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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM. Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."

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Brightline West should also be used to transform public transit service in Las Vegas

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The system went into bankruptcy and now is run as a nonprofit. The first element is an integrated public transportation system. And the taxi industry and drivers are a very strong lobby against public transportation. It was a private venture connecting two hotel-casinos about one mile apart starting in 1995.