Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 13, 2024
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 (..)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2023
The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. Cool train branding designs though for Tri-Rail.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Is separate from the annual appropriations process and is connected, in that primary funding source is the General Fund, but supplemented by other tax sources (special sales taxes usually), impact fees on new development, and transportation related funding. And the city and citizen-initiated projects use the same process, forms, etc.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Then and now, jitneys (like ride hailing) are often seen as a substitute and competitor to public transit.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 11, 2022
One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., But they aren't organized into an overarching association, in a manner comparable to how Germany organizes regional transport associations to coordinate the planning and delivery of transit services.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 28, 2024
European and US car sales peaked in 2019. The US developed a mobility paradigm focused on the car, killing passenger rail and local transit in the process, and mostly treats bikes as toys, not a mode of practical transportation, but the real way to think about is in terms of a homogeneous mobility paradigm overall. That is the trend.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
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." That certainly seems like an overconcentration.
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