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A "Last Forest" Fights Off a Suburban Highway
The forest, as viewed from above, is a border between urban environments.(Washington, D.C. -- WAMU) A coalition of homeowners groups is ready to celebrate a victory in defeating a proposal to build a...
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Smart Growth Collides With Transit Planning In Alexandria
Alexandria City Council members voted for a plan to charge residents in the garage of this new affordable housing complex to discourage the use of automobiles.(Michael Pope, Alexandria Virginia --...
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Your Guide to Biking to the Inauguration
(photo by Martin DiCaro)No matter your mode of transportation to the second inauguration of President Barack Obama you will have to do a lot of walking, as D.C.'s police force will establish a large...
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Sec. LaHood Says Loan for Silver Line "Looking Good"
Ray LaHood, the caffeinated U.S. transportation secretary, says a TIFIA loan for the Silver Line looks like a go (photo by Martin DiCaro)U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood expressed optimism a...
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D.C.'s Pennsylvania Avenue Bike Lane Gets Presidential
Inauguration Day 2013 (image courtesy of the First Lady's twitter account)Monday's inauguration went off without any serious hitches. Sure, there's some Tuesday morning quarterbacking. It turned out...
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Former DC Airports VP Sues For Defamation
Dulles Airport (photo courtesy of Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority)The agency that runs Dulles and Reagan National airports is being sued by one of its former officials.George Ellis, a former...
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DC Commuters Want Less Traffic, More Transit -- And No Congestion Pricing
(photo by NCreedplayer via flickr)Commuters are skeptical that congestion pricing will reduce traffic in the metropolitan Washington area and raise revenues to fund transportation projects. Instead,...
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Alexandria To Consider Registration For Bicycles
Alexandria City Hall (photo by cliff via flickr)(Michael Pope - Washington, D.C., WAMU) Members of the Alexandria City Council are about to consider whether or not bicycle owners should be forced to...
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Metro's Expansion Plans Include New Tunnels
A scene from the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station during President Obama's inauguration in 2009. (Photo by owash via flickr)(Armando Trull -- Washington, D.C., WAMU) Metro transit agency officials are...
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A Pay-Per-Mile Road Tax Could Target Transpo Funding -- But It's Years Away
(photo by Richard Masoner via flickr)As federal and state governments struggle to adequately fund their transportation networks, a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax has potential to increase revenues --...
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Va. Gov's Plan to End Gas Tax Goes Before Committee
Workers complete one span of the track for the Silver Line to Dulles Airport. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is proposing a new structure to fund large state transportation projects. (Photo by Armando...
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DC Bike Advocates See U-Turn Enforcement as a Good Sign
The bicycle lanes in the middle of Pennsylvania Ave. are off-limits to cars (photo by Martin Di Caro/WAMU)Anyone making an illegal U-turn across the bike lanes on Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown D.C....
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Maryland to Raise Speed Limit on New Highway
The Intercounty Connector at down (photo by Jessica Jordan)The speed limit on Maryland's new, $3 billion highway will be raised to 60 m.p.h. by March 31, according to the Maryland Transportation...
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As Virginia Debates Transportation Funding Plan, EVs Put Gas Tax Under...
Chevy Volt at the 2012 NY International Auto Show (photo by Kate Hinds)As both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly prepare to work to find common ground after passing different versions of...
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Virginia Transportation Funding Plan Dies in State Senate
Virginia capitol building (photo by Thruhike98 via flickr_Governor Bob McDonnell’s five-year, $3.1 billion transportation funding package died on the floor of the Virginia State Senate on Tuesday...
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Purple Line Design Will Stop if Maryland Doesn't Get More Transpo Funding
The proposed Purple Line Route (image via Maryland Transit Administration)(Washington, D.C. - WAMU) Local officials are asking Maryland's Department of Transportation not to divert funding from the...
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Investigation: Washington Airport Agency Leadership Targeted Pro-Labor Board...
Dulles Airport (photo courtesy of Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority)(Washington, D.C, - WAMU) A former board member of the authority in charge of airports in the Washington, D.C. region is...
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How Hundreds of Passengers Got Stranded in D.C. Metro Fiasco
Metro passengers on a stranded Green Line train last month exited the tunnel through this vent shaft, in an open field near Anacostia station (image from WMATA)(Washington, D.C.) The Washington...
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D.C. Metro Employees Will Soon Be Able to Anonymously Report Safety Hazards
(photo by Susan Sermoneta via flickr)Metro employees will soon be able to anonymously report "close calls" and other safety hazards.The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is working...
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Virginia House and Senate Negotiators Strike Transportation Funding Deal
Virginia capitol building (photo by Thruhike98 via flickr)In a final attempt to reach a compromise on measures to raise substantial new revenues for transportation before the scheduled adjournment of...
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Maryland's Senate President Wants Gas Tax Hike
(photo by Martin Di Caro)(Matt Bush, Washington, D.C. - WAMU) Maryland Senate President Mike Miller wants to impose a sales tax on gasoline, as well as allow counties that rely on mass transit, like...
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Lawmakers Warn of Severe Air Travel Disruptions from Sequestration
The airport experience will get more aggravating if Congress does not avoid the automatic budget cuts called sequestration, three Virginia Democratic lawmakers said Monday at a news conference inside...
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City of Alexandria Joins Homeowner Battle Against Location of I-95 Ramp
Outside the Overlook community in Alexandria (photo by Martin Di Caro)(Washington, D.C. - WAMU) For the first time since they began fighting the construction of a highway ramp near their homes, a...
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D.C. Considering Lifting Mandatory Parking Minimums
(photo by vpickering via flickr)The District of Columbia’s Office of Planning is considering a proposal to potentially reduce the supply of available parking spaces in some neighborhoods as new...
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DOT Head Questioned Over Support of MWAA Leadership
After U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood praised the beleaguered Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority at a Congressional hearing last autumn, two Democratic members of Congress did a slow...
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Bicyclists in D.C. Lobby for Safety
(image by Katie Harbath via flickr)(Washington, D.C. -- WAMU) In the basement of a Lutheran church a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol bicycling advocates gathered on a rain-soaked Wednesday afternoon...
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Car Sharing, Transit and Bike Access Could Render D.C.'s Parking Minimums Moot
A parking garage in Georgetown (photo by AlbinoFlea via flickr)(Washington, D.C. - WAMU) Downsizing parking is necessary to reduce car dependency in D.C., says one real estate expert.Chris Leinberger,...
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DC's Metro Takes Silver Line Plans to the People
(Washington, D.C. -- WAMU) Metro is starting to familiarize its customers with the service changes that will arrive with the opening of the Silver Line out to Reston, Virginia, a suburb west of...
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DC Metro Says Fare Increase & Loss of Tax Benefit Caused 2012 Ridership Dip
Buying fare cards at Metro's Smithsonian Station (photo by Ian Muttoo via flickr)The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) says the one-two punch of last year’s fare increase coupled...
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DC Metro Wants Smarter Fare Card, Including FarePhones
(Photo CC by Flickr user Mr T in DC)(Washington, D.C. -- WAMU) Metro is working on a system that would ease the process of paying for bus or train fare, turning it into a tap of a smart phone or credit...
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Following Public Pressure, Metro Will Add More Bus Service to DC's Busiest...
Commuters at 16th and U Streets NWAdditional morning rush hour service is coming to Metro’s busiest bus corridor in Washington after the Dupont Circle Advisory Neighborhood Commission took commuters’...
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Infrastructure report card says $3.6 trillion needed by 2020
Former Pa. Governor Ed Rendell (Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in backdrop)The nation’s infrastructure received a D+, a slight improvement from the D issued in 2009, in an infrastructure report...
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Maryland's Future Transit Hub "Severely Compromised" by Construction Errors
Silver Spring Transit Center (photo by ThisIsBossi via flickr)(Matt Bush -- Washington, D.C., WAMU) An independent report on the yet-to-be-opened Silver Spring Transit Center shows the transit hub is...
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Maryland Taxpayers Won't Foot The Bill For Silver Spring Transit Center,...
Silver Spring Transit Center (photo by thisisbossi via flickr)Montgomery County executive Isiah Leggett is vowing that taxpayers will not be left on the hook for the problems delaying the completion of...
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D.C. Taxis to Take Credit Cards June 1
(photo by Rebecca Sheir)(Washington, D.C. -- WAMU) If the effort to modernize D.C.’s taxicab fleet has moved at a snail’s pace, the snail crawled another couple inches on Wednesday.Officials revised a...
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How a D.C. Suburb Avoided the Capital's Traffic Nightmare
Arlington's Wilson Boulevard and North Lynn Street at night. (Photo CC by Flickr user Mrs. Gernstone)(Washington, D.C. -- WAMU) While the District of Columbia grapples with proposed changes to its...
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After Objections, Va. Gov Amends Two-Tiered Transpo Funding Plan
(Michael Pope -- WAMU) Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has offered a compromise on his transportation funding plan in response to a legal objection by the state's attorney general. Virginia needs new...
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With Plans Drawn, Maryland's Purple Line Scares Some Business Owners
Map presented by MTA at Silver Spring Neighborhood Work Group for Purple Line(Washington, D.C. -- WAMU) On colorful maps spread out over long tables the planned path of the Purple Line, a 16-mile light...
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Dozens in Congress Press for Nat'l Bike and Pedestrian Safety Goals,...
(Washington, D.C. -- WAMU) The recent lobbying by bicycling advocates on Capitol Hill seems to have paid off.A bipartisan group of 68 members of the U.S. House, responding to the advocates’ safety...
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Contractor Responds to Reported Defects In Silver Spring Transit Center
(Photo CC by Flickr user thisisbossi)(Washington, D.C. -- WAMU) The general contractor leading the construction of the Silver Spring Transit Center is publicly defending itself against alarming charges...
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Distracted Driving Awareness Month Begins With Plea to Change Behavior
(photo by Jim Legans, Jr.)(Washington, D.C. -- WAMU) Safety advocates are pivoting off Distracted Driving Awareness Month to publicize the issue.Meanwhile, legislators in Richmond -- and push for...
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Maryland County Approves Millions More for Troubled Transit Center
Maryland's Montgomery County Council approved an additional $7 million to pay for construction work already completed at Silver Spring Transit Center, which is already two years behind schedule and...
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Why Tolls Will Be Waived On One Virginia Highway This Weekend
495, shown last year while under constructionNearly five months after opening, the operators of the 495 Express Lanes are struggling to attract motorists to their congestion-free toll road in a region...
View ArticleVIDEO: The First D.C. Streetcar in 50 Years Takes a Test Drive
Quietly and rapidly, one of the first streetcars that will carry passengers in Washington, D.C. in more than 50 years accelerates on a test track adjacent to a highway. Sleek and swift, the narrow red...
View ArticleDiscord Plagues Maryland's Flawed Silver Spring Transit Center
First it was cracked concrete, now it's a fiscal rift hindering the future of the Silver Spring Transit Center in Maryland. Montgomery County Officials and Metro leadership appear no closer to solving...
View ArticleDelays Persist on D.C.'s Silver Line Project
On the question the D.C. region is asking — when will the Silver Line be ready? — local officials could only provide a familiar answer yesterday: they do not know.“I can't give you a time because I...
View ArticleThe Next Generation of Coders
Communities that could benefit the most from technology are often the last ones to get access. Code for Progress wants underserved groups to take technology into their own hands.
View ArticleWhen Mad Men meet dark money
Money in U.S. politics was once a straightforward thing, but we're now in the era of dark money. The dollars changing hands run well into the billions, and corporations and hedge fund moguls spend...
View ArticleWNYC, Two Other Public Radio Stations Acquire Gothamist and Sister Sites
In a deal largely funded by two anonymous donors, WNYC is acquiring the news site Gothamist, including its archives, domain name and social media assets. The move comes as part of a larger deal...
View ArticleChecking into President Trump’s Washington DC Hotel
In 2016, the Justice Department alleged that Malaysian officials stole billions of dollars from their people and funneled some of it through the United States. Reveal teamed up with Washington D.C.’s...
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