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Paris votes to ban electric scooters

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From " Parisians vote to ban rental e-scooters from French capital by huge margin ," Guardian: Parisians have voted to rid the streets of the French capital of rental electric scooters, with an overwhelming 90% of votes cast supporting a ban, official results show. Photo: Alamy. Reckless driving. Sustainable mobility framework.

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How to Effectively Plan Your Public Involvement Initiative for Transport

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In this new three-part blog series, follow Adrienne Hamilton’s journey to get a client-side view of successful project planning, launching, and reporting of a public involvement initiative for transport. Learn how you can also create positive project outcomes with your online community engagement platform of choice.

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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution

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-- " Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution " From the article: Paris will hold a referendum on 4 February asking residents to vote for or against a specific parking tariff for heavy, large and polluting SUVs. We invite them to use other means of transport, there are alternatives.”

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Washington Post editorializes about Purple Line cockups, inadequately attributes them to Larry Hogan

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when its administrators blunder through years of bad contracting and project-management decisions. The culprit for this latest glitch is the relocation of utility lines. Those decisions have bloated what was to be a five-year project with almost $2 billion in construction costs into a nearly 10-year, $3.4 billion undertaking.

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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

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The council, which appoints the board, voted unanimously in a closed session Tuesday to ask the entire board to resign, according to two people familiar with the vote. Because land use planning is about managing not preventing development, you're always going to get plenty of citizens calling the system corrupt. Sometimes it is.

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Five Placemaking Projects that Empower Community Engagement

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This plan will also be used to identify actions to manage change and help respond to challenges such as climate change, population growth and COVID-19. Along with the Fund It tool by using the posints system to get community members to vote on ‘Which draft criteria do you want to prioritize?’

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4 key predictions to watch for public sector partners in 2023

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Partners are seeing increased customer interest in solutions that support critical public services like traffic, voting, transportation, and waste management. Profitability and growth will increase most for partners providing managed services. We anticipate that security and compliance needs will continue to grow.