The tourists are coming to Washington, D.C., and despite the recession I can imagine numbers will be high. Once you’re here and housed, it is a remarkably cheap place to visit with the leading destinations free to the public.
So I have a request of local residents and recent visitors: what would you recommend to other [...]
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I do not consent to being searched in Metro
O joy, o rapture! Metro has started random searches. Sounds like security theater to me, and I don’t intend to be a part of it. (Gladly, I walk to work and most shops.)
If you enter a Metro station where a screening is taking place — they come before the fare gates — you have the [...]
Making do with Mennonites
I haven’t been blogging since Hubby and I took a vacation this week to Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Ah! the food! Chow-chow, kraut, apple dumplings . . . and more meat than I’ve eaten in the last six months.
But people are drawn there also for watching the plain people — a distasteful act, I think, [...]
Evacuation!? No, a really useful bus map
A little lunchtime blogging, following a quick review of the news feeds. (DCist)
Seems Metro has issued emergency evacuation maps keyed to each exit for each Metrorail (subway) station. See each station page — like Dupont Circle — to download the PDFs. In each one, you see a map and landmarks for what’s in a quarter-mile [...]
We need transportation options
I want you to call your representative, or better call your representative’s legislative assistant on energy or transportation, and say you support the newly introduced H.R. 6495, “To authorize programs and activities to support transportation and housing options that will assist American families in reducing transportation costs, and for other purposes.” (OpenCongress, missing full text [...]
The limits to regionalism, opportunities of transit
Ah, another lost article, but more pertinent than ever. (I knew I had written it, but it was tucked away for the last two years as a “private” post.)
The de facto Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) church planting model of the last half-century is to follow the population to the growing ‘burbs, serving as regional centers. [...]
Slugging on the G Word
Slugging — a uniquely Washington, D.C. suburbs way of informal carpooling — was featured tonight on G Word, a show on the Planet Green cable channel. (It is also one of the better shows on the channel, which is much too absorbed with twee and fundamentally fake green habits by people with more money [...]
Rail happy!
House Resolution 6003 “To reauthorize Amtrak, and for other purposes” has passed the House. Since the Senate already passed an Amtrak resolution, does this mean it’s bound for conference? I’m too zonked to think straight, but I know I want this to be made law. (The President threatens a veto, but I don’t think he [...]
An idea for Maryland commuters
I want to talk about commuter bus service from the far Maryland suburbs and towns into Washington, D.C.
Today has been a bad day for the Washington-area Metro system, following a bad week. Today, an Orange line train derailed — no injuries, thank God — and last week downed live wires on the Orange line left [...]
We’re above $4 a gallon, if you’re keeping score
For the first time, the average all-United States price of a gallon of regular gasoline has risen above $4 a gallon.
For several months, I have been tracking the oil futures and spot markets. (My workmates can corroborate.) A couple of weeks ago, I added the pump prices, and this morning the United States reached $4.005. [...]
