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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

Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. It's amazing how much I've written about this topic, providing guidance for something that could have been great.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2. WMATA should upgrade its Metrorail station bus shelters (I know this happened at Springfield).

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. For years I've argued that DC should manage itself as a heritage area with or without designation. Another link. Many states including Maryland and Pennsylvania also have a local form of this.