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DC Mayor Slams Predecessor On Transportation, Could Politics Be Involved?

(Washington D.C. - David Schultz, WAMU) A scathing report has just been released by the transition team of incoming D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray. The report is something of an indictment against the city's...

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The Revolving Door: Despite Ethics Rules, Former Metro Executive Now Lobbying...

Courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/waba/2511198017/(Washington D.C. -- David Schultz, WAMU) A private email obtained by WAMU shows that Emeka Moneme, a former top executive at D.C.'s Metro, may...

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Local D.C. Bus Service To Both Grow And Contract, Riders Not Happy

DDOT got an earful from angry riders of its Circulator bus service.(Washington D.C. - David Schultz, WAMU) The District of Columbia began operating its own local bus service in 2005. It's called the...

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TN Moving Stories: LAPD Experiments with Electric Bikes, Ray LaHood Wants to...

The LAPD is experimenting with electric bicycles. (Los Angeles Times)Ray LaHood wants to help resolve differences in the Dulles Airport Metrorail project. (Washington Post)DC's Metro has given Google...

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Top D.C. Transportation Officials Resign As New Mayor Struggles to Fill...

(Washington D.C. - David Schultz, WAMU) It's five months into his first term, and D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray still hasn't selected a permanent head to his Department of Transportation. Now, two of the...

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D.C. To Impose New Fees On Booming Intercity Bus Industry

(Washington D.C. - David Schultz, WAMU) The intercity bus industry is red-hot here in the Northeast Corridor. Almost a dozen companies have sprung up seemingly overnight to meet the demand for...

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New Director for DDOT?

(Washington, DC -- David Schultz, WAMU) DC's Department of Transportation has not had a permanent director since Gabe Klein resigned five months ago.  (Klein is now Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's...

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DDOT Makes Its Director Official

Terry Bellamy, the new director of the District Department of Transportation(Kate Hinds, Transportation Nation) DC mayor Vincent Gray today officially appointed Terry Bellamy the director of the...

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TN Moving Stories: China Halts HSR Line, Atlanta's Suburbs May Finally Be...

Bike to Work Day, 2010 (photo by greenperalta/Flickr)Today is Bike to Work Day.Atlanta's suburbs may finally be ready to embrace mass transit. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)China halted work on a...

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DC Giving Away Helmets to Capital Bikeshare Members

photo by sciascia via Flickr(Markette Smith -- Washington DC, WAMU) Members of Capital Bikeshare who don't have helmets could soon be getting them for free.The District Department of Transportation...

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Detroit Bus Strike Slows City, Wins Safety Promises from Mayor

A Detroit bus stop. (By Flickr user JSmith Photo)About 100 Detroit city bus drivers refused to work this morning to demand safer working conditions after a driver was beaten by a group of teens on...

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Why Don't More Blacks Use DC's Bike Share?

Capital Bike Share in Washington D.C.Virginia Tech has just released a study of casual users of Washington, DC's bike share system, and the numbers on African American usage are startlingly low.The...

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Hacker Charity Helps Detroit Buses Take Tech Leap: Real Time Arrival Info by...

A Detroit bus stop. (By Flickr user JSmith Photo)It may be called the Motor City, but a third of Detroiters don't have a car. They depend on the bus and it ain't easy. In the past few years, riders...

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Bike Advocates Wonder Where the Completed Met Branch Trail Is

More than two years after its southern segment opened, bicycling advocates are asking District and Maryland transportation officials why there has been no progress extending the 8-mile Metropolitan...

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Capital Bikeshare Expansion Halted By Parts Problems

(photo by James Schwartz via flickr)(Armando Trull - Washington, D.C., WAMU) A lack of parts is putting the brakes on the expansion of the Capital Bikeshare program in the District, according to a...

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D.C. to Start Testing Streetcars Next Spring

The first three streetcars to roll downs tracks in the District of Columbia since 1962 will be ready for testing next spring, DDOT officials said at a news briefing on Thursday.The district is building...

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DC's Capital Bikeshare Expanding by 30 Percent

(photo by Kevin Kovaleski/DDOTDC via flickr)Washington, D.C. will add 513 bikes to Capital Bikeshare this winter, expanding the nation's largest operating bike share program by more than 30 percent.The...

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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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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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Thousands Sign Up for New York City Bike Share in First Hours of Registration

UPDATED. Registration for New York's bike share system officially opened at 11 am Monday, and by 3 pm, some 2500 people had signed up. By 3:30 pm Tuesday, 5000 people had purchased $103 annual...

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