Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 14, 2022

Hailo didn't last long (" Hailo Shuts Down: How Taxi Drivers Sabotaged a Golden Opportunity and Handed Uber and Lyft the Keys ," Frommers, 2014). That's the advantage of "disruptive innovation," you just do it, rather than trying to convince existing firms to join up.

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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). The Bridges now. What's proposed, rendering with the park in place. " DC should get on the bandwagon.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 17, 2024

I've written hundreds of blog entries about bicycling and how to promote it as a real form of transportation, focused on but not limited to DC, which is a perfect city for it. Ciclavia in December 2014. Bike sharing programs ought to be an obvious opportunity for promoting cycling take up. Campus specific bike share programs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

On an e-list there's been a discussion of suburban TOD and someone mentioned this journal article, " Seven American TODs: Good practices for urban design in Transit-Oriented Development projects ," Journal of Transport and Land Use , 2008.) And it is a part of #12 in the action points list in the 2014 piece. I hope they read it.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Poster board from the 2014 meetings. And it turns out I had written something similar in 2007!!!!!! -- " It's time to create the "Port Authority" of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties " That was true in 2014 and 2007, and is still true in 2022.

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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.

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Google Public Sector

AUGUST 29, 2023

Recognizing the need to meet evolving demands and expectations, USPS launched the Informed Delivery email subscription service in 2014. Google Cloud Customer Award Winners: Social Change Award Winner: Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT). Informed Delivery notifies subscribers of upcoming deliveries.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before. mile distance.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

My education about this critical topic began in 2014, when the City of Denver hired me to plan and facilitate community input sessions on the city’s proposed climate action plan update. The new challenge is to encourage participation so that anyone with a few minutes to learn and provide input can become part of the decision-making process.

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Data.gov

DECEMBER 9, 2014

(Dec 9th, 2014) The U.S. government has released a collection of data and tools that will advance planning capabilities for the impacts of climate change on our nation’s ecosystems. The data and tools will provide information and will help to … Continued.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Bus transportation. Professor Joseph Schweiterman of DePaul University is rare in that he tracks this form of transportation and he wrote about it for MSNBC News (" Thanksgiving is a stressful time to travel. The article offers recommendations including starting with smaller portions that you can finish.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

And it had one of the best transportation demand management signs I've ever seen in a retail store. Sadly," of the three it has the best building, a traditional design mixed use style that fits in with nearby buildings including the Government Printing Office.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Proposed Gatineau light rail loop to Ottawa to serve museums and the Byward Public Market is another model for intra-district transportation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 Note that such programs should also address night time activities (" Night-time safety: rethinking lighting in the context of a walking community ," 2014). Walk and Bike to School initiatives as a way to do urban design improvements in a neighborhood.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

For another, as I've written, the primary spending categories are lodging , transportation , and food and drink (hospitality). Most hotels are owned by non-local interest, same with transportation like airlines. Net revenue would be $7,700 per seat, still quite high.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). My experience in the civic arena is that it takes "a couple rounds" of putting the idea out there before there is consensus to go forward.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Such prosecutions were unheard-of before 2014. 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.

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Google Public Sector

AUGUST 29, 2023

Recognizing the need to meet evolving demands and expectations, USPS launched the Informed Delivery email subscription service in 2014. Google Cloud Customer Award Winners: Social Change Award Winner: Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT). Informed Delivery notifies subscribers of upcoming deliveries.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

BPBI Project Update to Priorities Committee - September 16, 2014 When complete in 2015/16, these processes will simplify and strengthen business planning and budgeting at Strathcona County, providing focus and direction to all of the County’s activities.

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 10, 2023

For years they haven't been reporting data by bus line--there are six. Obviously it's because most of the lines have minimal ridership.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

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., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?);

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

So it's the "entertainment city" idea but extending it to many more elements, making work and other spaces "more fun," engaging and active.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 7, 2025

. -- " Lies, damn lies, and misleading data: bus service (DC Circulator) ," (2023) -- " Throwing up my hands and the "Anacostia" "Circulator" ," (2010) For years they hadn't been reporting data by bus line--there are six. Obviously it's because most of the lines have minimal ridership.

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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. They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. Lots of deaths.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

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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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But many healthcare systems still use legacy healthcare data transport standards that don’t support real-time analysis or exchange. It can be challenging to deal with legacy transport protocols like Minimum Lower Layer Protocol (MLLP) and the lack of reliable mechanisms for real-time query and response of data.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 7, 2023

In response to the death, apparently the city transportation department is going to do enhanced sidewalk crossings along one of the major arterials serving the elementary school. The driver says he didn't see her, but in reality I think "I didn't see her/him" really means "I didn't bother looking." Mayor Erin Mendenhall joined them!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Out of region visitors spend on lodging, food, and transportation. But even before that I went back and forth on it. An important distinction they make is between in region and out of region visitation. This extends to other public lands.) That's not a lot of money. Other architecture schools and urban design centers do have urban locations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

I was surprised to see that Andy Byford has stepped down as CEO of Transport for London, as it was his dream job (" Ex-NYC subways chief Andy Byford quits London gig, plans return to US ," New York Post ). Andy Byford.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

One of the deaccessioned buildings was transferred to the US Department of Transportation for the development of a transportation research center now known as the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (" New Volpe Transportation Center opens as part of $750 million deal between MIT and feds ," Globe ).

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

This is impossible to substantiate, but goods manufactured in a donor country, brought to Haiti by transport from that country and distributed by personnel from the same country would do little to stimulate the Haitian economy. In his book about the earthquake, the eminent Harvard medical doctor Paul Farmer [ii] noted that only 3.8%

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Transportation demand management in the Walking City (" Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis " Muller) is about optimal mobility. Versus Fisher makes it out that this is a racial and social class issue, the same way he did about historic preservation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

The transportation profession tends to be dominated by men still, as it is heavily engineering based, but that is changing too. Increasingly, women are being chosen as transportation directors leading city agencies, for example in Pittsburgh, DC's former associate director of transportation planning, Karina Ricks, leads that agency.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I have a post about this related to biking (" Revisiting assistance programs to get people biking: 18 programs "), this piece about bus transit (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012), and this about district-focused transportation programming (" What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like? ").

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