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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

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WRT bus service improvement see: -- " Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012 -- " Will buses ever be cool? From the presentation (" The Sign Design Society Event: Defining a City ," designworkplan) by Ivan Bennett, Design Manger for London Buses: One reason other systems have failed is the lack of continuity.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

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This is worth $20 million per year off football based on a study for the Buffalo Bills, it could be more for other sports because of more events. It mentioned how the RFK campus planning effort by Events DC did mention an arena, but the point never got much play. Because downtown D.C. has come back to life. Other areas too.)

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

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In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. At an event yesterday, I asked and they estimated that probably 10% or less of glass is recycled in the area.

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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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They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. They have branded special event transit service, provide service to certain airports, and the Port of Miami Cruise Terminal, etc. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways. 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

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Elizabeths campus ," 2018 -- " Part three: the potential for donations around an expanded program ," 2018 Freeway capping. DC 295 and 695 scar the East of the River neighborhoods. Underground them.

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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

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At the same time, new galleries, pop-up exhibits and artist-led events like Forest For The Trees are bringing fresh blood to the neighborhood and upending the long-held ways galleries have operated.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

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A key point in the iterative improvement of my writings on Vision Zero is focusing initiatives in terms of the "6 E's" of sustainable mobility planning (" Updating Vision Zero approaches ," 2016). One of the reasons for failures in improvement resulting from Vision Zero "initiatives" is the lack of a systematic approach. *