Photo by IntangibleArts Heads up, Columbia Heights. You know that massive, $42 million publicly funded parking lot that’s been sitting largely unused underneath the DCUSA shopping center? It could soon be filling up with commuters from Maryland, thanks to a new program being offered by the District government. As the Washington Business Journal notes, starting this week, 350 spaces in the garage are being made available for daily and monthly parking contracts. Spaces in…

Photo by nevermindtheend You have to feel sorry for the 15-year-old son of Vienna’s Jenifer Joy Madden, who got outed by his mom in an op-ed in Sunday’s Washington Post for having only just now learned how to ride a bus.We couched it as another test of their mettle. After all, if these 15-year-olds could swing at objects flying 90 miles an hour and get whacked by titanium lacrosse sticks, they could walk to…

One of the biggest crime problems in the Metro system has long been thefts from autos parked in the lots at the end of the different rail lines. Thieves know that Metro’s large, outer parking lots are filled with cars whose owners won’t return until the end of the day, so they prowl them like kids in a candy store. Enter the T3, Metro’s newest experiment in increasing their police officers’ ability to patrol the…