Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transit-Oriented Development

Nature’s Unsung Helper

By Chris Carlsson | Oct 8, 2009 | 9 Comments

Stephen O’Brien, gardener at Transbay Terminal since 1958. Stephen O’Brien has been coaxing an oasis out of a most unlikely environment for a long time: the small green patches at either end of the ground level Mission Street frontage of the Transbay Terminal. He started back in 1958, when the old Key System train tracks […]

Team Obama Adviser: Here’s How to Make Sustainability Mainstream

By Elana Schor | Oct 7, 2009 | No Comments

Shelley Poticha, head of the Obama administration’s inter-agency sustainable communities push, is so new to the job that the legislation creating her office has yet to be officially approved by Congress — but she has already hit upon two goals aimed at remaking the way Americans, and their government, view local development. Shelley Poticha (Photo: […]

White House Urban Affairs Chief: Promising Words But Little Hint of a Plan

By Elana Schor | Oct 6, 2009 | No Comments

Adolfo Carrion Jr., director of the White House’s new Office of Urban Affairs, today vowed to begin reconnecting Washington with the needs of the nation’s cities — even as he offered few tangible plans for breaking through the morass of the federal bureaucracy and effecting change in the near term. White House Urban Affairs director […]

Growth of Compact Development Likely, Important for Reducing VMT

By Ryan Avent | Sep 25, 2009 | No Comments

About two years ago, the Urban Land Institute published Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, which argued that it will be crucial to build cities in a more compact fashion if the country hopes to avoid substantial growth in vehicle miles traveled and carbon emissions over the next few decades. At […]

The Power of Transit-Oriented Development

By Ryan Avent | Aug 27, 2009 | 1 Comment

Back in the late 1970s, when Washington’s Metrorail system first began operating in Arlington County, Virginia, the future of Arlington and other old, inner suburbs was far from certain. Across the Potomac, the District of Columbia was suffering from depopulation, rapidly rising crime rates, and serious fiscal difficulties. Ballston Metro station, Arlington Co. Photo: Point […]

Senators Propose $4 Billion for Transit-Oriented Development Grants

By Elana Schor | Aug 6, 2009 | 2 Comments

Making good on a vow first reported in Streetsblog Capitol Hill, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) and three colleagues today offered a bill authorizing $4 billion in grants to help states and cities pursue transit-oriented development, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and other green transport projects. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) (Photo: […]

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