Wed
Jun 18 2008
11:07 pm
More on housing and Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
By: Joe Hultquist

This article in the Wall Street Journal (link...) gives a great overview of the growing relationship between transit (meaning rail transit) and high quality, livable housing options. Rail, because developers will develop next to it. They're not much interested in buses, since those routes can be changed fairly easily, leaving the intended TOD "high and dry".
gonzone's picture

But Wait

Submitted by gonzone on Fri, 2008/06/20 - 11:06am.

Hold on now, we keep being told that population density must PRECEDE the building of rail systems! Not that it matters when we build massive highways and let development occur along those corridors.

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson

jbr's picture

Apparently a good lobbyist

Submitted by jbr on Fri, 2008/06/20 - 3:15pm.

Apparently a good lobbyist can sell water to a fish.

bizgrrl's picture

Shoot for regional

Submitted by bizgrrl on Fri, 2008/06/20 - 3:57pm.

Shoot for regional city-to-city heavy rail first.

I think that is a great idea. An Atlanta-Chattanooga-Knoxville route would be great. Then a Knoxville-Nashville-eventually Memphis route.

I remember being in South Bend, IN, and everyone there loved the train service to Chicago. They used it for work, play, and shopping.

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