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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Intra-district shuttle systems Item # 5 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 2: Program items 1 - 9 ," discusses how to implement an integrated parking-shuttle system in Silver Spring, Maryland. Salt Lake already has a best practice program called Livable Streets , and they are implementing it across the city.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Park is implementing a wayfinding and interpretation signage system, so we have an opportunity to do some watershed interpretation. The state has the Jordan River Commission , and the advocacy group, the Seven Canyons Trust , works on creek daylighting issues throughout the County.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Instead, despite the adoption of the new and much higher official regulatory capital requirement in 2020, the agency just delayed the implementation of the higher capital level for two years. And will any change be implemented quickly or perhaps incrementally over several years? Of the current 0.46 percent versus 0.30

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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.

Public Policy Blog

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). Collective action (CA) can be defined as all activity of common or shared interest among two or more individuals (Olson, 1971).

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

She was a leading member of the area transit advocacy group, LINK Houston. Last fall, the Houston Chronicle ran an obituary on one of Houston's foremost transit advocates, " Janis Scott, Houston's 'bus lady,' arts patron and tireless advocate for public transit, dies at 73."