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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

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The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). It took them 5 years to get everyone in the same group, and to create a coordinated schedule and fare system. .

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Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)

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I wrote about this in more depth in " 6Ps and cultural planning and the failure to create a network of African American historic sites across the DMV " (2016) in response to articles spurred by the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. In North America, Doors Open Toronto is probably the biggest.

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

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Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate. Coordinating Parking/Developing a shared parking scenario One of the big problems with capitalism is every property does its own thing. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM.

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University of Utah University Neighborhood Partners program and community revitalization in West side Salt Lake City/County

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The author attributes Brookland's revitalization to President Garvey's efforts while I pointed out that the real estate development project he was inferring started at least 6 years before the president took office in 2011--the project starting delivering as he became president. are (or were) in economically languishing communities.

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

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A way to do this would be to organize transport associations in South Florida, Orlando, and Tampa, to coordinate transit services. It may be the best "in real life" example of the point I make about linking new infrastructure with complementary improvements across the transit network. There aren't plans to extend north up to Jacksonville.

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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

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Get the parks working together and coordinated. I think there are two different approaches that could break the logjam, one would be the designation of this area as a National Heritage Area , where NPS helps to coordinate a variety of federal, state, local and private assets in an integrated fashion.