GovLoop

JULY 26, 2024

The unprecedented law, enacted in 1990, affirmed the rights of the disabled, making public spaces, places of employment and transportation less discriminatory. The passage of the ADA was preceded by years of activism and advocacy-group efforts. That March, for example, more than 1,000 people marched from the White House to the U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Salt Lake City Transportation Department pop up booth at Poplar Grove Park.

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Transportation Sustainability Communications Campaign 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Both this entry and the previous one on White's Ferry ("R evisiting the need for comprehensive transportation planning at the metropolitan and regional scales | For profit services, and White's Ferry, Montgomery and Loudoun Counties ") involve protest and advocacy as a way to get better policy outcomes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

All to the good, I was surprised to see that more than a handful of houses have gates so they can access the trail, some with elaborate connections because of grade. There were incursions onto the corridor from some houses but it was pretty rare--some bad, but many would be considered acceptable--growing stuff, art works, etc.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

Featured officials shared their experiences working in the White House, and in the departments of Transportation and Commerce as they helped to implement the American Rescue Plan Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act. The post That’s so major!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Photo: Leah Hogsten, Salt Lake Tribune.

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Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing 96

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Pedestrian advocacy organizations like Feet First in Seattle have provided a great deal of support to Walk to School efforts. Ward Halls/Democracy House. This week: How about volunteering in something? Nationally, the Safe Routes to School Partnership is the primary resource.

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