Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

Funny of course, because this is driven by the financial pressures faced by WMATA foremost (" Facing massive budget shortfall, Metro releases budget proposal that slashes service and increases fares ") but also other area transit providers, who've lost lots of riders in response to work from home. And financing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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." They charge two.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 11, 2023

From the article: a state law decentraliz[ed] the Chicago school system and giving parents and educators the power to review school budgets and hire principals. The publication put a spotlight on schools where reform efforts were working, as well as those where reform efforts were running aground.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It was supposed to go to Virginia Beach, but with opposition they cut that part from the project, expecting that once the system started operating, there'd be a clamoring to expand (" As light rail nears in Norfolk, Virginia Beach begins to reconsider previous decisions to not participate ," 2009).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

budget calculations but intentionally set things up so that the broader financial marketplace believed the government had an obligation to never let the two companies default on their debt; 15 this allowed the marketplace to largely ignore measures of GSE financial strength, in particular their capital ratios. Also, the 0.10

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