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Women's History Month and urban planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The transportation profession tends to be dominated by men still, as it is heavily engineering based, but that is changing too. Increasingly, women are being chosen as transportation directors leading city agencies, for example in Pittsburgh, DC's former associate director of transportation planning, Karina Ricks, leads that agency.

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Should transit on inauguration day be free (Reprint)

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The latter, along with the opening of the Silver Line, seem to be the key events in marking the decline of the WMATA system in terms of service, operations, and ridership declines. In short, I argue that for transportation demand and system management goals, transit in the DC area should be free on Inauguration Day.

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The Iberian green industrial opportunity: Carbon capture and storage

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The EU Emissions Trading System regulatory framework The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) regulatory framework initiated its trial phase in 2005, initially focusing on the power and heat, refinery, cement, iron, steel, glass, and pulp and paper industries. Power generation is not included. percent, dropping to around 0.8 3 Assuming a 4.3

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To shift away some trips from the car, we need super robust transportation demand management processes

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The State Department of Transportation, which probably should be called the Utah Department of Cars and Trucks, has a proposal to widen I-15 through Salt Lake City to Farmington in Davis County to 6 lanes in each direction--it's four lanes now. Transportation demand management as a priority. I was talking with Suzanne about this and 1.

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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This let the system get sloppy in terms of finance, budgeting, and understanding why "WMATA is so successful at funding operations from farebox revenue." My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. But there are over 20 operators of the various services, including private operators of bus lines.

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. Red Line trains will operate every six minutes, while Blue, Orange and Silver line trains will arrive every 12 minutes. to accommodate crowds.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another example is the taxi collectif program of the STM transit system in Montreal , which operates at end of line stations. The transit network concept I worked out is based on how Arlington County, Virginia, in their 2005 Trasnportation Plan, defined a Primary and a Secondary Transit Network. Tertiary Network concept.