Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 11, 2024
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.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 13, 2024
When I first saw coverage I thought, "what about the 2017" initiative, although granted it was before covid. is discussed by WTOP, " Metro’s future of bus service could bring new routes and end some familiar stops." And when thinking about writing about it, I remembered a bus initiative back in 2006 too.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 22, 2023
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.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2023
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. Cool train branding designs though for Tri-Rail. I have five foundational pieces on organizing transit at the regional and multi-state scales.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Then and now, jitneys (like ride hailing) are often seen as a substitute and competitor to public transit.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Creating multi-state regional transportation districts. For a time Transport for London and its predecessors produced great tourism guidebooks. I did collect a number of vintage transit tourism marketing pieces, in preparation. For example, a brochure from Chicago Transit Authority dating to 1958.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2.
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