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

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Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. The idea is that intra-district transportation, especially by SFH residents, could be shifted to shuttles rather than by car. Go to the grocery store, bring back your purchases, without driving.

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

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For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways.

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Washington Cherry Blossom Festival and event transit

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So that makes a chief element of that idea realizable. Photo by alphanumeric. Seeing the Washington Post article " 3 maps for getting to the 2023 Washington, D.C., Cherry Blossom Festival ," about getting to the Cherry Blossom Festival, I had a similar thought.

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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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From " Intra-neighborhood (tertiary) transit revisited because of new San Diego service " (2016): Center City (DC) Primary Transit Network : Core of the WMATA system in DC (31 stations); streetcar system; Downtown Circulator bus service; foundational "main line" WMATA bus services; bus rapid/rapider transit.

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Economic impact of big name concert tours: Taylor Swift in Philadelphia

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Again, I'd say a lot of hotel revenue and transportation (airline, rental cars, for out of area visitors) are captured by non local entities. Although other events also contributed to this, including the University of Pennsylvania graduation. SEPTA ridership was higher, and some food establishments had stronger business.

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

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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 (..)