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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I'd say definitely not, the ridership is abysmal. I hadn't thought about it, but maybe SLC is ripe for the double deck bus approach (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012) for rebranding and repositioning of bus service as sexy, even though the ridership numbers wouldn't justify it otherwise. Above: Multiplicity bus.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The parents have been hyper about speeding cars, and the neighborhood and our District 6 Councilmember is more concerned about traffic safety these days because a nearby elementary school had a traffic fatality last year (" Yard sign, Person running for District Six Council in Salt Lake using traffic safety as a campaign issue ," 2023).

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

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It’s through the strategy and policy produced by elected officials, that administrative professionals translate, create context for, and craft these campaign promises into actual deliverable results to the publics and constituencies. Overeem, Patrick (2012). Image: Wikipedia. Campbell, C., & Peters, B. Governance, 1 (1), 79-99.

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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

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But the district is well organized, and successfully campaigned for a more directly accessible transit station as part of a new line being developed to serve their area. Also see " Leimert Theater: Envisioning a Neighborhood Landmark ," KCET. Also see " Leimert Park plays to its own beat ," USC, and " Leimert Park: where does it go from here?

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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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. So a blog entry is better. It's amazing how much I've written about this topic, providing guidance for something that could have been great. Ward focused traffic safety programming. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.).

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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.

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Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. Social Media Definitions. In the past there was nowhere for this kind of sentiment to go.