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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

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In Brooklyn and parts of Queens, rent is at least 10 to 15 percent higher than it was in March 2020.) But one group has managed to hold off the forces of gentrification — and keep growing — for almost two decades. Suitable spaces are passed down, sublet, shared in secret.

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

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I argued it would have happened anyway. said "no, the Arena has had significant impact." The reality is that he was right (" More sports: sports-anchored entertainment districts and LA Live." I was too parochial. Look at all the people going to a San Francisco Giants baseball game, and taking transit. Mike Kepka, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002.

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another aspect of the balkanized transit system in the DC area is that every jurisdiction has a different program for bus shelters--what Ivan Bennett, product design manager for the London bus program, calls "a lack of continuity." WMATA should upgrade its Metrorail station bus shelters.

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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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They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. The extension to Orlando is opening later this year.

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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

Also see, " A thought about an intra-district transit network for Tysons ," (2020). And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework "). This concept eludes almost everyone who writes about transit. It's about speed versus access.

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

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And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."

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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

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Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020). This comes up in a letter to the editor to the Post (" Why I won’t take the Silver Line to Dulles ").