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Adrian Fenty isn’t playing around!
Without listening to anyone, asking for any advice or opinions, worrying about doing a thorough national search, he simply named Cathy L. Lanier the next police chief of MPD. Just like that. It’s his party, and he can do as he wants to.
With only one candidate on his radar, Fenty immediately filled the vacancy after former chief Charles Ramsey “stepped down.” She’ll be the first permanent female chief in the District, leading a force of 3,800.
A Metro Police Department car parked wherever in the h#ll it feels like it. “Fire? Whatever. I’m the law!”
Photo by Triborough.
I’ll admit, I’ve been warned before, but I didn’t heed to the advice. Stay out of the Metro elevators. Especially if you’re in a rush. At first I thought it was because some of them smell like human urine. But after this morning, I realize it’s because sometimes, getting out will take a while.
Congratulations to Adrian Fenty for his first victory after officially being named Washington DC’s next mayor. The councilmembers finally agreed to a plan to provide the 1,200+ parking spots needed to prevent being fined an obscene amount of our money.
Unfortunately, it’s a pyrrhic victory. To make it happen they had to allow above ground parking structures which are eyesores and nonexistent in DC. With the stadium area being planned as the nxt big thing in DC, it’s going to be built up with a big giant black eye. Two of them.
And to make it worse, they’re not being reinforced to support being added onto with future development and all we got out of the Lerners is their word that one day they’ll agree to tear them down and build something more conducive to what DC residents are used to want and deserve.
Anyone remember Jerry Maguire’s handshake deal with Cushman’s dad that was stronger than oak?
Reinoso, one of the first Hispanics to serve on the board of education, has a long background in public education, having volunteered to teach interview schools at Ballou and Spingarn High Schools in 1992.
Fenty’s team so far is starting to take shape, and it’s looking like they’re going to make the impact that everyone is expecting from Fenty.
One of the things that quickly earned my respect for former Metro interim director Dan Tangherlini was when he chose to use his own system to commute to work. But Dan’s not the man at Metro anymore, joining Adrian Fenty’s team. Instead, we welcome home John B. Catoe, Jr., (on the right in the photo above) who grew up in public housing complexes in Northeast and Southeast Washington and graduated from Spingarn Senior High School, to lead DC’s Metro system.
And he’s going to ride the system to work.
Dan Tangherlini has moved on to greener pastures, but Metro isn’t wasting anytime moving forward. Jim Hughes, Metro’s chief of operations, announced a plan to use the blue line more effectively by splitting its route to have some trains head up to Mt. Vernon station using the Fenwick Bridge (I didn’t know it had a name) that the yellow lines uses.
The suggestion apparently has been around for some time, but with 184 new cars coming, it’s not feasible to actively pursue such an idea. I don’t benefit from it directly, but I do know that Rosslyn station is busting at the seams. And getting from Columbia Heights, or worst PG County northeast of the District, to Ronald Reagan International Airport or anywhere southwest of the District serviced by the blue line is a joke.
I sure wish the proposed idea helped out with the green line in the morning!
Photo by The Anti-ZIM.
After a drop in attendance and one more year to draw in as many fans as possible before the move to the new stadium, the Washington Nationals dropped ticket prices for the upcoming season. There will be more than 13,000 tickets priced at $10 or less, 8,500 priced at $5.
This upcoming season will be the last season played at RFK Memorial Stadium before the move into the new stadium in Southwest. The new ownership and the city council have been battling with ideas for the parking arrangements already with the ownership worried that without adequate parking options, attendance will be too low to really generate any revenue.
Maybe with the lowered ticket prices and maybe a winning team next year, attendance will rise and some serious development can get started and transform the area into an area where people will actually go and spend some money.
Have you been down there recently?
Well, it’s now officially official.
Adrian Fenty will be the next mayor of Washington, DC. And so far, everything I’ve heard, read and seen about what to expect has been impressive. Fenty is a different kind of mayor and it’s exciting to see that a major change is coming.
And he’s not coming alone. After pulling off a coup d’etat by luring Dan Tangherlini away from Metro and retaining Tene Dolphin as his chief of staff, he named the city’s attorney general and his general counsel and both bring an impressive background.
Linda Singer, a Harvard Law School graduate, oversees 18 offices and 70 staff members for Appleseed, a nonprofit organization dedicated to social causes. Peter J. Nickles, who practices corporate law, has also been known to do pro bono work for those who normally wouldn’t be able to receive his level of counsel.
Photo of the new Air Force Memorial by claudiabeatriz
Well, when he got to Metro, it was obvious he was on a mission. Dan Tangherlini, while serving as interim manager, brought a sense of change, a feeling that someone is thinking about the riders and hope that one day riding Metro would be virtually worry-free.
And now, he steps down (in anticipation of Adrian Fenty being elected mayor tomorrow) to serve as city administrator. Though I hate to see him go ,considering I ride Metro every single day, I’m glad to see he’s going to be in a position to have an even larger influence in Washington, DC.
The National Mall welcomes its first African American monument when ground is broken next Monday for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The memorial will span four acres with a large stone with King etched into the side as the centerpiece on the Tidal Basin near the Jefferson and Roosevelt memorials.
Former President Bill Clinton, author Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Muhammad Ali and other dignitaries and celebrities are expected to attend the ceremony with over 5,000 others. The memorial costs $100 million and is expected to be completed by 2008.
There has been several huge donations recently, including FedEx’s $1 million last month and GE’s $1 million donation in August. There will be a donor’s wall in the memorial for donors who have given at least $500,000. So far $65 million of the required $100 million has been raised.
From the MLK Memorial Project website:
It seems like every morning when I set out for work, I find myself hustling down the street, crossing the street (along with everyone else) though the sign says “do not walk,” dodging the campaigners passing out flyers, flying down the escalator, zipping through the faregates, racing down another set of escalators or stairs just to get to the platform for the sign to say the next train doesn’t come for nine minutes.
Metro is helping eliminate that problem by allowing everyone to see when the next train will arrive in the station via the Metro website or even your mobile devices. ‘Bout time!
All you do is visit the Metro station’s individual page and clicking on the “Next Train Arrival” link. It automatically refreshes every 30 seconds so no need to worry too much about Internet drag.
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