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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. Also see, " A thought about an intra-district transit network for Tysons ," (2020). inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). It's about speed versus access.

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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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Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.

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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 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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Out of region visitors spend on lodging, food, and transportation. But even before that I went back and forth on it. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. An important distinction they make is between in region and out of region visitation.

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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.

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

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Proposed Gatineau light rail loop to Ottawa to serve museums and the Byward Public Market is another model for intra-district transportation. Metro eyes possible future stops in Georgetown, National Harbor ," WTOP-AM).