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Commuter Idle: Nearly 4-hour commute costs D.C. worker $1,500 a month

Roseline Gorantla commutes from the Philadelphia suburbs to D.C. Her morning commute the day WTOP shadowed her: three hours, 42 minutes.

Tags: commuter idle, MARC, Metro, Nuclear Energy Institute, extreme commute, commuter idol

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Montgomery County residents speak out on bus rapid transit

At a public hearing before the Montgomery County Planning Board Thursday evening, more than 50 residents testified about bus-rapid transit.

Tags: Montgomery County Planning, traffic, congestion, bus rapid transit

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Widening of U.S. 1 to ease Fort Belvoir commute

This fall, a project to widen U.S. 1/Richmond Highway between Telegraph Road and Mount Vernon Memorial Highway will begin to help ease the commute to Fort Belvoir.

Tags: sprawl & crawl, brac, Fort Belvoir, congestion, Chris Landgraf, U.S. 1, Telegraph Road

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D.C. parking ticket exposes pay-by-cell glitch

A system glitch in a pay-by-cell D.C. parking system left a Fairfax, Va., man the victim of an erroneous ticket, a WTOP TicketBuster investigation has found.

Tags: parkmobile, tickets, ticketbuster, ticket buster

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Purple Line open houses bring optimism for project

At an open house to update residents on the Maryland Transit Administration's Purple Line, project leaders expressed optimism that the new Maryland transportation bill could allow the 16-mile light rail line to open in 2020.

Tags: Purple Line, State Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, Mike Madden

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Woman gets other drivers' speed cam tickets -- again and again

Miriam Singer's license plate reads "MS," but the Maryland woman has received speed camera tickets in D.C. for "MS ALF," "MS G" and "MS MAD" in the past four months -- even though she says she hasn't even driven in the District.

Tags: Miriam Singer, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, speed cameras

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Prince George's to town: Take down speed cameras

The cameras were put up without the county's permission and must come down.

Tags: Fairmount Heights, speed cameras

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D.C. ticket dismissed after blatant error

An erroneous ticket placed on a man's car in D.C. last month left him scratching his head -- especially since the error was stated on the ticket itself.

Tags: ticketbuster, District Department of Transportation, District Department of Motor Vehicles, Mary Cheh, Soumya Dey,

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Pedestrian sting operations aim to lower death rate

Police are out keeping dangerous drivers away from pedestrians in a county with a recent rash of fatalities.

Tags: Montgomery County Police, Captain Thomas Didone, pedestrian safety,

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2 unauthorized speed cameras in Prince George's town

Two speed cameras in a Maryland town are being called illegal, and a Prince George's County official says they need to be deactivated and removed immediately.

Tags: Fairmount Heights, Fairmount Heights High School, speed camera, Susan Hubbard, Lillie Thompson-Martin, Thomas Didone

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