Great Minds Think Alike

Posted on May 20, 2010 by gtrimmer

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The following is a great article in The Atlantic by Chris Leinberger discussing the increasing preference for dense walkable communities surrounding transit. It also describes the past and present success of funding transit infrastructure through private structures. Sounds a lot (even exactly) like our efforts in White Flint:

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/06/here-comes-the-neighborhood/8093

Greg Trimmer

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My initial thought is what is the big deal? There is only one median opening shown in the rendering, and that will limit the cross traffic conflict, and the only problem would be potential conflicts with right turning vehicles. If this is such a problem, why not only built the road associated with the median opening connecting Woodglen and 355 as a county standard road, and build the other roads as private roads that function more like pedestrian plazas and provide building access but not through vehicle movement. Part of making this urban environment work is breaking up the blocks, and granted redeveloping this site at all does that, but if they can be made smaller, lets go for it! At the very least, I hope the spaces between the buildings can be built as pedestrian plazas with hardscaping, landscaping and to serve the same visual and practical function of having the streets for the pedestrian and bicycle realm.
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