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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

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. 15 years ago I first wrote that WMATA needed to rebuild the regional consensus about the value of transit: -- " St.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety. Ward focused traffic safety programming.

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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

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Is separate from the annual appropriations process and is connected, in that primary funding source is the General Fund, but supplemented by other tax sources (special sales taxes usually), impact fees on new development, and transportation related funding. And the city and citizen-initiated projects use the same process, forms, etc.

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Managing Remote Work

First State Insights

She was awarded the 2015 Delaware Business Times Best 40 under 40 award for being one of the region’s “best & brightest young professionals” and nominated as a top 5 finalist for the 2019 “Distinguished Woman in Logistics” award.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., In terms of overall waste reduction planning, it's essential to include all properties in a jurisdiction within planning (" More on zero waste practice (and DC) ," 2015).