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Denver and Rio Grande Rail Trail in Davis County, Utah: a great foundation, full of (missed) opportunity

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And yes, they have an Active Transportation Committee focused on developing sustainable mobility options.

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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

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). It's about speed versus access.

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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

The CFE Fund is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization; our programmatic, research and policy efforts focus on designing, embedding and replicating financial empowerment initiatives within the fabric of local government. Emily joined First Western in June of 2017 and currently serves as CRA Analyst. Emily Gardner, Senior CRA Analyst.

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Improve road safety by analyzing traffic patterns with no-code ML using Amazon SageMaker Canvas

AWS Public Sector Blog

This dataset is collected from Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Sub city police departments for research work and was prepared from manual records of road traffic accidents from 2017 to 2020. Import the dataset to SageMaker Canvas As a first step, download the transportation research dataset to your local machine.

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Enabling public-private collaborations to innovate on behalf of those facing food insecurity

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2022, the Biden Administration released a strategy to address hunger, nutrition, and health—but the federal government cannot make these transformative changes alone. Accelerating this work requires action and collaboration from state and local governments, the private sector, and more.

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Capital shallowing: the effect of disinvestment on government functioning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And the serious problems of the US public health infrastructure to respond to covid after decades of declining budgets (" COVID-19 and Underinvestment in the Public Health Infrastructure of the United States ," Milbank Quarterly , 2020). A third example would be the impact on local governments of declining budgets.

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Defining Community Engagement, Public Participation, Civic Engagement and More

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It includes: Sharing information and providing updates; Seeking feedback and gathering input; Dialogue and deliberation.” – City of Casey, Community Engagement Policy, 2020 With community engagement, there is a greater emphasis on a two-way dialogue or process. This article was originally published in 2017.