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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

Hamburg's transport association is the model. In 2014, I visited Hamburg, Germany which has an amazingly integrated transit system with multiple modes--train, subway, bus, ferry--reaching hundreds of miles into two adjoining states. I note that GGW just wrote about this this week. German VV as the model for DC.

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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

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.