Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 19, 2023
This let the system get sloppy in terms of finance, budgeting, and understanding why "WMATA is so successful at funding operations from farebox revenue." But there are over 20 operators of the various services, including private operators of bus lines. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St. Step 3: Fix the Funding.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 11, 2024
According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). German VV as the model for DC.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Operating safely isn’t a choice. I guess WMATA still has this opportunity with upcoming 50th anniversary of the start of service--2026--to get their "stuff" together, rebuild the consensus, actually figure out how to operate the system, grow it, if possible, etc. We are keeping customers at the center of everything we do.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 18, 2024
Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 4, 2024
The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company. Additionally, the GSEs did not commercially operate like efficient and competitive business organizations. However, F&F launched a major lobbying effort and successfully defeated the legislation in Congress.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Many shifted to take out operations. The first time I wrote this post was in 2016, but I've never done it early enough in the month, when you can actually procure an item in time, without paying for expedited shipping. Of course, restaurants were decimated by the pandemic, many closed. Some were good at it, many sucked.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Sixth, and belatedly, that the Silver Line taxed the system's infrastructure in ways that have made degradation of service quality standard practice (" More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core, " 2016). Adding a Tysons tram system to that list.
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