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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Though I am privileged to be the general manager, it’s your Metro, so please let us know how we can serve you better. I am empowering all staff members to own our service outcomes and to proudly represent America’s transit system. As you travel the region this fall, I hope you will choose Metro.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. The change is achieved through apomediation (bypassing information gatekeepers), and control now rests in the information itself, and how it is served up to its consumers (Alexander 2014). Journal of Emergency Management 8(6): 15-27.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2009 and a couple times afterwards, I said it was necessary for WMATA to rebuild the regional/metropolitan consensus about support for transit. DC doesn't have the budget to be able to take on the full responsibility of WMATA, but that would allow it to manage it in a way that benefits the city.

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