Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit-Oriented Development

San Francisco Mayor to NYC: “Eat Your Heart Out.”

By Matthew Roth | Dec 11, 2008 | 25 Comments

A rendering of the Transbay Transit Center with a 5.4 acre park on its roof. At a groundbreaking ceremony for the long-awaited Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco yesterday, Mayor Gavin Newsom asserted the project will be "so much more extraordinary than Grand Central Station." Pointing to the renderings on a projection screen behind him, […]

Wiki Wednesday: Transit-Oriented Development

By Brad Aaron | Nov 19, 2008 | 4 Comments

Streetcar-served TOD in Dallas, TX If the United States is in fact on the verge of a transit renaissance, transit-oriented development will have to be part of the mix. In this week’s StreetsWiki entry, slinkp writes: Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) grew popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a response to suburban sprawl and a means […]

NGOs Work to Fill Transit-Oriented Development Void

By Brad Aaron | Sep 25, 2008 | 4 Comments

Today the Tri-State Transportation Campaign joined the One Region Funders’ Group* and The Fund for New Jersey in announcing a grant program to foster metro area transit-oriented development. The program intends to encourage transit oriented development, or mixed use development within a fourth to half mile of a train or bus station, by offering financial […]