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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Though I am privileged to be the general manager, it’s your Metro, so please let us know how we can serve you better. I am empowering all staff members to own our service outcomes and to proudly represent America’s transit system. As you travel the region this fall, I hope you will choose Metro.

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Strathcona County Blazing A PBB Trail in Alberta, Canada

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

The Sherwood Park News recently published an opinion article written by Strathcona County Mayor Roxanne Carr ( Heading into county budget 2017 ). Heading into county budget 2017 Today, council begins its formal budget discussions. Click here to view the full 2017 Strathcona County recommended budget. 23, 25, 28 and Dec.

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Why Strathcona County Council & Administration have Embraced Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

The process will provide valuable information that supports decision-making by directors and managers, enabling them to allocate or reallocate resources, based on each program or resource request’s alignment to strategic and corporate priorities. He can be reached at 780-464-8206 or by e-mailing linton.delainey@strathcona.ca.

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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

5. . -- " Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011 -- " One big idea: Getting MARC and Metrorail to integrate fares, stations, and marketing systems, using London Overground as an example " 2015 -- Will buses ever be cool? I note that GGW just wrote about this this week.

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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.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers. Some of these questions are normative.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Sixth, and belatedly, that the Silver Line taxed the system's infrastructure in ways that have made degradation of service quality standard practice (" More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core, " 2016). More network improvements.