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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. The idea is that intra-district transportation, especially by SFH residents, could be shifted to shuttles rather than by car. Go to the grocery store, bring back your purchases, without driving.

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Bicyclist deaths-bicycle safety

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Cycletrack and sidewalk, Virginia Avenue SE, Capitol Hill, Washington DC As great new infrastructure is added, we need to redouble our efforts to actually shift people to cycling (I submitted thousands of words about this to the planning process for the Salt Lake City Master Transportation Plan.) So we need to address both. But most don't.

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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. There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) Salt Lake City Transportation Department pop up booth at Poplar Grove Park.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Admittedly, many transportation agencies are investing a lot in urban design, livable streets, sustainable mobility, etc. For links on TPAS applied to transit service, just look at the discussion and links in " Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando."

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

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Seattle's Feet First advocacy group is a great resource for such programs. I prepared a sample data-focused infographic that could be a kind of dashboard for ward-specific transportation as part of my interview. ANCs need transportation/traffic safety committees. It has since been significantly improved. And public health.