Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As the Denton County Transportation Authority’s (DCTA) recent Senior Marketing and Communications Manager, I was tasked with developing and leading the marketing and communications plan for the agency’s GoZone microtransit public involvement project in the spring of 2021. But, we were determined to overcome these barriers.

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JULY 25, 2023

See past blog entries: -- " Pathetic not revelatory: Quality of bus stop study in San Francisco ," 2021 -- " Bus shelters as social spaces, as potential vectors for virus: Seoul's new anti-covid bus shelter ," 2020 Project for Public Spaces has a report on the topic, Destination Station: Transforming Bus Stops through Community Outreach.

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Social Pinpoint

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This final instalment will focus on the best tips to develop and share your public transportation engagement report. This brand-new service was slated to launch in fall 2021 – just a few months later. This brand-new service was slated to launch in fall 2021 – just a few months later.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. From the OBJ : The growing Iinternational Drive resort area currently has about 75,000 employees, a number projected to reach 100,000 in the next few years, which increases the need for a connected transportation system.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 26, 2023

Until just a few years ago, the right riverbank of the Seine in Paris was an urban highway used by over 40,000 vehicles every day. Despite being named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the road was either heavily gridlocked during rush.

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APRIL 11, 2024

I note that GGW just wrote about this this week. note that one "problem" with the VV model is it isn't expansive enough, you need private services like taxi and bike share and at times, the highway people, at the table too A good model for coordination of modes is laid out on a website is for the Manchester, UK system.

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APRIL 20, 2023

The first element is an integrated public transportation system. In Las Vegas it would mean bringing together the RTC, Las Vegas Monorail, and private services including taxi and shuttle services, Brightline West, the Nevada DOT, and probably the Airport and Convention Center in an overarching German style transportation association.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 19, 2023

For decades, the city of Peshawar, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northern Pakistan, has been rocked by wars and acts of terrorism that disrupted public safety and made it difficult to plan the city’s growth. A particularly challenging consequence.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 20, 2021

2020 upended life as we know it. The coronavirus killed almost 2 million people and counting, while roughly 100 million people fell into extreme poverty. The world entered its worst recession since the second world war. Deep-rooted racial and economic injustices were. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

Of that 2021 total, none took place in the District. Since that year, police records show, transit officers have dramatically shifted away from enforcing fare evasion across the rail and bus system, with citations and arrests numbering less than 300 last year, compared with more than 15,000 in 2017.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 5, 2022

Gas prices doubled in the United States between February 2021 and June 2022, topping out at more than $5. President Biden suggested that the United States implement a Federal Gas Tax holiday to help consumers weather historically high gas prices.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

For what it's worth, over the past ten years, the regional recommendations for transit were incredibly paltry and stunted, in part because the Republican Governor, Larry Hogan, had negative interest in transit, except for maglev. -- " Small update: Transit agenda for Greater Baltimore ," 2021- It appears that's changing.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JULY 20, 2022

Los Angeles and the Puget Sound region in Washington state tested MOD-style programs to deal with the first mile/last mile barriers to using public transportation. The work was tracked in a series of research and evaluation reports by the non-partisan, non-profit transportation think tank, Eno Center for Transportation.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In 2021, the NYU Furman Center’s Local Housing Solutions published a brief on Reduced Parking Requirements. However, the number of parking spaces required per square foot of lot area is generally higher in areas accessible to transit.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Photo: Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle The battles over transportation access were central to the Civil Rights movement. Transit Equity Day , set by the American Public Transportation Association as February 4th , during African American/Black History Month, is one way to acknowledge this. 9, in Houston.

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