Public Transportation and Smart Growth

CentralCoaster

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2. It won't happen overnight, but Transit Oriented Development offers hope for the future.

Wed May 4, 2016, 09:46 AM

May 2016

You and others have to drive because we chose the wrong path, with cheap energy, and gave up sensible planning in favor of the auto culture and suburban planning.

We won't change that overnight, but younger people will be choosing a different lifestyle, property values are climbing near transit stops and businesses will want to locate near transit.

Over time, suburban homes will fall in value relative to those nearer to shopping, businesses, and transit.

Driving is unsustainable as a planning model and it will end.

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The Absurd Primacy of the Automobile in American Life [View all] KamaAina Apr 2016 OP

I, mostly, drive EV whatthehey Apr 2016 #1

It won't happen overnight, but Transit Oriented Development offers hope for the future. CentralCoaster May 2016 #2

You missed the part where I can't walk to the end of the street? whatthehey May 2016 #3

A common problem in the discussion about transit: CentralCoaster May 2016 #4

But these evangelical kill car pipedreams never suggest we have both whatthehey May 2016 #5

San Jose light rail trains have level boarding KamaAina May 2016 #7

How do you get to these trains from your house and from them to your destination? whatthehey May 2016 #8

On the sidewalks, of course KamaAina May 2016 #9

Which still leaves me with insufficient range to go anywhere past the next block from any station whatthehey May 2016 #10

Great article... CentralCoaster May 2016 #6