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

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Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. This came up in an email discussion a few weeks ago, and I started listing what I thought should be the elements of an ideal TMD program. The lots are metered, the city collects the revenue, and maintains the lots.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

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This comes up because a building materials recycling and resale organization in Philadelphia, Philly Reclaim , is shutting down because it was behind in rent, has organizational management issues, and the building is being sold (" Tacony salvage shop needs to move by Monday. It’s giving away sinks, lumber, and more ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another aspect of the balkanized transit system in the DC area is that every jurisdiction has a different program for bus shelters--what Ivan Bennett, product design manager for the London bus program, calls "a lack of continuity." WMATA should upgrade its Metrorail station bus shelters.

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

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My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. Photo: Ryan Lynch, Orlando Business Journal. Petersburg Metropolitan Area ," 2017).

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Should transit on inauguration day be free (Reprint)

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(Reprint) ," Note: some stations will be closed within the National Mall area, and service will start at 4 am but "Everyone over the age of 5 needs a SmarTrip card to enter and exit stations." == The original post was from January 2, 2013, about 3 weeks before the Inauguration for President Obama's second term. Free transit on bad air days.