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I can't help but laugh. DC Mayor's third term as a platform for transformation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But then I realized that's an affliction common to most of DC's elected officials, even her opponent David Catania (e.g., his stand on ticketing parents for a child's truancy or absence from school--see " Criminalizing truancy versus creating focused programs to address truant behavior ").

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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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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

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a Bike Expo in association with the 5 Boro Ride, which had more than 100 exhibitors and 50,000 attendees in 2014. Sometimes they're led by the elected official for that district. And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions. NYC sponsors(ed?)

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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.

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

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Also see " Criminology and the Fundamental Attribution Error ," a speech by Ronald Clarke on the acceptance of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2015). Which ought to be a lesson to police departments and elected officials deal with policing and problems and disorder in their communities. Other options.