Posts Tagged ‘inauguration day’

Talkin Transit: Parking Power

DC Transit System Map, courtesy of Cowtools
So another Inauguration Day hype has been deflated. Metro announced that they’ll be opening up thousands of parking spaces for cars at all Metrorail stations (save one) for Inauguration Day festivities. The prophesied “parkapocalypse” has been debunked.
So what happened?
When setting up initial plans for January 20th, WMATA set aside [...]

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Talkin’ Transit: Woolen Wonderland

How much does a segway?, courtesy of Saff anna
Metro musings, charter bus parking, meter rates rising…five goooooold rings!
*ahem* ‘Scuse me.
So Jim Graham’s pushing to pop downtown meter rates to $2 an hour. Additionally, the DC Council is considering ditching the District’s long-standing practice of free meter parking on the weekends in the downtown core.
The rate [...]

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WMATA Talks Inauguration

Working better to serve YOU, courtesy of afagen
Metro dropped a press release today outlining tentative plans for Inauguration Day.
That’s right, “tentative plans.” Since we still don’t have any official word on expectations (ranging from the FBI’s 800,000 to Mayor Fenty’s 4 million), it’s kinda useless to plan anything at this point. But I’ll give Catoe [...]

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