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

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At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM.

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Bicycling promotion at the neighborhood scale

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In " Making cycling irresistible in DC 2.0 " (2008) and " Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the action planning method " (2010), I mentioned the need to promote bicycling at the neighborhood scale, to increase biking take up. Too many people think biking is recreational or a joke in terms of sustainable mobility.

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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

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Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. Like many cities, Salt Lake is a leader in trying to balance the modes with a renewed focus on sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit. Minneapolis Star-Tribune photo. People hanging out in a parklet.

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

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RTS did this when they were successful, so that when the 2008 recession hit, they were well placed to operate and survive financial setbacks that crippled other transit authorities who were not as well situated. The director then, Mark R. But it is also a management failure of local government. historic architecture 2.

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

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When I worked for Baltimore County in FY2010, as a bicycle and pedestrian planner, simultaneously the master plan update was going on, and I was asked to submit a briefing paper on transit and sustainable mobility. Had I known that at the time, I would have suggested that too. 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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Third, fwiw, the Metrorail system and Prince George's County have failed similarly in terms of planning for high frequency transit service to the National Harbor development (" Backwardness of transportation and land use planning: National Harbor, Prince George's County, Maryland | Why isn't high capacity transit access required from the outset? ").

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

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1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., Transformational Projects Action Planning. They remade it into a full park circle. Design Method rather than Rational Planning 2.