Blogosphere: In Hollywood, Lack of Car = Loser
Slate
In Greenberg, Ben Stiller plays Greenberg, a drifting musician-turned-carpenter who's getting over a nervous breakdown. He's a needy and casually abusive schmuck, a socially awkward and obsessive crank. And if you need any more clues to the extent of his pathological loserdom, here's one: He doesn't drive....
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(August 3, 2010)
Leveraging Federal Transit Funds To Promote Job Connectivity, Affordable Housing
Reconnecting America offers ideas on how to improve federal New Starts and Small Starts project justification criteria
The Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD) has responded to the Federal Transit Administration's request for suggestions on how to change the New Starts and Small Starts project justification criteria and, in particular, improve the calculations used to score proposed transit capital projects.
(August 3, 2010)
- Letter to Peter M. Rogoff Administrator, Federal Transit Administration · PDF
- Destinations Matter: Building Transit Success · PDF
- TOD 202: Transit + Employment (June 2008) · PDF
- Office Development, Rail Transit, and Commuting Choices. Journal of Public Transportation. (2006) · PDF
- Capturing the Value of Transit (November 2008) · PDF
- Overview of CTOD's New Starts Recommendations · PDF
New Jersey: Rail Tunnel will Increase Values
Wall Street Journal
Homeowners in New Jersey who live near NJ Transit stations could see a bump in their property values thanks to the new $8.7 billion rail tunnel being built to improve the commuter rail system, a new study says...
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(August 2, 2010)
Quote of the Day
USA Today
"I was a little nervous about taking the bus. Now, I wouldn't go back to driving."
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(July 27, 2010)
Blogosphere: More Space for Parking than Offices
Streetsblog NYC
Another city, another would-be transit-oriented development undermined by a glut of parking. This time it's Newton, Massachusetts, where plans are underway to build 420,000 square feet of office space, 60,000 square feet of retail, and 190 units of housing at the Riverside terminus of Boston's Green Line, the highest-ridership light rail line in the country...
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(July 27, 2010)
Pittsburgh: City Seeks BRT on Local Streets
Tribune Review
When the first of Pittsburgh's busways were built 33 years ago, they were the cutting edge of bus transit, slashing travel times to Downtown by taking buses out of regular traffic...
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(July 27, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Los Angeles Times (Commenter)
"At the end of the day, the people whining about traffic ARE the traffic, because they're whining from their cars."
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(July 26, 2010)
New Orleans: Report Discusses Freeway Teardown
Times Picayune
Hoping to give further momentum to an idea that has picked up a growing number of adherents in recent years, a group of local civic activists and planners today will release a detailed report advocating the removal of the elevated expressway over Claiborne Avenue...
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(July 23, 2010)
Blogosphere: Commute Market Share Wrong Way to Go
Urbanophile
It's common to look at transit in terms of commuting market share. It's understandable why we do this, since, among other things, it is easy to get the data. But the generally low showing of transit on this metric I think misses the bigger picture. Chicago metro has a transit market share of 11.5%, for example...
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(July 23, 2010)
Houston: Metro Cancels Contract, Rehires Firm
Houston Metro
The Metropolitan Transit Authority board canceled a contract Thursday that gave a real estate firm commissions for all of the agency's land deals - even deals the firm had no part in closing. It then rehired the firm under terms that would pay it only for deals on which it works....
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(July 23, 2010)
