Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes.

Transportation 96

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing 96

Poverty & Policy

MAY 15, 2017

Recent mail included not only the usual junk, requests for donations and bills, but a magazine from Stanford University’s Center on Poverty and Inequality. The authors refer to it as the “commodification of opportunity”—a fancy term for several developments that help account for poverty. Such a surprise, since I hadn’t ordered it.

Public Transportation 40

Public Transportation Education Transportation Development 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

Riffing off of " Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando ," that entry mentioned that Brightline is developing a similar railroad service between "Los Angeles" and Las Vegas, called Brightline West. The first element is an integrated public transportation system.

Transportation 52

Transportation Public Transportation Development Coordinator 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

They are looking to improve transit but haven't had a lot of success--failed tax referenda in 2020 and 2022 with another possible attempt for 2024, and there is back-biting (" Mayor Demings wary of Universal’s SunRail expansion plan, cites ‘lack of transparency’ ," Mass Transit Magazine ). Photo: Ryan Lynch, Orlando Business Journal.

Transportation 52

Transportation Public Transportation Management Sustainability 52