How Do We Fulfill the Promise of Public Transit in Los Angeles?
November 5, 2013
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With a $40 billion voter-approved transit investment being deployed over the next 20 years, Los Angeles County residents are charting a path to a new future. The transit system expansion will add 102 miles of rail transit and almost 100 new stations, while creating 400,000 new jobs.[1] While the City of Los Angeles is ground zero for much of this change - at the core of the transit network and with 113 current and planned stations - 63 other jurisdictions across the County will also enjoy frequent transit, making the scale of change as record-breaking as the pace of change.
How does public transportation affect economic mobility?
September 11, 2013
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Jeff Wood, Reconnecting America's New Media Director and Chief Cartographer, participated in a radio program on Bay Area station KALW on Sept. 10.
The Your Call program featured a conversation about how the expansion of mass transit system would affect economic productivity. The show discussed Reconnecting America's Moving to Work in the Bay Area report and new research by UC Berkeley showing that depending on the size of a city, the economic value of transit could be worth anywhere from $1.5 million to almost $2 billion dollars a year.
In addition to Wood, program host Rose Aquilar's guests included Dan Chatman, assistant professor of city and regional planning at UC Berkeley, and Debbie Hale, Executive Director Contract Performance Goals and Objectives The Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC).
Spurring Private-Sector Development Along Transit Corridors
August 23, 2013
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A new report by the University of Minnesota examining the perspectives of developers and business leaders on achieving transit-oriented jobs-housing balance along the Twin Cities transit network has been added to the Resource Center best practices database.
Cityscape Symposium Explores Mixed-Income Housing In The U.S. and Europe
August 21, 2013
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Effects of Transit-Oriented Development on Affordable Housing
August 9, 2013
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A master's thesis that explored changes in demographic composition, housing affordability, transportation affordability and job accessibility within the Metro Green Line corridor in Los Angeles has been added to the Research Center best practices database.
Across The Regions: Income Mobility And Access To Opportunity
July 25, 2013
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A lot of attention has recently been centered on what is considered to be “the most detailed portrait yet of income mobility in the United States” The study, jointly conducted by economics faculty at Harvard and UC Berkeley, reinforces past research on the subject of income mobility, in that children born into poverty face great difficulty in rising out of poverty over their lifetime. What makes this particular study unique is how it highlights the stark differences of opportunities for lifetime income mobility across the metropolitan areas of America, which, as summarized by David Leonhardt of the New York Times, “allows researchers to consider local factors that previous mobility studies could not – including a region’s geography.”
The Value In Mixed-Income Neighborhoods
July 23, 2013
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A report exploring whether growing segregation between rich and poor influences attitudes toward welfare programs and the recipients of welfare payments has been added to the Resource Center best practices database.
Transit-Accessible Workforce Housing Opportunities in Atlanta
July 21, 2013
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An applied research paper presented to the faculty of the school of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Institute of Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for master's degree in city and regional planning has been added to the Resource Center best practices data base.
The Debate And Politics Surrounding Columbia University’s Expansion In Harlem
July 17, 2013
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The article "The Radiant University: Space, Urban Redevelopment, and the Public Good" has been added to the Resource Center best practices database.
Video: Making the Most of Transit Through Regional TOD Implementation - Seattle, Pittsburgh and Baltimore
July 16, 2013
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Slides used in the video are available below.
Transit planning is well underway, lines have been built, but what more can partners do to leverage the potential of their networks to support transit-oriented districts and economic development goals? How can we ensure that new investment and development actually leverage our transit assets? What strategies will address equity issues like risk of displacement or training residents near transit for the jobs that transit connects? And how does one answer these questions for the tens, if not hundreds of stops in a transit system?
This webinar highlights an approach that many regions are taking to answer these difficult questions: the Regional TOD Strategy. Experts from the Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Seattle regions discussed their experiences with developing, communicating and implementing regional TOD strategies that are grounded in an implementation, place-based typology approach that prioritizes station areas for different types of…
- Reconnecting America Introduction Slides (PDF, 701 KB)
- Ben Bakkenta and Sara Schott Nikolic, Puget Sound Regional Council, Slides (PDF, 9.4 MB)
- Chris Sandvig, Regional Policy Director at the Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group, Slides (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Brian O'Malley, Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, Slides (PDF, 11 MB)
