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If you're going to promote electric bikes at scale, there needs to be complementary investment in secure bicycle parking and charging

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bicycle Traffic as a system, diagram, German National Bicycle Plan, 2002-2012. It's more imperative with the focus on electric biking. -- " Bike to Work Day as an opportunity to assess the state of bicycle planning: Part 2, building a network of bike facilities at the regional scale ," 2017 Many communities, including DC (" D.C.

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Announcing customer and guest speakers for Max Peterson’s Leadership Session at re:Invent 2022

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Dr. Whitson, former chief astronaut at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), completed her first mission to space in 2002—with an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. She also served as the first female chief of the NASA Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston from 2009 to 2012.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In fact, light rail here in Salt Lake was spurred by the 2002 Olympics, it's a small system and doesn't go to all the places it should, but it's complemented by a developing commuter rail program, a dinky streetcar line on the south side of Salt Lake and South Salt Lake, and a decent enough bus system.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!: Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009.