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Transit equity day, Sunday 2/4/24, in honor of Black History Month, Rosa Parks, and the significance of transportation history to African-American History

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It's great that transit agencies are taking this step to link African-American and transportation history. Transit Equity Day in honor of Rosa Parks.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

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VVs, or Verkehrsverbund, are German "transport associations" that are organized at the regional scale to plan, coordinate, and deliver transit services in an integrated fashion. --" Verkehrsverbund: The evolution and spread of fully integrated regional public transport in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland ," Ralph Buehler, John Pucher & Oliver (..)

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Brightline West should also be used to transform public transit service in Las Vegas

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The first element is an integrated public transportation system. In Las Vegas it would mean bringing together the RTC, Las Vegas Monorail, and private services including taxi and shuttle services, Brightline West, the Nevada DOT, and probably the Airport and Convention Center in an overarching German style transportation association.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

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Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.

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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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Also see, " A thought about an intra-district transit network for Tysons ," (2020). Another related concept is intra-district versus inter-district transit (" Making the case for intra-city (vs. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). This concept eludes almost everyone who writes about transit. It's about speed versus access.