Transit
How a Twin Cities Community Fought For Transit Equity — And Won
For many neighborhoods, a shiny new light rail line can be a blessing and a curse. Yes, it provides access to affordable transportation options that can be the avenue to jobs and economic opportunity. But it can also bring higher housing costs and drive up retail rents, exiling area residents and local businesses.
October 26, 2011
The Federal Government’s Smart Growth-Inspired Landlord
Robert Peck says he’ll gladly pay more to locate office buildings near transit – the time saved commuting makes it worthwhile.
October 25, 2011
How Salt Lake City Became a Leader in Transit-Oriented Development
In 2004, Salt Lake City faced a challenging question: How do you fit 1.4 million additional residents into a region hemmed in by mountains on the east and water on the west? In the course of solving that problem, the city ended up answering several other head-scratchers, like: How do you get buy-in for smart-growth policies from conservatives wary of urbanism? And, how do you make new greenfield development both sustainable and wildly popular?
October 24, 2011
How Value Capture Financing Will Revitalize White Flint
White Flint, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC, should be a shining example of transit-oriented development. It’s centered on a metro station on the busy red line, sandwiched between the bustling suburban downtowns of Bethesda and Rockville.
October 20, 2011
FTA Distributes $1 Billion to Local Transit Agencies
Transit providers in Detroit, Miami, Seattle and Bloomington, Indiana were a few of the many winners in the latest round of Federal Transit Administration capital grants.
October 20, 2011
Five Ways Market Research Paints Bright Future for Public Transit
At the Tuesday morning plenary of the Rail~Volution conference, William Millar made a bold pronouncement. The president of the American Public Transportation Association suggested that, beyond the 1,200 attendees of the annual gathering, there are billions of public transit advocates — they just don’t know it yet.
October 19, 2011
DC, Arlington Officials Cite Seven Potential Transit Pitfalls
Fifty years ago, when the rest of the country was building highways, the District of Columbia and Arlington County invested heavily in transit — and it paid huge dividends.
October 18, 2011
The Last Mile: How Bike-Ped Improvements Can Connect People to Transit
Whether it’s just a short walk down the street or a five-mile bike ride, the journey between home and station is a major factor in people's decision to take public transit.
October 18, 2011
What If Washington Never Built Metro?
Rail~Volution 2011 marks the first time since 2002 that this conference for all things transit and smart growth has taken place in the nation's capital. When it comes to livability, Washington and neighboring Arlington County have some great stories to share with the rest of the country.
October 17, 2011
Carnahan and LaTourette Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Bolster Transit Service
It's a sign of the recession, but also symptomatic of a longstanding restriction on federal transit funding. In Lorain, Ohio and Albany, New York and other cities across the country, rows of brand new buses, paid for with stimulus money, have been laid up in garages.
October 13, 2011