Jonathan Hale, whose “People’s Vision Zero” group does citizen crosswalk striping in LA, was detained and cited for vandalism today by LAPD. PVZ tells the city government who they are and where they’re planning to add a crosswalk. Say they’ll stop if the mayor’s office condemns it or steps in.

I wrote about a possible electric hydrofoil ferry service in D.C. (www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...) but a reader points out there was a hydrofoil on the Potomac back in the 60s - nixed because it "proved too fast for comfortable sightseeing." Doubt that will be an issue this time around.

Made some friends last night

New 8000 series Metro trains unveiled at Hitachi factory in Hagerstown, with the design chosen less than two weeks ago

On the inside, the new Acelas are very shiny and the WiFi appears to actually work

Unsurprisingly the third of these options was the favorite design for the Metro 8K series trains among the 20,000 people who voted. Was most popular with our readers as well.

If you see federal law enforcement with their faces covered at Metro/bus stations, that is against protocol. GM Randy Clarke said at MetroFest Saturday that he asked for no face coverings and got “no pushback.”

Unidentified federal officers were doing fare enforcement at 7th and H Street NW last night, per my colleague Jonathan Edwards:

Maryland breaking ground on first state “Pedestrian Safety Action Plan” project on MD-650, where 45 pedestrians were injured and 8 killed between 2018 and 2020 — eliminating slip lanes, adding lighting and raised crosswalks, slowing merge off Beltway.

Was excited to take the new D74 from Petworth to the Dupont farmers market. Unfortunately …

Capital Bikeshare is coming to Vienna with four stops, closing this gap (although density is still low out there) www.viennava.gov/files/d58750...

First credit card payments logged on the DC Metro

Experienced one of these for the first time this weekend! It felt like the future and like being on a really long bus

Playing around with the Metro Pulse app. It’s much better than way it replaced but not as good as Transit at integrating trip plan + etas, IMO

Finally caught one of these

New one to me - an Amazon delivery driver using a regular car with a little light on top. Has anyone else seen this?

I’m not looking at my 401K, but I did engage in a little panic buying

A little late but -- between January storm and this week's, the National Park Service acquired a small snowplow for sidewalks and park paths. Before they were using hand shovels and a small snow blower, which may help explain why some of their property in DC was never cleared in January.