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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Later, I realized that along the lines of thinking about transit as a network operating at different scales I propose a metropolitan scale as the foundation, usually heavy rail and railroad, and then center city and suburban (sub)networks within it. This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety. Ward focused traffic safety programming.

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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. My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. Start over.

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