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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The transit network concept I worked out is based on how Arlington County, Virginia, in their 2005 Trasnportation Plan, defined a Primary and a Secondary Transit Network. The solution is shuttle/jitney service to and from stations, rather than building more parking. Tertiary Network concept. I extended the concept to multiple scales.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For frequent, new and visiting customers, we are piloting new signage, beginning with putting service information at street level at Metro Center. In the near term, we are supporting returning customers with more rapid social media engagement, and extended customer service hours Monday through Friday 7 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Sixth, and belatedly, that the Silver Line taxed the system's infrastructure in ways that have made degradation of service quality standard practice (" More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core, " 2016). More network improvements.

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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 could be on screens, as an app, as part of an integrated kiosk-information network. They still haven't.

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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)

trillion in 2016, which at the time was almost twice the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and became the largest source of GSE profits. This would be, in essence, an unwinding of the ERCF and a return to approximately the CCF that was officially in place from 2017 to 2019 for setting the average G-fee. Also, the 0.10

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