off a letter to Mayor-elect Vince Gray earlier this week asking that he sack Department of Transportation director Gabe Klein and Office of Planning director Harriet Tregoning. The committee, which is made up of 153 people who advocate for planning and development based on the “values inherited from the L’Enfant Plan and McMillan Commission,” argued that Tregoning and Klein ruled their roosts much like their boss, Mayor Adrian Fenty, had — without any concern for public input.
Photo by Tony DeFilippo Anyone seen one of these recently? No? Me neither. When a neighbor emailed around asking whether anyone knew where the fire hydrant was buried, it occurred to me that I had no idea — only my dog would think to notice that sort of thing. Someone else on our street remembered planting a tree nearby and did the good work of locating and shoveling out the fire hydrant. It seems…
Our friends over at Greater Greater Washington asked us if we’d point our readers to a little usability test they’ve created in an attempt to compare the old WMATA bus map with the new one. Metro apparently rolled out a new bus map recently without advertising it. Here’s what David Alpert says is different about it:The biggest change is in the color coding of lines. Before, lines got one of several colors to distinguish…
It might have made us say, “huh?”, but Metro produced quite a hubbub with its recent presentation on future solutions to the system’s capacity needs – turns out, the transit agency has some pretty major upgrades in mind. David Alpert, curator of the local development blog Greater Greater Washington and a former Google Product Manager, produced a map to display all the changes that WMATA wants to make. We took the chance to grill David…
