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WMATA Proposes to Stop Weekend Late-Night Bus Service
Yesterday, Georgetown Current’s Carol Buckley alerted GM to the draconian plan that WMATA is floating to close a massive budget gap. Among other changes, the proposal would stop all weekend late-night bus service between Georgetown and Dupont Circle and cut early morning service as well.
What WMATA is specifically proposing is the following:
- D2
- Cut off all bus service at 12:44 Friday night and 12:55 Saturday night (that’s four different buses each night).
- G2
- Cut off all westbound service from Howard at 11:44 Friday night and 11:47 Saturday night. Cut off all eastbound from GU at 12:18 Friday night and 12:22 Saturday night.
- Add one minute to morning peak headways and three minutes to evening peak headways
- Add a whopping 10 minutes(!) to all Saturday and Sunday headways (i.e., now buses will come every 40 minutes all-day instead of every half-hour). Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Pete Solecki.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The Hoya all over the slumlord crackdown.
- MPD stepping up patrols after series of muggings and burglaries.
- Benetton reopened.
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Georgetown Garden Tour Date Set
The Georgetown Garden Tour will be held on May 8th this year. This event gives you the chance to finally get behind all those secret garden walls you always crane your neck over (although GM should make sure you understand this event doesn’t give you carte blanche to just stroll into anyone’s backyard, no matter how awesome that would be).
Tickets are $30 if bought before May 2nd and $35 after. There will be seven homes’ gardens spread out across Georgetown open this year. The website offers descriptions of the gardens, but doesn’t actually identify which homes they are. See if you can figure them out: Continue reading
The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Antisocialtory.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Update on the Lanier-Miller battle royale over the Georgetown Mall.
- More from WBJ: Reviews of new west-side restaurants. (Sorry, but both links require a subscription to read the whole thing).
- Location of Georgetown House Tour Patrons’ Party set.
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Whither Citypaper’s Love?
It was just last year that GM noted all the ways that Citypaper loved Georgetown. Â Our neighborhood was all over their 2009 staffers’ listings:
- Second Best Bakery – Pattiserie Poupon
- Second Best Beer Menu – Off the menu choices at Birreria Paradiso
- Best Frozen Yogurt – T-Sweets (way to fend off all the fro-yo-come-latelys T-Sweet!)
- Best Salt Bagel – Georgetown Bagelry
- Best Wine List – Citronelle
- Best Cupcake – Georgetown Cupcake
- Second Best Cupcake – Baked & Wired
- Best and Second Best Jazz Venue – Blues Alley (read it to explain)
- Best Absurd Window Display – Juicy Couture
- Second Best Absurd Window Display – American Apparel
- Best Place to Buy Clothing to Make You Look Like a Cupcake – Juicy Couture
- Second Best Place to Buy Clothing to Make You Look Like a Cupcake – Betsey Johnson
- Second Best Place to Ignore the Recession – Hu’s Shoes
- Second Best Place to See Cherry Blossoms – Dumbarton Oaks
- Best Media Business Model – The Georgetown Current
How’d we do this year? Not so hot Continue reading
Filed under Around Town
The Morning Metropolitan
Rock Creek Flowers by Paul Frederickson.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- NBC4 mistakenly thinks all homes in Georgetown go for $1 million. They don’t.
- Stupid bus driver gets stuck driving up Bank St. (Although GM’s not sure where We Love DC got the Half St. name).
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