The recently released draft report of the MTA’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Sustainability contains tens of recommendations, most of which deal with greening the MTA’s infrastructure or responding to the consequences of climate change. (One which has been seized upon by the press is a “green MetroCard” program whereby transit riders could donate [...]
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A concept drawing for bus-oriented development at Central and Harding Aves. in White Plains. Westchester County continues to move forward on creating a BRT line on Central Avenue and is making concerted efforts to incorporate transit-oriented development at three sites along the route. Naomi Klein, the project manager for the study, gave an [...] The station house in Harrison, where Metro-North and the town are working on a TOD project. Interest in transit-oriented development (TOD) is soaring. This past Friday, New York University’s Rudin Center held a conference on TOD that was its best-attended conference ever. Meanwhile, Tri-State closed its application process for its new TOD grant [...] Compared to 1980, less New Jerseyans (and less Americans) walk or carpool to work. More New Jerseyans take transit to work than in 1980, mainly because more are working in New York City. A new report from New Jersey Future — titled Getting to Work: Reconnecting Jobs With Transit — is a convincing [...]
Transit-oriented development will encourage economic development and create opportunities during difficult financial times, said NYSDOT Commissioner Astrid Glynn and ConnDOT Commissioner Joseph Marie at a panel on Thursday in New Haven.
The event was part of the Connecticut and Westchester Mayors’ Institute for Community Design sponsored by the One Region [...] Seventy-five percent of the units in Center Commons, a TOD in Portland, Ore., are affordable housing units. Today the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and the One Region Funders’ Group announced a new community assistance grant program to encourage transit-oriented development (TOD) by offering financial support to municipalities ready to address the linkages between affordable [...]
Newark officials have issued a Request for Expressions of Interest in the Broad Street Station area. Newark Mayor Cory Booker has identified the revitalization of the Broad Street Station District as a top priority for the City, and has released a detailed concept plan, dubbed the “Living Downtown,” for approximately 50 [...] It seems like the MTA is finally taking transit-oriented development (TOD) seriously. The agency announced that it “is developing a region-wide TOD program to support local communities throughout the MTA service territory,” and has added a description of this program to its website, which includes a single point of contact for communities interested in [...] L-R: New Haven’s Oak Street neighborhood in the 1950s, the area in the 1970s after the construction of the Route 34 Connector, and today. The negative impacts of postwar urban renewal — wanton highway construction, residential displacement, social fragmentation — are still felt in cities throughout America. New Haven, the recipient of more [...] Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi spent much of yesterday’s State of the County address discussing government consolidation and property tax relief, but also talked at length about responsible growth, calling for increased investment in downtowns that would attract new businesses and stem the exodus of young people from Long Island. This “New Suburbia” concept [...] |
 
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