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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

When Mitch Daniels took office as Indiana’s Governor in 2005, one of the top items on his agenda was reforming the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). The number jumped in 2020 and 2021 (the most recent year for which stats are available), first because of COVID restrictions and then staffing shortages. Residents have noticed.

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Madison Wisconsin should be rethinking its pedestrian "district"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I wrote about Boulder's in 2005, " Now I know why Boulder's Pearl Street Mall is the exception that proves the rule about the failures of pedestrian malls." The lesson that I learned from the article about Boulder is that it isn't just about the design, and having lots of pedestrians, it's also about on-going management.

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I didn't know Cumberland Maryland "had" a pedestrian mall

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I've come to realize that the point isn't necessarily to have a long pedestrian mall, but to start small, where you can be successful, even with one block. That being said, I guess infrastructure improvements are necessary, and for the most part, they will be keeping the overall focus on walking, not driving. Flickr photo by Jacqui Trump.

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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)

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. This clear policy standard for setting the average G-fee was, however, thrown into some uncertainty in 2020. percent to 0.49

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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

. -- " Yard sign, Person running for District Six Council in Salt Lake using traffic safety as a campaign issue ," 2023 Transportation management districts. How to measure and benchmark traffic deaths? The issues are unchanging. Government has a bias for inaction. Planning for mode versus planning for place and livability.