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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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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

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“I used to say that people went to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office with a box lunch and a copy of ‘War and Peace’ and hoped not to finish both of them before somebody noticed they were there,” Daniels said in a 2015 interview with Reason magazine. In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds.

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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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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC doesn't have the budget to be able to take on the full responsibility of WMATA, but that would allow it to manage it in a way that benefits the city. Many people make the point that lack of dedicated funding is why the system is in failure mode.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

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It is also singular that one of the first short, stubby minarets in Turkey (located in Izmir) was built 300 years after Sinan died in 1588. Select Bibliography of Sources on Turkish R/C Construction Practices Cogurcu, M.T. Construction and design defects in the residential buildings and observed earthquake damage types in Turkey.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

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Steve currently serves on the board of the Foundation for America's Public Lands, a congressionally-authorized non-profit working to support the mission and objectives of the Bureau of Land Management. Dr. Heather Wilson From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Heather Wilson served as Secretary of the U.S. AmeriCares, and others.