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Uber: criminal?

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124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." Hailo didn't last long (" Hailo Shuts Down: How Taxi Drivers Sabotaged a Golden Opportunity and Handed Uber and Lyft the Keys ," Frommers, 2014).

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

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And an area of DC law that offered a way to oppose the entry -- the environmental impact law -- was underdeveloped, and those lawyers who were willing to oppose except for JOBS! And it had one of the best transportation demand management signs I've ever seen in a retail store.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

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This one is from February 2014. Another area that I would chalk up to a failure of planning leadership is the discussion of proposed changes to the height limit law. When I do searches for articles within the blog, I come across articles that remain in draft form, as I never got around to finishing them. The Height Limit discussions.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

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This entry became very long, so I broke it up. the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," (2018) -- " Yes the neighborhood will change, but it will take 10-25 years ," (2018) -- " House flipping as reproduction of space ," (2018) -- " Q: Could a community land trust help solve D.C.s gentrification crisis?

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Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

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The Cache Valley Daily reports, " Local stakeholders to host transportation safety summit at Logan Library ," that the MPO there is holding a traffic safety conference next week, to support its plan to reduce crashes and deaths. CMPO’s 2024 Safety Summit will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m.

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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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Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part three -- transportation

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Transit/transportation as a set of networks operating at different scales : this extends the argument laid out in the 2006 Arlington County Master Transportation Plan, where they defined their primary and secondary transit networks. ( This entry became very long, so I broke it up. From the c. I see they're updating their plan.)