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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. Hamburg's transport association is the model. I first understood the DC area transit planning gap in two dimensions.

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A good as way as any to get conservatives to drive electric cars

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And the plus for liberals is that there are an increasingly number of electric cars from other manufacturers, manufactured better and often less expensive (" Tesla Is No Longer Alone in the Electric Vehicle Race ," TIME ). = -- " Electric bicycles as a quantum opportunity for transportational cycling: can e bikes be conquest sales versus cars? ," 2022 (..)

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Boston Orange Line closure and responses including promoting biking

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The cyclists’ union has been in conversation daily with City Hall and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation about the closure, said Eliza Parad, the group’s director of organizing. He was injured in a bicycle crash in April 2021 in the Boston area and only started biking again after a stint in the cycle-friendly Netherlands.

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Breaking from the binary: Enhancing gender and pronoun inclusivity in federal programs

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In 2016, James Shupe (formerly Jamie*) successfully petitioned an Oregon circuit court to become the first person to legally identify as nonbinary in the United States. The Department of State introduced a third gender marker , X, on the U.S. passport application.

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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. My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. Cool train branding designs though for Tri-Rail.

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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

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Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.

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Some transit matters in Utah

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Especially since the Utah Department of Transportation's study of Little Cottonwood proposes gondola service. From a transportation demand management and equity perspective, you shouldn't be required to have a car to be able to recreate. Photo taken on a bad air day in August 2021. I am fine with it. Free transit proposal.