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Great News for Chile

Human Transit

The implementation of Transantiago, however, was a disaster. When the system was turned on in January 2007, some parts of it hadn’t come together. In any case, the messy implementation doesn’t mean the reform wasn’t worth doing. Fast forward to 2019. Not enough new buses had arrived.

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Set the opening of the Purple Line as the deadline for the implementation of a full-fledged integrated Night Owl bus network for the DC metropolitan area. Ivan indicated that passengers do not just want information about where they are travelling from, but when they get there, they need the same consistently presented information.

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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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Medaglia was tasked by its then owner, Ascension Health, with closing or selling it. Instead, he emboldened the hospital's board to break away from the chain in 2009 and become independent. The facility is open six days/week, most nights til 9 pm, and is highly visible.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Third, was the pro-tunnel effort, which failed, and the desire to have a better connection to the Dulles Airport Terminal, more comparable to National Airport (" Winners and losers with the Dulles subway project ," 2007). Extending the Orange Line west, adding four stations : Fairfax City/GMU; Fair Oaks; Fair Lakes; and Centreville.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. By contrast, the median citywide assessed value of single-family houses built 2007 or later on unsubdivided parcels was $545,000.

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