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MAY 13, 2024

When I first saw coverage I thought, "what about the 2017" initiative, although granted it was before covid. And when thinking about writing about it, I remembered a bus initiative back in 2006 too. is discussed by WTOP, " Metro’s future of bus service could bring new routes and end some familiar stops."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

My mobility shed/mobilityshed and transit shed entry dates to 2006, " Updating the mobilityshed / mobility shed concept." A variant is that starting in 2006 I also wrote that the area's railroad passenger services should integrate into what I later called RACER, Railroad Authority of the Chesapeake Region.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

From the article: The capital improvement program reflects the region’s commitment to maintaining and improving your community’s $100 billion transit asset. 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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

From another NYT piece, " What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses ," about the article: That’s a lesson I took away from my reporting. TransMilenio bus routes. Photo by Julio Plaza for the New York Times. We live in divided, short-sighted times. Transformative projects like TransMilenio require long-term “cathedral thinking.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

| Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. DC invests, half heartedly in people, not in place. I visited it back then and wasn't impressed.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Another element that could be included, in terms of comprehensiveness, is ferry and water taxi services, even though they are pretty niche (" Metrorail shutdown south of AlexandriaNational Airport would have been a good opportunity to promote ferry service ," 2017). More network improvements. Proposed Gatineau-Ottawa transit loop.

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