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After having looked at literally thousands of plans for New Urbanist developments around the world, I learned to to groan and roll my eyes whenever one had either (a) a green semicircle or (b) a "promised rail transit line" somewhere on the plan. These were cliches that every plan seemed to have, and those promised transit lines never actually seem to materialize.

Now, here we have a plan that has a "promised rail transit line," and it's coming so late in the game that it's facing NIMBYs from within the walkable neighborhood. Sigh.

The trouble with "putting tracks in first" -- which is how things used to happen with streetcar suburbs -- is that today's cost-effectiveness measures rightly demand that transit go where people live today, instead of where they might be living tomorrow.

by Payton on Jan 21, 2011 4:41 pm • link • report

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