Policy Chats

APRIL 20, 2020

About Michael Huerta: Michael Huerta served as a former administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration between 2013 and 2018. Before being named Administrator, Mr. Huerta served as Acting Administrator of the FAA from 2011 to 2013 and FAA Deputy Administrator from 2010 to 2011.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

4, Will Employ 600 People ," WAMU/NPR, 2013): Georgia Avenue NW Fort Totten NE 50 New Jersey Avenue NW The store on New York Avenue never came to be. And it had one of the best transportation demand management signs I've ever seen in a retail store. They built three (" First Walmart Stores In D.C. To Open Dec.

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Elected Officials Laws Housing Transportation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 18, 2023

In the past, I've suggested as part of Presidential Inauguration Weekend, that transit on the Metrorail system and in DC should be free, if only as a throughput-transportation demand management measure. -- " Should transit on Inauguration Day be free? ," 2013/2016 Note that DC will be launching free surface transit later this summer (" Free ride: DC (..)

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GovLoop

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2013, at a time when few resources were available in the region for survivors of domestic violence, the tribal government began to address their needs more comprehensively. The Cherokee Nation is the largest tribe in the United States and has more than 450,000 citizens worldwide.

Housing 52

Housing Transportation Local Government Government 52

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The City of Kenmore, Washington was the second organization to implement PBB, along with the City of Bainbridge Island , and both have been practitioners since 2013. million will go to the transportation capital fund, $4.7 million, 10 transportation projects will be funded for a total of $61.2 million on transportation and $3.5

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Parks And Recreation Transportation Social Media 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., But they aren't organized into an overarching association, in a manner comparable to how Germany organizes regional transport associations to coordinate the planning and delivery of transit services.

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Parks And Recreation Operations Transportation Sanitation 52

The City Fix

JULY 13, 2023

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Development Security Urban Planning Public Transportation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

That's not unlike what I've suggested for the Inauguration (" Should transit on Inauguration Day be free? ," 2013/2016) and other super special events (" Washington Cherry Blossom Festival and event transit ," 2023). Transit financing My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. It's probably too little too late.

Transportation 52

Transportation Budgeting Operations Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Is separate from the annual appropriations process and is connected, in that primary funding source is the General Fund, but supplemented by other tax sources (special sales taxes usually), impact fees on new development, and transportation related funding. And the city and citizen-initiated projects use the same process, forms, etc.

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Budgeting Transportation Economic Development Public Works 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. is why I've argued that the DC area should adopt the German form of regional transport association (called a VV, Verkehrsverbund), which links planning, budgeting and operation into one overarching organization, even if many different entities provide actual transit service.

Transportation 52

Transportation Budgeting Operations Government 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

When I first was into the idea of reintroducing streetcars into American cities, I favored re-adopting the heritage streetcar vehicle (" A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea ," 2013).

Transportation 52

Transportation Communications Government Coordinator 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

I have many pieces on airport transportation related issues: -- " Manhattan Institute misses the point about the value of light rail transit connections to airports | Utility and the network effect: the transit network as a platform ," 2020 -- " Airport transportation demand management in flux ," 2019 -- " Transportation demand management, transit: (..)

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Transportation Housing Sustainability Management 52

Social Pinpoint

JULY 11, 2023

Since 2013, Social Pinpoint has grown spectacularly to become the platform of choice for comprehensive public engagement internationally. For more than 25 years MetroQuest has been at the leading edge of innovation and best practices for effective, inclusive public involvement for DOTs, MPOs, regional transportation agencies, and firms.

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Transportation Engagement Outreach Community Engagement 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 14, 2022

It's merely proof for what I had been writing on and off for years. -- " Misunderstanding Uber, Taxi regulation and what we might call the "Overground Economy" ," 2013 -- " App based ride services and creative destruction and plain old destruction ," 2014 -- " The false promise of ride hailing as a pro-city transportation mode ," 2018 -- " What a terrible (..)

Regulations 52

Regulations Campaign Transportation Laws 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 28, 2023

Especially since the Utah Department of Transportation's study of Little Cottonwood proposes gondola service. From a transportation demand management and equity perspective, you shouldn't be required to have a car to be able to recreate. I am fine with it.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Transportation Management Operations 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 19, 2023

Most of the development energy in Brookland has been west of the station and railroad tracks, on land owned and redeveloped by Catholic University (" Takoma's Brookland moment: some opposition to apartment development on the WMATA station site ," 2013).

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Development Transportation Management Urban Planning 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The group organized in 2013 to try to prevent the kind of displacement that has traditionally followed many Metro stations and new transit lines across the country. The study came from the public-private Purple Line Corridor Coalition, a group composed of government officials, community activists, nonprofits, companies and academics.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It definitely is an illustration of my point that bus shelters are "marketing touchpoints" of transit systems (" Arlington County's bus shelters and a public realm framework of quality ," 2013), and if bus shelters are crappy that communicates very clearly that the community doesn't value transit.

Communications 52

Communications Transportation Sustainability 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

The project took six years to complete, and the station opened in 2012, with full service in 2013. As part of the redevelopment plan, the U4 line was extended by about 4/10 miles with the addition of the HafenCity University station (the line has since been further extended). Conclusion. It's been 26 years.

Transportation 52

Transportation Development Economic Development Government 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 4, 2022

And these days the US Secretary of Transportation is pushing this as an environmental justice measure (" Pete Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in America's roads ," NPR). DC should get on the bandwagon.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Urban Planning Transportation Outreach 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

on H Street NE, at least pre-covid, 40% of people throughput was by bus, via 300 bus trips, it's tough to corral automobiles, especially because most of the city, except the core is shaped by the automobility paradigm (" DC as a suburban agenda dominated city ," 2013).

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Transportation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Development Transportation Government 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2023

Include transportation, arts and culture, and tourism planning elements. Getting the Inner Harbor right is an opportunity that will not come again in our lifetimes; it offers the chance to create an economic and perceptual transformation. Instead of a task force. Have an advisory committee with developers and key organizations.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Housing Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I suppose there are a couple more I should write, on transportation access (" Revisiting: Access to Theodore Roosevelt Island, a national park in Washington, DC ," 2022), on planning for multiple agencies owning parks in particular jurisdictions (" Federal shutdown as another example of why local jurisdictions should have more robust contingency and (..)

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Parks And Recreation Engagement Transportation Accountability 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

But these kinds of efforts are often criticized as inequitable ( Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities , Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara, 2013).

Public Safety 52

Public Safety Parks And Recreation Housing Campaign 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

Level of service a s a public administration term The term Level of Service is typically thought of in transportation term is used to refer to vehicle throughput, functioning of intersections, etc. This foue-part series covers the gaps I've identified so far.

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Parks And Recreation Public Administration Housing Sanitation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The Walking City urban form is the "urban technology" that supports active cities (" Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis" ," " Department stores are an "urban technology" built for walking not driving ," 2024). and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Development Parks And Recreation Housing 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 10, 2023

Obviously it's because most of the lines have minimal ridership.

Public Service 52

Public Service Regulations Budgeting Sustainability 52

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Corruption was endemic, from the bribes demanded by traffic cops to the kickbacks needed to secure government contracts. The public put far more faith in civil society than in official institutions.

Public Sector 59

Public Sector Government Leadership Accountability 59

Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 19, 2023

MC693865 — SharePoint Add-In retirement in Microsoft 365 >365 Days Since the release of SharePoint Add-Ins in 2013, Microsoft has evolved SharePoint extensibility using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) enabling you to write applications that can be used in Microsoft SharePoint, Viva Connections and Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 19, 2022

MC391952 — Microsoft 365 Assessment tool for SharePoint 2013 workflows available now! SharePoint 2013 Workflows platform was introduced 10 years ago. SharePoint 2010 Workflows was retired as of November 1st, 2020 with the notice that we would also retire SharePoint Workflow 2013 in the future. Microsoft 365 Assessment tool.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 20, 2023

As announced earlier, InfoPath Client 2013 will reach the end of its extended support period on July 14, 2026 ( link ), and to keep an aligned experience across Microsoft products, InfoPath Forms Service will be retired from SharePoint Online. This provides an equivalent flow to open messages protected using Office 365 Message Encryption.

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Public Sector Security Management Communications 97

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This entry became very long, so I broke it up. We mostly dealt with drug and gun crimes, but got robberies, assaults, murder, etc.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 7, 2025

Obviously it's because most of the lines have minimal ridership.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Transportation 52

The City Fix

JUNE 11, 2021

More recently, in 2013, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died at the hands of air pollution. Half a century ago, a lethal haze of smoke and fog, otherwise known as the Great Smog of 1952, covered London and killed as many as 12,000 people. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Community Engagement Public Transportation Public Health Transportation 98

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. Cool train branding designs though for Tri-Rail.

Transportation 52

Transportation Public Transportation Management Sustainability 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 28, 2024

The US developed a mobility paradigm focused on the car, killing passenger rail and local transit in the process, and mostly treats bikes as toys, not a mode of practical transportation, but the real way to think about is in terms of a homogeneous mobility paradigm overall.

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