transportation
Moonie Times Columnist Has Many Nuanced, Reasonable Opinions About Bikesharing
DC’s Capital Bikeshare program, for which you pay a fee to join and then ride bikes to and from docking stations across the city, is a popular thing that keeps enlisting new members and expanding. Its success is leading other cities, such as New York, to start their own programs. Now, as an earth-destroying motorist, [...]
Virginia Selling Off Naming Rights To Roads, Bridges For Pennies On The Dollar
Virginia’s General Assembly would like to stake out a claim to fame that maybe DOESN’T involve the terms “transvaginal ultrasound” or “state-sanctioned clinical rape,” for once this year. So now the esteemed legislators of the Commonwealth have decided that pawning off its roads and bridges for a few shekels is just the ticket for shaking [...]
Lil’ Chucky Schumer Proposes Adorable ‘No-Ride List’ For the Choo-Choos
Sen. Charles Schumer said he would push as well for added funding for rail security and commuter and passenger train track inspections and more monitoring of stations nationwide. When most people see news about a potential terrorist attack, they get a little scared and take a bit of solace knowing their government is aware of [...]
Keep That 9/11 Spirit Alive: Rent a Bicycle!
Post 9/11 blues? How do you bounce back from a weekend of such revelry? All the anticipation, the excitement, the furniture sales! Yes, it was quite the 9/11. But how do you keep that spirit alive? Perhaps with an election that will decide the fate of DC’s white population? Or better yet, will a new [...]
‘George Will’ The ‘Writer’ Is ‘Hackish,’ He ‘Basically’ Has ‘Brain AIDS’
Think respected conservative intellectual George “Dungaree” Will’s biweekly phlegm-hocks for the Washington Post are bad, but maybe not quite Richard-Cohen-bad? Well they are, and so are his Newsweek columns! Maybe. His most recent one tackles Transportation Reform. Will chastises Republican Ray LaHood, the Transportation secretary, for “wanting” to “fix” America’s “infrastructure” problems, which is his [...]
Metro Makes a Facebook Page
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority now has its own fancy Facebook page. Change has come!
Daily Briefing: Still Making WWII References
White House Fills Forgotten Vacancy
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