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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework ").

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. It's amazing how much I've written about this topic, providing guidance for something that could have been great.

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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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Get the parks working together and coordinated. Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Another link.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. To ride is expensive compared to the regional commuter rail in South Florida and Brightline has had serious problems with crashes with vehicles and pedestrians. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

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Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They aren't coordinated or leveraged very well. Some schools have invested in nearby commercial districts, like Catholic University mentioned above. The University of Connecticut (" UConn Decides to Build Its Own College Town ," New York Times ) and University of Maryland are trying to create town centers which otherwise don't exist.