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Washington Cherry Blossom Festival and event transit

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So that makes a chief element of that idea realizable. Photo by alphanumeric. Seeing the Washington Post article " 3 maps for getting to the 2023 Washington, D.C., Cherry Blossom Festival ," about getting to the Cherry Blossom Festival, I had a similar thought.

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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

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. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)

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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

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My overall take is that revitalization and commercial district success requires constant, ongoing management. But transportation is the biggest issue, better connections making it easier for people to go to other nearby districts, some of which (as I wrote about in the Eastern Market piece ) are more carefully managed to be constantly "on."

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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

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And there is a lot of work on "violence interruption." I go back and forth about it, but there is some potential there. And I don't see things changing.

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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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And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

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“Metro will be celebrating Independence Day the best way we can — by providing frequent service to help customers get to the festivities around the region and back home safely,” Metro General Manager Randy Clarke said in a statement. And absolutely that it is a key issue.

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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

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From " Intra-neighborhood (tertiary) transit revisited because of new San Diego service " (2016): Center City (DC) Primary Transit Network : Core of the WMATA system in DC (31 stations); streetcar system; Downtown Circulator bus service; foundational "main line" WMATA bus services; bus rapid/rapider transit.