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IYBI – Bike Lane Edition
In prior posts, we have cited the Field-of-Dreams law of planning: if you build it, they will come (“IYBI”), documenting research that points to mixed-use downtowns generating pedestrians, and parking...
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Who Takes Transit in the US?
According to Richard Florida, people in higher-density communities, and members of the “creative class,” including scientists, engineers, techies, researchers, artists, designers, musicians, etc....
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In another article in The Atlantic by Richard Florida, the economic efficiencies of communities that enable biking, walking, and transit are highlighted. With gasoline well over $4/gallon for a...
View ArticlePlanning Mag’s Transportation Issue
Planning, the monthly magazine of the American Planning Association, has a special issue on transportation out today. There are good articles on… Innovations in in-street bicycle integration Transit...
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Paid Parking = Business Killer?
This is a claim that has bedeviled the parking debate in Norwalk for quite some time, and one which I recently pledged to investigate more rigorously. I do not offer the following as a conclusion to...
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Opinion: CT’s TOD Needs More T, O, & D
There was another story on the wires last week that WSHU and The Hour also picked up about that most peculiar of transit dilemmas in the State of Connecticut: parking....
View ArticleResearch: Doctor Congestion
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Density There’s a piece of fascinating transportation research published in this month’s Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA). It’s kind...
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Landscape Design Improvements Proposed for West Avenue
View presentation by clicking here The Redevelopment Agency has been hard at work advancing the streetscape improvement recommendations of the Connectivity Master Plan. Together with design and...
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Draft Parking Master Plan
Recognizing the expense, congestion, underutilization of valuable land that all the parking that would be required for the new development we are anticipating in the urban corridor, the Norwalk...
View ArticlePublic Information Session TOD
The latest presentation of the public informations session is linked below Public Information Session Presentations (pdf)
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