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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). It's about speed versus access.

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A Conversation with Crystal Loffler, President of the Office of Community Renewal

Center for Community Progress

The establishment of the New York Land Bank Act in 2011 was big news. To kick off the LBI in 2022, HCR offered a non-competitive funding opportunity to provide baseline operations and non-capital funding for the land banks. These awards were renewable to offer up to three years of consistent operational funding.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

No matter how large a disaster is, it is a local affair because that is where the theatre of operations invariably lies. COBRA, the national 'nerve centre' for directing major emergency actions in the UK, is a relatively small entity that does not match up to the specifications of a well-endowed national emergency operations centre.

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Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

6 The regulations covering NMSs do not subject them to strong enough prudential regulatory requirements to ensure they can operate in a safe and sound manner even during times of significantly adverse economic and market circumstances. Inability to continue mortgage servicing operations. 23 Yet that 0.25

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A way to do this would be to organize transport associations in South Florida, Orlando, and Tampa, to coordinate transit services. It may be the best "in real life" example of the point I make about linking new infrastructure with complementary improvements across the transit network. There aren't plans to extend north up to Jacksonville.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

594, 607 (2011). 153A-256 authorizes counties to establish, erect, acquire, lease, equip, support, operate, and maintain a county home for “aged and infirm persons.” However, activities that satisfy the North Carolina Constitution’s “public purpose” requirement are not exclusive emoluments. See Blinson v. State , 186 N.C.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Economic Impact of Local Parks: An Examination of the Economic Impacts of Operations and Capital Spending on the United States Economy , National Recreation and Parks Association). Get the parks working together and coordinated. And if there is a lot of kid visitation, well kids don't spend money. I can't think of a worse walk.