Posted on January 21, 2010 by Ben Welle
We’ve been thinking more and more about the connection between transit and parks. One useful resource in this area is the Station Area Planning Manual (pdf) prepared by Reconnecting America for the San Francisco Bay Area a few years ago. The manual is meant to be a guide for local governments as they plan areas [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2009 by Ben Welle
The trouble with light rail and subway, some say, is that it only serves a small area around each station, and that vast areas can be left to dependence on cars. Planners consider mass transit service areas around light rail stations and subway stops to be about 1/4 mile — any farther and you’ll see [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2008 by Ben Welle
A brief look at the connection of parks and transit. Turns out most of the most visited parks in the United States have mass transit access. (See table below.) And with the exception of Mission Bay, most of the parks below are probably reached by transit in high numbers. Central Park and Prospect Park have [...]
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