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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Then the pandemic led to a supercharged rate of increases: prices went up by an unprecedented 40 percent in just the 2-1/4 years through 2022 Q2 (the latest full quarter available 4. Prior to 2013, when the first CRT transactions were done, this information was kept confidential. [11] This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

When Google Public Sector was announced in June 2022, it was a sign of Google’s strong commitment in serving the needs of U.S. military sensors, platforms, commanders, and operators in order to increase battle readiness and responsiveness. federal, state, and local governments, and education institutions. public sector customers.

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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2009 and a couple times afterwards, I said it was necessary for WMATA to rebuild the regional/metropolitan consensus about support for transit. This let the system get sloppy in terms of finance, budgeting, and understanding why "WMATA is so successful at funding operations from farebox revenue." But the funding won't support that.

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Red Line trains will operate every six minutes, while Blue, Orange and Silver line trains will arrive every 12 minutes. That's not unlike what I've suggested for the Inauguration (" Should transit on Inauguration Day be free? ," 2013/2016) and other super special events (" Washington Cherry Blossom Festival and event transit ," 2023).

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of Ackerman’s examples is the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), which hired IDEO in 2013 to redesign the school district’s cafeterias. Sometimes I tell the story of the first project I did at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a report on the presence of a potential carcinogen in alcoholic beverages.

2007 52
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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Operating safely isn’t a choice. I guess WMATA still has this opportunity with upcoming 50th anniversary of the start of service--2026--to get their "stuff" together, rebuild the consensus, actually figure out how to operate the system, grow it, if possible, etc. We are keeping customers at the center of everything we do.

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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

Also see: -- " To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network) ," 2022 Brightline as an opportunity to improve transit in Florida cities, using the Transformational Projects Action Planning Approach.