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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Common sense dictates that intercity bus lines start using public transit terminals with around-the-clock security, restrooms and indoor waiting areas. I have written about this from time to time, including problems with the set up at DC's Union Station, by comparing it to Toronto and Montreal (" Union Station bus terminal, DC ," 2011).

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How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs [link] accessed via [link] Accessed July 18, 2023. In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery. Main Street, Mebane, N.C. Source: Library of Congress – U.S. By 2016, it had lost that store.

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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

Officers Michael Mays and Daniel Ledman responded to conduct a residence security check. 731, 735 (2011)). 6:12-CV-1697-Orl-37DAB, 2014 WL 3908187 (M.D. 11, 2014); McCarthy v. Plaintiffs Jennifer LeMay and Courtney Livingston owned two pit bulls named Ciroc and Rocko, which were service animals for members of the family.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Common sense dictates that intercity bus lines start using public transit terminals with around-the-clock security, restrooms and indoor waiting areas. I have written about this from time to time, including problems with the set up at DC's Union Station, by comparing it to Toronto and Montreal (" Union Station bus terminal, DC ," 2011).

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. Civil protection, when it works, is a form of participatory democracy, in which the citizen has an active stake in his or her own safety and security. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The plans were not connected to anything.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

E-bike promotion through voucher-based discounts, as some communities are doing, including Salt Lake, might be worth doing by TMDs. -- There should be a program to promote high quality secure bicycle parking in large apartment buildings. -- Bicycle sharing is expanding. Bike theft is a problem in Salt Lake. NYC sponsors(ed?)