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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. It took them 5 years to get everyone in the same group, and to create a coordinated schedule and fare system. . Hamburg's transport association is the model.

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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

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Contee, III, Chief of Police, Metropolitan Police Department  Matthew Graves, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Brian Schwalb, Attorney General for the District of Columbia Anita Josey-Herring, Chief Judge, DC Superior Court Linda Harllee Harper, Executive Director, DC Offices of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement and Gun Violence (..)

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Smaller cities lose out when it comes to business consolidation and headquarters relocation: WInston-Salem, North Carolina

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It also illustrates another point although the author doesn't mention it per se, about "doing versus coordinating." R&D functions and manufacturing proximity.

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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

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Get the parks working together and coordinated. I think there are two different approaches that could break the logjam, one would be the designation of this area as a National Heritage Area , where NPS helps to coordinate a variety of federal, state, local and private assets in an integrated fashion.

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

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Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate. Coordinating Parking/Developing a shared parking scenario One of the big problems with capitalism is every property does its own thing. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM.

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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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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. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.).

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

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My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends. Andy Byford.

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