From a speech to the annual meeting of the American Public Transportation Association:
Last year, public transportation ridership reached its highest level in 50 years. While this upward trend is tremendously encouraging, it is overloading many of your systems, and making the need for infrastructure investment all the more pressing.
The question is not whether we must […]
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Loading ...Before very recently, I knew very little about Dallas, Texas.
That changed for two reasons. First, it’s the location of the site used for this years Urban Land Institute Hines Student Urban Design Competition. I was a member of a team at the University of Maryland that submitted an entry, creating a land use and development […]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...For urban observers, it’s a rare opportunity to watch a major urban planning mistake being made before your eyes. We can only wonder “what were they thinking?” years later, when the project is complete and communities are left with the builder’s errors: dead-end highways, blank walls, and train stations far from where commuters need to […]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Which U.S. city has spent over $400 million to begin construction of an approved transit system of over 50 miles of rail lines? What other city recently kicked off a $6 billion project to build over 100 miles of new commuter and light rail, nearly quadrupling the size of the existing system?
Charlotte, North Carolina and […]
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