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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 19, 2023
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.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 11, 2024
According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). German VV as the model for DC.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 18, 2024
Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. 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. Government has a bias for inaction.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
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). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Murphy, S., Proctor and J.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
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?” My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 19, 2023
DC's planning function and capacity has diminished with each mayor since Anthony Williams left office in 2006. And that's where the local government planning functions have opportunities. Maybe it was in stasis under Mayor Gray.) DC has plenty of assets. They aren't coordinated or leveraged very well. Elizabeths campus ").
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