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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports, " Mayor Parker’s budget slashes funding for Vision Zero, a program designed to end traffic deaths ," that the mayor has cut funding for Vision Zero programs, which are designed to reduce traffic fatalities. Other cities have had mixed to negative results from similar initiatives.

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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

Funny of course, because this is driven by the financial pressures faced by WMATA foremost (" Facing massive budget shortfall, Metro releases budget proposal that slashes service and increases fares ") but also other area transit providers, who've lost lots of riders in response to work from home. It's about speed versus access.

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Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process allows for citizen initiated projects

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It made it very easy to come up with the budget.) That was a mistake. So the Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process: 1. Is annual, not multi-year. Is public. I was lucky in that the application I'm submitting had a cost category and percentage schedule outlined in a 2013 city memo.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

5 From 2014 through 2019, however, the average G-fee increasingly became based upon a well-established financial markets concept: 6 to generate, after covering expenses, a proper market return (also known as the “cost of capital”) on the capital that is required to support the risks being taken in the business.

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