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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

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Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019. The Downtown Public Realm Plan is online now. From DC's Downtown Public Realm Plan.

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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

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Note that the original PL series on Silver Spring did discuss an intra core shuttle system to complement their parking structures and to allow for converting Fenton Avenue to a sustainable mobility corridor. But I didn't extend this tertiary transit concept to the transit sheds of other PL stations. Tertiary Network concept.

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Public sector customer service and the adoption of cloud technology

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When I think about how things have changed, I have to cast my mind back to 2005 when as a Civil Servant, I co-authored ‘Better Practice Guide- lines for Government Contact Centres. What have we seen happen since the pandemic? At the start of the pandemic, we moved 1,000 employees from the office to work at home within a 3-week period.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

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DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.) Extending the Orange Line west, adding four stations : Fairfax City/GMU; Fair Oaks; Fair Lakes; and Centreville.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

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In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. Master Plan contract, 2019.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

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Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). Vision Zero. Street design and pavements.

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

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Doubling down on place values " (2022) The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development DC (" Bowser, business leaders pitch $400M plan to fix D.C.’s Downtown brings $2.3