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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. That money provides a base level of support independent of fare revenues and government appropriations. It's probably too little too late.

2008 52
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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Regardless of Rahm Emanuel's point about not wasting crises , my observation is that governments aren't good at decision making generally, and are particularly bad during crises. But if the federal government refused to participate, it would significantly reduce the revenues from it. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St.

2006 52
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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The question of how best to fund Metro is an important one that requires thought leadership and extensive community input. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

2009 52
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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To me, government is more about denying, saying no. From " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC ": Government has a bias for inaction*. A key point in the iterative improvement of my writings on Vision Zero is focusing initiatives in terms of the "6 E's" of sustainable mobility planning (" Updating Vision Zero approaches ," 2016).

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. WMATA's 2005 study, Development-Related Ridership Survey , found significant car trip reduction associated with the buildings in Metrorail station catchment areas, even in areas outside the core.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. It's like, how good do you think DC government as an entity is at marketing now? They still haven't. Extend hours.

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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)

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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