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From LAX to ONT: The Transfer of Ontario International Airport and its Economic Implications

The Lowe Down

By examining cargo volume, domestic and international passenger traffic, and the resulting financial implications, we show that the Ontario Airport has performed significantly better under local management. Until the recession, LA County managed ONT well and 0.26% more passengers were arriving at ONT every month.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate. In serious TDM programs there are people ready to help individual clients make the shift.

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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

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. I suggested many things over the years including: -- creating a transportation management district for the Capitol Hill area, serving Eastern Market. Stuff I suggested over the years.

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Change takes forever: plastic bag bans, liquor stores and crime

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC did that in 2009. I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban. There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City." increase in violent crimes.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. Lots of deaths. It's being built relatively quickly.

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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

For years I've argued that DC should manage itself as a heritage area with or without designation. Many states including Maryland and Pennsylvania also have a local form of this. Maryland's Anacostia Trails heritage area is just across the border in Prince George's County. National recreation area concept/the Anacostia River.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

This dichotomy and more importantly what tasks fall into which category of the dichotomy, has created a complex history of competing interpretations of the politics – administration dichotomy, noting that as, originally framed, it was intended to detach partisan politics and patronage from sound public management. Manager relations.