Day: June 19, 2012

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Beginning tomorrow at noon, you can board the Expo Line for free at the newly opened Farmdale and Culver City Stations. You'll be handed a voucher for a free return trip at that time.

Hollywood is changing.

Last week, AASHTO, the national association of state DOTs, published the first update to its bicycle facility design guide in 13 years (available online for $144). Since many transportation engineers take their cues from AASHTO, there was an urgent need to update the 1999 guide, which failed to include many effective design treatments and promoted some standards that actually made streets more dangerous. The new guide includes some significant steps forward, but it still lacks the bikeway designs widely recognized as the best practice for making cycling a mainstream mode of transport.

(A letter from Donald Shoup on AB 904 to the American Planning Association can be found after the jump. - DN)

At this week's Metro Board Executive Management Committee meeting staff will present a report "on accelerated completion of gate locking."

Just yesterday Virginia was receiving accolades for its successful, bipartisan rail expansion efforts. But the praise is giving way to criticism today.

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill