Want to cross the street? At 78 crosswalks in Arlington, you'll no longer be able to do so without pressing a button as the county rolls back the automatic pedestrian phase activations it put in place during the pandemic.
Working the desk at Metro's Rail Operations Control Center seems like a stressful job. But a new change could make it a little less overwhelming by splitting up the system into four parts, instead of three. We wrote about the proposal in 2017 and now, four years later, it finally happened.
With new Census data out, we know more about where housing has been built in our region in recent years. Unfortunately, when it comes to the climate, not all the news is good.
Finally, it's called "public housing," but increasingly there's nothing public about who's building or running it. Nena Perry-Brown writes about rising privatization in the public housing space, and how it came to be.
By Stephen Repetski (Editorial Board Alum) • August 24, 2021
Like the control tower at the airport, Metro has control centers that tell trains where to go. On Aug. 22, Metro made an addition that will spread out the workload and make the system safer and more reliable.
By Nena Perry-Brown (Editorial Board) • August 26, 2021
Here is how the public sector shifted responsibility for offering “a decent home and a suitable living environment” for low-income families back to the private sector.
