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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends. Andy Byford.

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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. It took them 5 years to get everyone in the same group, and to create a coordinated schedule and fare system. . Transport for London and SF MUNI also.

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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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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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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

| Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. Get the parks working together and coordinated. DC invests, half heartedly in people, not in place.

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Smaller cities lose out when it comes to business consolidation and headquarters relocation: WInston-Salem, North Carolina

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It also illustrates another point although the author doesn't mention it per se, about "doing versus coordinating." Illinois; Tennessee; Rosslyn + "The Airport Access Factor" ," 2017 Education. R&D functions and manufacturing proximity. Same with firms in Winston-Salem. -- " Do tax incentives pay off?

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

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According to the United Nations (UN) 2022 Global Assessment Report on Climate Reduction , worldwide disasters will get worse if current trends continue. In February 2022, deadly floods and landslides ravaged Petrópolis, a city in southeastern Brazil in the State of Rio de Janeiro. Preparing for the unexpected.