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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? San Francisco Bay overnight transit map. And with that I had to laugh.

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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. This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."

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

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In turn that would help to spur development of the Pepco power plant site, which stopped producing electricity in 2012, and Benning Road further east, and Minnesota Avenue. From the WBJ : “I think that Chinatown will be fine even if the Verizon Center is moved,” said Ed McMahon, a senior resident fellow with the Urban Land Institute.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

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I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. Master Plan contract, 2019. Reading the article, I was struck about the level of business turnover--change is good, but there's a lot of lost capital in high turnover--in the main building.

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WHEN CORRUPTION HITS SMALL CITIES

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In that community, which is the biggest city in rural La Plata County and the location for a few key scenes in the film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, the longtime finance director, resigned in October 2019 and subsequently pled guilty to two felony charges related to $712,000 in embezzled funds.

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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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Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

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DC ," 2011, " Silver line reshaping commercial office market in Fairfax County ," 2015, and " Without the right planning "controls" you can't stop change: Loudoun County and rail service in Northern Virginia ," 2012). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before. Proposed Gatineau-Ottawa transit loop.