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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

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And it turns out I had written something similar in 2007!!!!!! -- " It's time to create the "Port Authority" of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties " That was true in 2014 and 2007, and is still true in 2022. The second biggest thing I learned was the need for focused and effective implementation organizations.

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

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WRT bus service improvement see: -- " Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012 -- " Will buses ever be cool? Set the opening of the Purple Line as the deadline for the implementation of a full-fledged integrated Night Owl bus network for the DC metropolitan area. But of course, conditions have changed greatly since then.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

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Third, was the pro-tunnel effort, which failed, and the desire to have a better connection to the Dulles Airport Terminal, more comparable to National Airport (" Winners and losers with the Dulles subway project ," 2007). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.

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The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

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OTOH, Pittsburgh has at least two national best practice examples of arts districts, one is the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust , operating Downtown and in other parts of the city (" The Howard and Lincoln Theatres: run them like the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust/Playhouse Square Cleveland model ," 2012, " Pittsburgh Cultural Trust maintains diverse real estate (..)

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

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From the article: “To be good in the business of football today — and good to me is not being good one year, but try to sustain it year in and year out — you have to understand economics and you have to understand value,” Kraft said near the end of his team’s almost-magical 2007 season. “I

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. However, the movement’s electoral success in 2010 did not carry over to the 2012 midterm elections.