What will you be doing in 2025? Maybe swimming in the Anacostia? Maybe still figuring out WMATA's budget and processes? Possibly seeing how affordable housing in Tysons has grown? We don't know. But you don't have to wait until then to read this week's top posts that tackle all those subjects. Enjoy!
By Wyatt Gordon (Virginia Correspondent) • December 16, 2019
Five years ago Charlottesville Area Transit (CAT) had a ridership of 2.4 million; this year the city’s transit expects to serve just 1.7 million riders. The system lost more than one-fourth of its ridership since 2014, and CAT’s new director Garland Williams says it’s in a “death spiral.”
By George Kevin Jordan (Editor and Correspondent) • December 18, 2019
Rising rent, limited supply, flat incomes, and other factors have contributed to the affordable housing shortage across the Washington region. Tysons, Virginia—with its towering office buildings and a median household income of $101,587—is probably not first place you think of to find affordable housing, but it is making an effort to provide more options.
By David Alpert (Executive Director) • December 16, 2019
Up to 68 Washington-area bus routes could face cuts in 2020 (and some could see increases), under a draft budget document presented to the WMATA board Thursday. At the meeting, various board members then proposed numerous of amendments, and the board ultimately put off any action for a month. What’s going on, and what should riders take from this?
By Wyatt Gordon (Virginia Correspondent) • December 20, 2019
“We cannot pave our way out of congestion.” With that declaration, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced a historic 3.7 billion dollar rail deal with CSX on Thursday that will allow the Commonwealth to drastically expand Amtrak and Virginia Railway Express (VRE) service over the next decade.
While some of us can’t imagine living without Metro, at one point in time not all that long ago it was brand new. This 1976 promotional video, via PlanItMetro, shows the system’s earliest days:
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