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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. Mapping pedestrian, bicycle, transit and car accidents Lots of links within each section. Street design and pavements.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.)

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends.

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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The ten-year average from 2014 to 2023 was 6.4 Of note, during the height of the bubble (2005 and 2006), the average downpayment by an FTHB actually decreased to just two percent. A non-paywalled summary can be found at: [link]. In both documents, see the section titled “Financing the Home Purchase.”

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