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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

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But like all other such events which are overhyped: -- " Musing on the economic impact of cultural and sports events ," 2019 -- " Not enough time for a) 2024 DC-Baltimore Olympic Bid (to make sense) ," 2014 -- " Big sporting events (World Cup/Olympics), economic development and trickle down economics ," 2014 -- " Super Bowl ," 2016 -- " More need for (..)

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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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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.

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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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Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district. But even before that I went back and forth on it. It's pretty, but as the Sex Pistols said, "vacant" from the standpoint of connectedness.

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Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

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CMPO’s 2024 Safety Summit will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. hits 16-year high on traffic deaths ," Washington Post And because we don't provide actionable information and the structures to address the problem. in the Community Room of the Logan Library on May 16.

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