Houston: Jersey Village Moves Forward with TOD Plan
Community Impact Newspapers
he Jersey Village City Council approved the concept plan for a transit-oriented development south of Hwy. 290 and moved the process to the next stage-fiscal impact....
(March 17, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Past experience suggests the economic development impacts of LRT in all but the most fast-growing, economically robust settings are over-sold,"
(March 15, 2010)
DC: Metro's Joint Development Chief Sees Changes
Washington Business Journal
Steve Goldin is ready to spread the "transit-oriented development gospel" at Metro. The new head of real estate and joint development at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and a self-proclaimed "TOD nerd," Goldin has pledged to jump-start development on some of the region's most valuable properties near Metrorail stations - and overhaul the authority's development bid process....
(March 15, 2010)
Dallas: TOD a Failed Promise?
Dallas Morning News
Advocates of DART's aggressive rail expansion, which it calls the most ambitious in North America, argue the theory that development will cluster along rail lines because people want to live nearby, park their cars and commute by train. A core objective is to improve the air. Plus, supporters say, rail boosts property values and thereby helps economic vitality...
(March 15, 2010)
Dallas: TOD a Failed Promise?
Dallas Morning News
Advocates of DART's aggressive rail expansion, which it calls the most ambitious in North America, argue the theory that development will cluster along rail lines because people want to live nearby, park their cars and commute by train. A core objective is to improve the air. Plus, supporters say, rail boosts property values and thereby helps economic vitality...
(March 15, 2010)
Blogosphere: Is There Any Room for Cyclists in TOD?
SoapBoxLA
The W Hollywood Hotel & Residences, perched atop the Metro's Hollywood & Vine Red Line Station, has simultaneously raised the curtain and lowered the standard, establishing itself as LA's largest Transient Oriented Development (TOD) complete with a public plaza that offers convenient single serving drug sales, discrete nooks for defecation and urination, secure yet public overnight sidewalk accommodations, and a popular valet-adjacent vomitorium....
(March 15, 2010)
New York: Don't Let TOD be DOA on Long Island
News Day
Whatever Long Island's future may look like, a major route to get there is development that both uses and improves mass transit. That's the way to make our downtowns vibrant and to ease some of the congestion on our roads....
(March 15, 2010)
New York: Don't Let TOD be DOA on Long Island
News Day
Whatever Long Island's future may look like, a major route to get there is development that both uses and improves mass transit. That's the way to make our downtowns vibrant and to ease some of the congestion on our roads....
(March 15, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Wall Street Journal
"It's questionable whether the agricultural land that's in the Bay Area can remain,"
(March 12, 2010)
Blogosphere: Elevated Rails Slow Urbanism?
During the design process for the Silver Line, now under construction, a group of citizen activists advocated putting the Tysons Corner portion in a tunnel rather than mostly elevated, as ultimately planned. ...
(March 12, 2010)
