Blogosphere: Strategic Mobility Plan a Way Forward
Austin Chronicle
The city is poised to plunge into the rail-transit business - with its central-city circulator Austin Urban Rail project - yet has barely dipped a toe into the transit-oriented development business. Transit-successful cities (e.g., Portland, Ore.) fund streetcars with tax-increment financing - bonds gradually paid off from the stream of increased property taxes that streetcar lines help create...
(March 11, 2010)
Utah: We Need Transit Oriented Communities
Standard Examiner
The Wasatch Front Regional Council estimates that the Top of Utah will see a 60 percent population increase over the next 30 years. Unfortunately, we're not a public transportation-oriented community in Utah. It's clear that we have to make some strides toward using public transit. If we don't, our freeways won't be able to handle the traffic flow. Add the resulting increase in pollution and we've got a big problem....
(March 11, 2010)
San Jose: Milpitas Votes Stop Location, Development
San Jose Mercury News
City officials last week supported Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority's vision of greater development at Milpitas' future Bay Area Rapid Transit station site at the southeast corner of Capitol Avenue and Montague Expressway...
(March 11, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Oregonian
"Of course, if I pull in and see a TriMet shuttle bus waiting for me, I just drive to work."
(March 9, 2010)
Blogosphere: Local Lesson in Transit Orientation
NRDC Switchboard
Several weeks ago, I ran a post making the case that transit-oriented development requires more than just transit and development. As the phrase implies, it also requires orientation: the development must relate to and be convenient to the transit....
(March 9, 2010)
Dallas: Grapevine Officials Focus on TOD
Fort Worth Star Telegram
How do you plan for $50 million in development around a facility that is yet to be designed? And, how do you make a building in a modern, regional transit system mesh with existing structures in a carefully preserved historic district?...
(March 4, 2010)
Minneapolis: A New Business Hub?
SWC Bulletin
A Minneapolis-based urban planner extolled the virtues of development that can spring up around transit stations last week to Red Rock Corridor Commission members - and also warned of the challenges cities can face in making that development successful....
(March 4, 2010)
Austin: City Needs Development Goals, Agreements
Austin Chronicle
City Council's 7-0 vote on Feb. 25 to adopt the East Riverside Corridor Master Plan was a milestone. Improving this corridor can advance many community goals, including environmental and fiscal sustainability, as well as comprehensive planning for growth....
(March 4, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Seattle Transit Blog
"freeways were built exactly for the purpose of transit."
(March 3, 2010)
Blogosphere: Why Vision Line Makes Sense
Crosscut
It avoids prolonged neighborhood fights and may, long term, shape the new Eastside and attract more riders than the proposed Sound Transit route....
(March 3, 2010)
