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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

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. -- " Getting WMATA out of crisis: a continuation of a multi-year problem that keeps getting worse, not better ," 2015 -- " DC area transit commission board member thinks he has a brilliant idea on how to fund Metrorail: sales taxes ," 2022 It's a shame that it had to reach the level of a super crisis to do anything.

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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

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Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

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And when thinking about writing about it, I remembered a bus initiative back in 2006 too. Another aspect of the balkanized transit system in the DC area is that every jurisdiction has a different program for bus shelters--what Ivan Bennett, product design manager for the London bus program, calls "a lack of continuity."

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

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Over time, as I wrote more about it, I realized it should be applied at multiple scales (" A wrinkle in thinking about the Transformational Projects Action Planning approach: Great public buildings aren't just about design, but what they do ," 2022). (1) Really, the revitalization management process is never ending.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

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Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2. DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. Extending the Silver Line to Leesburg.

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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

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Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district. For years I've argued that DC should manage itself as a heritage area with or without designation.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

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But I haven't seen a good transportation demand management study of hospital workers trip to work. (In In August [2022], the hospital system opened its affordable housing project Vía Sana in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. Transit adjacency is a plus for employee transportation. Continuum of care programs (relevant to both).