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DDOT Presents Expanded Streetcar Concept
October 24, 2009 – 12:44 am | No Comment
DDOT Presents Expanded Streetcar Concept

Transit vehicles purchased and stored in the Czech Republic, an unresolved controversy over a 120-year-old federal law prohibiting overhead wires in the historic L’Enfant City, and tracks already being laid along H Street NE and …

One More Week to Submit Comments on K Street Transitway
October 23, 2009 – 5:30 am | No Comment
One More Week to Submit Comments on K Street Transitway

As we reported back in July, DDOT is taking public comments (due by October 30th) on the proposed alternatives for the K Street Transitway:
1) no build
2) a two-lane center busway and 3 traffic lanes in …

DDOT Unveils Union Station Intermodal Study
October 22, 2009 – 4:52 am | 4 Comments
DDOT Unveils Union Station Intermodal Study

Last night, DDOT presented the Final Draft of its Union Station Intermodal Transportation Center Feasibility Study, the culmination of an 18-month effort by the Department and its partners to assess possible improvements to the functionality …

TIGER Grants Not a Transit Panacea
October 21, 2009 – 12:25 am | No Comment
TIGER Grants Not a Transit Panacea

With much fanfare, transportation planners and local governments applied for the Department of Transportation’s TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) competitive grants program. Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood has hailed the program as “an outpouring of …

I’m New Here
October 21, 2009 – 12:17 am | One Comment
I’m New Here

Today is my first day at TheCityFix where I’ll be blogging full-time over the course of the next three months. I graduated from University of Maryland with a degree in Environmental Economics in 2007 and …

Bikestation Opens in D.C. to Warm Welcome from Bicycling Advocates
October 3, 2009 – 2:53 am | 4 Comments
Bikestation Opens in D.C. to Warm Welcome from Bicycling Advocates

The large bicycle helmet-shaped structure — a project that’s been in the works for six years — outside of Union Station finally opened to the public during a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning attended by a …

Bikestation Set to Roll Out With Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony on Oct. 2
October 2, 2009 – 12:15 am | No Comment
Bikestation Set to Roll Out With Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony on Oct. 2

Bikestation is set to unveil its newest bicycle parking facility outside of Union Station on Friday during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, scheduled for 10:30 a.m. The grand opening is hosted by Bikestation, the District Department of …