Posts Tagged ‘bus’
Get On This Bus: Fresh Food for All
Here’s a heartwarming video for a snowy day.
Yesterday, the BBC ran a piece on The Farm to Family Bus, a farmers market on wheels that serves neighborhoods in Richmond, often in low-income areas, that don’t have easy access to grocery stores and quality, organic food.
The piece also highlights Josh Viertel, president of Slow Food [...]
If You Biked To Work, You’d Be Home By Now
‘Commute’
courtesy of ‘DaveFayram’
We all love to complain about our commutes– by Metro, by car, and by bus– and we all think that we have it worse than most people. Well, the folks at Bike Arlington think that biking is usually the most efficient way to get around in the city, and they’re willing to [...]
DC Mythbusting: Metro’s Most Crowded
‘good morning.’
courtesy of ‘volcanojw’
DC has a great Metro system: it’s (generally) reliable, clean, fast, and connects many major destinations in the city. But we love to complain about our commutes– being crammed like sardines on the train, being stuck in Metro stations so full that you can’t even get down the escalator to the platform, [...]
Power Outage Causing Metro Issues
Update: WMATA is slowly bringing back services. Metrobus fareboxes and bus radios are back in operation, MetroAccess dispatch and online reservations are working, and this morning I heard a public address system test. More info from this WMATA release.
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Metro to Pull In $25m for Ballston Property
‘The 10B’
courtesy of ‘Aaron Webb’
The Metro board is expected to approve the sale of the Ballston bus garage property for $25 million at their 9/24 meeting. At just over 4 acres, it will become part of the property that will be home to the new DARPA building. Check out the past WLDC article about the [...]
Superior Blockage
Superior Blockage Originally uploaded by brownpau
This is from yesterday afternoon. Hey Superior Tours of Baltimore, MD, thanks for blocking the K Street crosswalk to Washington Harbour so thoroughly that I had to walk about halfway to Key Bridge just to get around the back, where I was promptly blown with hot bus exhaust.
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“I wasn’t expecting to come home to a bus in my apartment.”
A Metrobus crashed into an Alexandria apartment last night. No one was injured as the resident wasn’t home and the driver had just offloaded his passengers due to a door problem — just before the bus started rolling away — but both apartment and bus appear to have been totalled. WJLA has more, and here’s [...]
More »Open Top: Closed Shuttle
From WaPo: Open Top Sightseeing, purveyors of double-decker bus tours, has suspended its Nationals shuttle service after two people were killed standing on the upper deck as the bus went through an underpass.
Condolences go out to the families of those killed.
It’s unclear if there was sufficient clearance for the bus, or if the two guys [...]
