This week we took a sobering look at unsafe roads in the region, from a woman struck and killed in Richmond to a map of pedestrian deaths in Montgomery and Prince George's counties. We also wrote about cuts to Marc commuter train service between West Virginia and DC. Finally, we gifted you a historical piece about the tunnels underneath Capitol Hill. You're welcome.
By Ellen Paul (Guest Contributor) • October 23, 2019
Leave those leaves on the ground. Yes, get them off the sidewalk and steps, where they are slippery when wet. Get them away from the door so you won’t track them into the house. Get them off the storm drains. Otherwise, let them be.
By Alex Holt (Maryland Correspondent) • October 22, 2019
This past August, the Maryland Transit Administration announced a plan to cut back all but two of the six trains which stop at the MARC Brunswick Line’s three West Virginia stations each day. The new schedule was slated to take effect on November 4 unless West Virginia pays the $3.4 million Maryland wants to continue the line’s current level of service. Now that deadline has been pushed back to the end of the month.
A sprawling pedestrian tunnel system under Capitol Hill allows staffers and members of congress to move underground between the office buildings, Library of Congress, and Capitol building. Today they are an integral part of security on the Hill, but when they were first built it was for a far less important reason.
Virginians will go to the polls on November 5 to select a new General Assembly and representatives for many local offices in our region and around the state. The high-stakes state legislative races will determine partisan control. Meanwhile, in Fairfax County in particular, at least half of the seats on the Board of Supervisors will have new members, and possibly more depending on what happens November 5. Here are our endorsements in contested races.
Greater Greater Washington endorses Virginia Onley for mayor and Mark Pierzchala, James Hedrick, David Myles, and Cynthia Cotte Griffiths for the other seats on the five-member City Council. All are running together as the “Team Rockville” slate.
