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Honoring the Americans With Disabilities Act

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The unprecedented law, enacted in 1990, affirmed the rights of the disabled, making public spaces, places of employment and transportation less discriminatory. Significant changes across the public and private sectors were needed so disabled individuals could fully participation in public and economic life in the United States.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. The idea is that intra-district transportation, especially by SFH residents, could be shifted to shuttles rather than by car. Go to the grocery store, bring back your purchases, without driving.

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Revisiting the need for comprehensive transportation planning at the metropolitan and regional scales | For profit services, and White's Ferry, Montgomery and Loudoun Counties

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But it's a demonstration of a quirk in planning generally and transportation planning specifically. Mostly, a master plan only covers what the government controls or operates, and usually ignores for profit services, and often, franchised services.

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.