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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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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

Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. The award-winning orchid curtain in the Exhibition Hall at Longwood Gardens' 2015 Orchid Extravaganza. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Another link.

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Transit safety and security: Broken Windows theory and reality | and the state of transit safety today

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

By spring 2024, the first four stations should be complete. Also see " Criminology and the Fundamental Attribution Error ," a speech by Ronald Clarke on the acceptance of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2015). Louis article (paragraphs reordered): Every aspect of operations was reexamined with an eye toward keeping passengers safe.