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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?

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-- " Getting WMATA out of crisis: a continuation of a multi-year problem that keeps getting worse, not better ," 2015 -- " DC area transit commission board member thinks he has a brilliant idea on how to fund Metrorail: sales taxes ," 2022 It's a shame that it had to reach the level of a super crisis to do anything.

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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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Also see: -- " To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network) ," 2022 Brightline as an opportunity to improve transit in Florida cities, using the Transformational Projects Action Planning Approach.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

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And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions.