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Alteia and the World Bank assess and enhance road infrastructure data quality at scale using AWS

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Rural roads are critical for connectivity, transportation, and development. Photo credit: World Bank Transport Team 2) Road infrastructures connect households to higher quality opportunities for employment, healthcare and education. A road in rural Peru.

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Salt Lake City Weekly Gift Guide 2023 includes "community/government wishes"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

With regard to the last point, it's something I will be writing about. 11 years is enough time to be able to construct significant infrastructure.

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More remonstration about the molasses of change: Transit planning, Baltimore County, Maryland and Towson

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Baltimore Regional Transit Expansion Map, 2002. Caption: see below There is an article a few months ago in the Baltimore Sun , " Maryland transportation officials ask for public comment on potential transit routes from Towson to Baltimore ," that planners are suggesting that Towson be served directly by light rail.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Shouldn't an office of "planning" be advocating for the city to do integrated, comprehensive planning at all levels and working to improve how the city and the agency approaches and carries out its work?

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Biking to Work Isn't Gaining Any Ground in the US | Bloomberg Opinion

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bicycle Traffic as a system, diagram, German National Bicycle Plan, 2002-2012 It doesn't need to take 60 years. It's ready for a slight update because I have a couple more items. We spent 60+ years building a system of automobility. We need to build a similar system for biking. But it does need to be purposive.

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If you're going to promote electric bikes at scale, there needs to be complementary investment in secure bicycle parking and charging

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bicycle Traffic as a system, diagram, German National Bicycle Plan, 2002-2012. One of the biggest problems with cycling take up, besides the fact that it's slower, so longer trips are less likely to be capturable--even so, 64% of all US trips are 7 miles or less--is secure bicycle parking.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.