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Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One overlooked segment in regional transportation planning is inter-city bus service/travel. Professor Joseph Schweiterman of DePaul University is rare in that he tracks this form of transportation and he wrote about it for MSNBC News (" Thanksgiving is a stressful time to travel. Why it may get worse for these passengers. ").

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Shop Talk at the Garage featuring Maria Roat and Renee Wynn

Microsoft Public Sector

Department of Transportation. Navy in 2007, with 26 years of active duty and reserve service, in which she obtained the rank of Master Chief Petty Officer, Information Systems Technician. Prior to that she served as CIO at the SBA and CTO of the U.S. Roat retired from the U.S.

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I worked on this 16 years ago. "Metro seeks development partner for Brookland-CUA Metro station"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And secondary markets get developed only once better sites are built out (" More about chain vs. independent retail in the urban setting ," 2007).

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Great News for Chile

Human Transit

My friend Professor Juan Carlos Muñoz Abogabir is Chile’s new Minister of Transport. He is a Bus Rapid Transit expert and an eloquent advocate for sustainable and just transport planning, and is also one of the nicest people I know. When the system was turned on in January 2007, some parts of it hadn’t come together.

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Prisons after COVID-19: A prison chaplain’s view

Open Access Government - Technology News

These seem to have become permanent in many places, not least because they also do away with the need to transport prisoners to and from court and the related costs and logistics challenges. link] incarnation-2007/ The post Prisons after COVID-19: A prison chaplain’s view appeared first on Open Access Government. References 1.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

About the same time, 2007, Dr Michael Leavitt of the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote: "We don't know when a pandemic will arrive. McCaw 2007. PLoS One 2007:2(11): e1220, 1-6. International Air Transport Association, Geneva, 14 pp. They also involve very high degrees of uncertainty. Mathews et al.

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Really great article on historic preservation (North Carolina)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Meanwhile, from the 1950s through the 1970s, his hometown had undergone the same kind of “urban renewal” that happened across the country with the help of federal Housing and Urban Development and transportation grants. As long as the building remains, you can continue to tell the stories,” Howard says.

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