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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

. -- " 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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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The director then, Mark R. Aesch, later wrote a book about his experience there, Driving Excellence: Transform Your Organization's Culture -- And Achieve Revolutionary Results.

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Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In fact, now it's slated for closure. -- " A positive deviance failure in Boston: Timilty Middle School ," 2022 What an incredible waste. Like my frustration with DC Government. After two terms, eight years, the reelected mayor is looking for innovative ideas? -- " I can't help but laugh.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). The Kerslake Report: An Independent Review into the Preparedness For, and Emergency Response to, the Manchester Arena Attack on 22nd May 2017.