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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And when thinking about writing about it, I remembered a bus initiative back in 2006 too. Provide integrated bus arrival and departure information screens at Metrorail, Light Rail, and MARC stations. People need information near their homes and local areas, not just in the centre of the city.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. 2006 and beyond, although what it's become is perhaps far beyond what I suggested, " Retail planning and Florida Market ," 2009. It could be on screens, as an app, as part of an integrated kiosk-information network. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time.

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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).

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Part 1 covers some general background information on GSEs as well as the extremely relevant precedent set by the reforms imposed by the FHFA upon F&F in reaction to the most well-known case where the public-private hybrid GSE design had quite visibly flunked. 20] The Federal Reserve Bank’s combined balance sheet in 2006 was just $.81

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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

The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. economy " Broadway News )./ Nationwide, attendees spent an average of $38.46