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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " Route 7 BRT proposal communicates the reality that the DC area doesn't adequately conduct transportation planning at the metropolitan-scale ," 2016 -- " Reviving DC area bus service: and a counterpoint to the recent Washington City Paper article ," 2019 From the article: With additional (..)

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Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

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Entries more than doubled from the inaugural 2022 edition, with 334 nominations from 63 countries across six continents. Released in 2019, GOV.BR The awards champion practitioners, teams, and leaders who transform people’s lives by applying digital solutions and leveraging technology to reform the public sector for those it serves.

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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

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From the article: One study of Philadelphia’s Basic Systems Repair Program found that when even one home on a block received repairs, there was a 21.9% decrease in homicide rates.

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Some transit matters in Utah

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From the article: The “Cottonwood Connect” ski shuttle will provide passengers $10 round-trip rides to either Alta and Snowbird in Little Cottonwood Canyon, or Brighton and Solitude in Big Cottonwood Canyon, on a first-come, first-serve basis beginning Thursday morning. It's $10 round trip, which seems reasonable. Free transit proposal.

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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.

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US cities and homogeneous mobility (the car)

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I still remember a guy being quoted in a Boston Globe article, likening his use of a car instead of biking in the rain, as "a motorized umbrella." From the article: But an electric car doesn’t make sense for individual urbanites. European and US car sales peaked in 2019. He took umbrage with this. Few of them drive enough.

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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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Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. DC invests, half heartedly in people, not in place.