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+100 Alex B. (and AWalkerintheCity is right in the characterization of NH)

My basic point is this.

1. When PG County got all those Metro stations, it had the opportunity to begin repatterning its land use planning vision and paradigm. (Although there were spatial issues making it really hard, as Alex B. discusses.)

2. It didn't take that opportunity.

3. Now that the Purple Line is coming, there is a second opportunity to reset the vision of the county.

4. But you are wrong to assert that I mean to focus on the new light rail at the expense of the current stations.

FWIW I have written quite a bit about this:

- http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-matters-isnt-transit-oriented.html

- http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2011/05/planning-for-transit-lines-trip-speed.html

- http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2009/08/with-transit-oriented-development-urban.html

Based on the experience of DC, to fully reap the benefits of transit stations and a network takes decades.

FWIW/2, I have written this about issues comparable to those facing PG, but for Baltimore City and Baltimore County, as I wrote a piece for the Baltimore County Master Plan Update process on changing the paradigm for transit planning there, although it ended up being too controversial:

http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2011/04/for-tod-to-be-successful-necessary.html

by Richard Layman on Aug 10, 2011 11:32 am • link • report