Here's our roundup of must-read posts from the week:
This week's news of WMATA's proposed service cuts was a punch in the gut to people who care about quality transit in the region. The agency says it will have to slash bus routes, cut weekend service and increase headways if federal aid doesn't come to help fill the $500 million gap in its budget.
Despite transit's uncertain present, officials are still thinking about possible new transit routes for future years. One study could lead to a link between Montgomery and Fairfax counties, neighbors with no direct transit link between them.
Restaurants these days don't have the benefit of long-term planning – they're focused on keeping things going through the pandemic. We took a look at Fells Point, how outdoor dining there has been going, and what its future looks like as the weather cools down and cases go up.
The pandemic has us thinking a lot about public space — how it gets built and who it's for. Indulge your public space curiosity with the second article in our series on the Prince George's County Memorial Library System and learn about the period of time during which the county went on a building spree.
History has plenty of library-constructing visionaries, but it also has a dark side. GGWash hosted a discussion Monday on The Color of Law, a book about segregation and its roots in government policy.
By Stephen Repetski (Editorial Board Alum) • December 1, 2020
A draft budget unveiled by Metro on Monday would eliminate rail service on weekends, cut trains to run only every half hour, and slash bus service in half from pre-pandemic levels. The agency has a $500 million dollar hole in its budget to fill, and no forthcoming savior in Congress.
By Libby Solomon (Writer and Editor) • December 2, 2020
On a map, Bethesda and Tysons look like neighbors. On a good day, if you have a car and traffic is light, you can get from one to the other in 20 minutes. But if you can’t, or won’t, drive? Well, good luck… you’ll have to ride Metrorail all the way to DC’s Metro Center, then all the way back out to Tysons. The trip will take you more than an hour.
By Alex Holt (Maryland Correspondent) • December 1, 2020
It’s been five months since Fells Point dusted off its “Fells Point Al Fresco” series of outdoor dining nights from last summer and turned it into a daily program to help the historic waterfront neighborhood in Southeast Baltimore and its restaurants and businesses survive the economic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Although the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System is more than 70 years old, more than half of its branches were built in a span of just 16 years.
By Alex Baca (Housing Program Organizer) • December 3, 2020
White and Black Americans are segregated not solely due to choices made by private individuals, but because of policies created and maintained by the government itself. On Monday night, GGWash hosted a discussion of The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein’s book about government-sponsored, or de jure, segregation.
