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State CIOs Urge the House to Reauthorize SLCGP Funding

State Tech Magazine

The House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection heard testimony from state and local leaders Tuesday, who urged reauthorization of the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. The deadline looms as nation-state-sponsored cyberattackers target utilities, transportation, hospitals, emergency services and schools.

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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. 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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Q&A: In Florida, JTA CEO Nathaniel Ford Champions Public Transit

State Tech Magazine

After starting his career with New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Nathaniel Ford has held key positions at transit systems across the United States, including the Bay Area Rapid Transit District in Northern California, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.

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Need Is Not Enough To Win Grants

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From dubious quizzes about your soul mate in 1980s women’s magazines to Buzzfeed’s endless supply of “decorate your dream house, and we’ll guess your eye color,” I’m always game to give it a go and rarely seem to match up with what should be the correct answer. I’m a sucker for a quiz. It’s all in fun.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transit adjacency is a plus for employee transportation. But I haven't seen a good transportation demand management study of hospital workers trip to work. (In In August [2022], the hospital system opened its affordable housing project Vía Sana in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood.

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Current Affairs Magazine: US Transit is Abysmal and Unacceptable

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transit is abysmal because after the era of the transit city (1890-1920, see " Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis ," ) cities have been built to optimize and depend upon the automobile. Plus, the car and freedom were seen as "better" than mass transit.

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Women's History Month and urban planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.