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Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

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The Cache Valley Daily reports, " Local stakeholders to host transportation safety summit at Logan Library ," that the MPO there is holding a traffic safety conference next week, to support its plan to reduce crashes and deaths. CMPO’s 2024 Safety Summit will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m.

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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?

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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. 15 years ago I first wrote that WMATA needed to rebuild the regional consensus about the value of transit: -- " St.

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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

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Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety. Ward focused traffic safety programming.

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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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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. Cool train branding designs though for Tri-Rail. I have five foundational pieces on organizing transit at the regional and multi-state scales.

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Revisiting New Carrollton and the opportunity of transit oriented development: New train hall to be built at transit hub

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On an e-list there's been a discussion of suburban TOD and someone mentioned this journal article, " Seven American TODs: Good practices for urban design in Transit-Oriented Development projects ," Journal of Transport and Land Use , 2008.) And it is a part of #12 in the action points list in the 2014 piece. I hope they read it.)

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

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This would provide Metrorail service to the New York Avenue corridor, if somewhat circuitous, and could also connect to a new infill New York Avenue station on the MARC passenger rail system (" One big idea: Getting MARC and Metrorail to integrate fares, stations, and marketing systems, using London Overground as an example ," 2015).

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

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First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before. mile distance.