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.

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APRIL 27, 2023

During the planning process, there was a lot of tension around LRR over mountain biking, because it could get dirt into the water (" Loch'd Out: Loch Raven Reservoir MTB Riding ," BIKE Magazine , 2017, " Deal will expand mountain biking at Loch Raven Reservoir ," Baltimore Sun , 2017) which has been a problem dating to the late 1990s.

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

For more than a decade I suggested that DC create a Transportation Commission, comparable to the Zoning Commission, to provide greater opportunities for oversight and involvement, both for elected and appointed officials, and citizen members. The director then, Mark R. historic architecture 2.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

That's because with the way we've designed the transportation system for automobility, you can get away with minimal pre-planning, unless you're going to an out of the way place. MPOs and "active transportation." And yes, they have an Active Transportation Committee focused on developing sustainable mobility options.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

so it's a lucrative market for transportation services, especially if they are convenient and cost effective. RTC also runs a bikeshare program, manages certain intelligent transportation systems functions, and a number of game day sports related express bus services. The first element is an integrated public transportation system.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

I was surprised to see that Andy Byford has stepped down as CEO of Transport for London, as it was his dream job (" Ex-NYC subways chief Andy Byford quits London gig, plans return to US ," New York Post ). Andy Byford.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 7, 2023

In 2018, I had a meeting and walking tour of part of London with Ivan Bennett, who had been product design manager for the London bus system--it was a fabulous experience, about 6 hours. -- " Thinking systematically about bus transit service improvements: spurred by Columbia SC, Edmonton AB, and Baltimore ," 2017 -- " Branding's (NOT) All You Need (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

On an e-list there's been a discussion of suburban TOD and someone mentioned this journal article, " Seven American TODs: Good practices for urban design in Transit-Oriented Development projects ," Journal of Transport and Land Use , 2008.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It's more imperative with the focus on electric biking. -- " Bike to Work Day as an opportunity to assess the state of bicycle planning: Part 2, building a network of bike facilities at the regional scale ," 2017 Many communities, including DC (" D.C.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 4, 2022

And these days the US Secretary of Transportation is pushing this as an environmental justice measure (" Pete Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in America's roads ," NPR). DC should get on the bandwagon.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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). Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. Moore-Bick, M.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

Level of service a s a public administration term The term Level of Service is typically thought of in transportation term is used to refer to vehicle throughput, functioning of intersections, etc. This foue-part series covers the gaps I've identified so far.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

For another, as I've written, the primary spending categories are lodging , transportation , and food and drink (hospitality). Most hotels are owned by non-local interest, same with transportation like airlines. Net revenue would be $7,700 per seat, still quite high.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

. -- Purple line planning in suburban Maryland as an opportunity to integrate place and people focused initiatives into delivery of new transit systems " -- " Quick follow up to the Purple Line piece about creating a Transportation Renewal District and selling bonds to fund equitable development ").

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JUNE 2, 2023

Transportation accidents. Earthquakes. Ice storms. Infectious disease outbreaks. Industrial accidents. Chemical spills. Structural collapse. Grid failure. Water contamination. Large-scale layoffs. Factory closures. Hyperinflation. Civil unrest. Mob violence. Mass shootings. 363) Social capital matters. It matters for economic development.

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

But it's a demonstration of a quirk in planning generally and transportation planning specifically. Mostly, a master plan only covers what the government controls or operates, and usually ignores for profit services, and often, franchised services.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 26, 2023

Instead of only profiting from in-ballpark sales, the Braves essentially built their own city — known as the Battery and opened in 2017 — to give them a stake in adjacent properties, too. is the new standard.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Since that year, police records show, transit officers have dramatically shifted away from enforcing fare evasion across the rail and bus system, with citations and arrests numbering less than 300 last year, compared with more than 15,000 in 2017. Of that 2021 total, none took place in the District.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

So it's the "entertainment city" idea but extending it to many more elements, making work and other spaces "more fun," engaging and active.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 18, 2022

These attacks, and others going back as far as 2017, attributed to Russia by the CIA , have shut down airports, banks, government ministries and even radiation monitoring at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A chilling reminder of the damage a determined state actor can cause.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I suggested many things over the years including: -- creating a transportation management district for the Capitol Hill area, serving Eastern Market. Leadenhall Market, London Parking, parking, parking: Create a transportation management district. Create a transportation management district. Stuff I suggested over the years.

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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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JUNE 27, 2016

It is your council’s perceptions of what they believe is most important to taxpayers in achieving our long-term goals and meeting the needs of our county as identified in various master plans such as transportation and transit, agriculture and others.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

It has altered transportation use and the daily commute. 2017) (“Local government property cannot be conveyed to a private party without adequate consideration, for to do so would constitute an improper gift of public property or the granting of a subsidy contrary to state constitutional constraints.”). Reynolds, Jr.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

AI and ML empower transportation agencies to extract valuable insights from their raw data collected using IoT devices like sensors and cameras, enhancing the quality of services. Download the transportation dataset to your local machine. Access to an Amazon SageMaker Canvas subscription. Access to an Amazon QuickSight subscription.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Also see " The nature of high value ("strong") residential real estate markets ," 2017. From the Smart Transportation Guidebook. The city’s Housing Department ran the data and found, at this early stage, the program is working in some ways but is challenged in others. I said, "no. It will happen in the high value areas first etc."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

While the concept was spurred by my writings on the Purple Line light rail system coming to suburban Maryland, -- " (Big Hairy) Projects Action Plan(s) as an element of Comprehensive/Master Plans ," 2017 but also best practice programs I've across and not always written about.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. Out of region visitors spend on lodging, food, and transportation. This extends to other public lands.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Admittedly, many transportation agencies are investing a lot in urban design, livable streets, sustainable mobility, etc. A big issue is that transportation agencies (and government agencies more generally), even very good ones like NYCDOT, aren't always that proactive, and tend to not have "a sense of urgency" when it comes to action.

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JULY 26, 2023

Barriers stand in the way of accessing resources; for example, many families lack transportation to get to a grocery store or food pantry. In 2017, Amazon was one of the first retailers to work with the USDA to build support for online utilization of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2023

And a general unwillingness by both sides to act as partners (" A Purple Line update: the downside of Public Private Partnerships" -- they are contracts, not partnerships ," 2017), ended up with the original contractor bailing out, leading to even more delays.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

“We are fighting perception, and you have to be aggressive, or it takes on a life of its own,” says Andrea Zopp, who was CEO of World Business Chicago, the city’s public-private partnership for corporate recruiting, from 2017 to 2020. “It It would be a serious mistake to move major entertainment venues to the suburbs,” Florida says.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

The University of Pennsylvania funded a school in the Center City, in order to stabilize the neighborhoods around the campus, to attract as new residents people with choice.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

4] The three levels of quality are described in a 2017 article by Mobile Home Living ( [link] ). [5] 13] One estimate is the average cost to transport and site an MH structure, which is not part of the factory-cost calculation but is needed to make the comparison more apples-to-apples. for MH versus $143.83 ” Page 2.

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