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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

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Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. Coordinating Parking/Developing a shared parking scenario One of the big problems with capitalism is every property does its own thing. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM.

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Revisiting New Carrollton and the opportunity of transit oriented development: New train hall to be built at transit hub

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I've written so much about how Prince George's County, Maryland has been handed so many opportunities to reposition the county around transit oriented development, yet they've failed to take advantage of the opportunities time and time again. Gensler/Urban Atlantic). And it is a part of #12 in the action points list in the 2014 piece.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

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. -- " Funding WMATA by a regional sales tax ," 2017 Also see, " Creativity Helps Rochester's Transit System Turn a Profit ," New York Times (2008). urban form (urban design) dating from the walking and transit city eras of urban development, therefore supporting walkability, transit, and biking 3. The director then, Mark R.

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

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Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. My response was you don't develop such relationships in crisis, but when times are good, and hopefully, those relationships and funding streams can survive exogenous shocks. Step 3: Fix the Funding.

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

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Note that Atlanta, BART, and Miami had problems of their own--certain suburban counties refused to participate for both Atlanta and BART, and Miami's route planners designed the system to serve areas they wanted to develop, rather than to ensure that service was also provided to key activity centers. That could have been accomplished already.

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Missing obvious opportunities to strengthen rail-based transit systems: Philadelphia Navy Yard and improvements to the transit "network"/platform

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From a PI blog entry in 2015 : The Navy Yard development is home to GlaxoSmithKline, Urban Outfitters, a Marriott and about 140 other companies. Another two million square feet is slated to be developed and the previous feasibility study estimated about 8,000 people would use rail service by 2045. About 13,000 people work there.

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Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium

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From the article: The District is playing hardball in a dispute with the owner of Nationals Park, effectively threatening to shut down the stadium if Events DC fails to develop the commercial and retail space it promised before the ballpark’s 2008 opening. The Washington Post reports (" D.C.