D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) says that a set of proposed rules would unfairly target app-based hailing services and stifle innovation in the city's taxicab industry.
Hailing a cab and paying your fare these days takes little more than a smart phone, but new app-based services are saying that D.C. is smothering their businesses with regulations.
A hearing on D.C. taxicab safety prompted calls for plexiglass dividers to protect drivers from passengers and more efforts to allow passengers to file complaints against scofflaw drivers.
Maryland officials say they need to cut bus service on the Intercounty Connector because few people use them, but critics say that traffic numbers show that the roadway wasn't really needed to begin with.
Hundreds of residents packed an auditorium in Manassas on Monday night to express their concerns with a proposed north-south roadway connecting Prince William and Loudoun counties.