Steve Eldridge over at the Examiner notes that fewer Washingtonians are driving themselves solo to work than they were three years ago. According to the unfortunately titled “Preliminary Draft Commuter Connections State of the Commute Survey 2007 Survey Technical Report,” the number of those in the region driving by themselves to job locations outside the home was 71 percent, compared with 74.1 percent in the 2004 survey. This survey is put together by the Metropolitan…

Metro broke its all time annual ridership record, last week boarding over 205 million passengers since last July – a 5.3 percent increase from the previous year. Over the past week, Metro also recorded its seventh, eighth, and ninth highest ridership days ever. Officially, each of these records was attributed to baseball games. But The Examiner’s Steve Eldridge notes that those numbers don’t quite add up. Could it be that as D.C.’s population and…

The Washington Examiner’s Steve Eldridge, who writes the paper’s daily Sprawl and Crawl feature, kicked off yesterday’s column with some pretty bold claims about the D.C. government’s motivations when it comes to Metro. In no uncertain terms, Mr. Eldridge accuses the District of attempting to systematically usurp control of our regional transit system. Could it be that D.C. is actually on such a Pinky-and-the-Brain-esque mission to take over WMATA? DCist takes a look at Eldridge’s…

Over the past few months, we’ve noticed a direct proportional relationship between the price of gas and the absurdity of the ideas for reducing fuel costs coming out of our politicians. Our favorites so far have been the Oprah-esque ploy to give out $100 fuel vouchers (You get a check! You get a check! Everyone gets a check!!!) and the suggestion that maybe we should get rid of some of our environmental laws to…