Last Friday, 30 families moved into the beautiful new M Station affordable apartments adjacent to the MLK Station. The M Station complex is the newest addition to the Foundation Communities‘ collection of affordable housing properties. The M Station offers onsite, state of the art childcare and learning center and 150 apartments, including 15 for extremely [...]
Posts Tagged ‘TOD’
M Station affordable housing welcomes its first residents
Posted in MetroRail, tagged affordable housing, M Station, MLK Station, TOD on August 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Linking Workers to Jobs via Transit
Posted in planning, Uncategorized, tagged CAMPO, CARTS, land use, planning, regional transportation network, TOD on May 18, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Last week, the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution released an analysis of how well transit systems in the nation’s largest 100 metropolitan areas connect workers to jobs. The key finding of the study is that nationally, while a high percentage of people live near transit (69 percent), a much smaller percentage of jobs [...]
Complete Streets
Posted in Complete Streets, Uncategorized, tagged livable cities, TOD on February 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend BikeTexas‘ Shifting Gears: 2011 Transportation and Health Policy Luncheon and hear a presentation by international livable cities expert Gil Peñalosa. He’s the executive director of 8-80 Cities, an organization with a powerful mission to create vibrant cities and healthy communities. Peñalosa’s presentation was both thought-provoking and inspiring. [...]
TOD update
Posted in TOD, tagged livability, TOD on June 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Capital Metro’s Manager of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Lucy Galbraith gave a really interesting presentation this month to the board’s Rail Committee meeting on June 14. It contained a good overview of what TOD is all about. It also included updates for development plans and progress at four stations: Leander, Crestview, MLK Jr., and Plaza [...]
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