Denver transit-oriented developments reflect planners’ misguided mania for density

Denver transit-oriented developments reflect planners’ misguided mania for density
- August 14, 2014
- David Brownstone, economics professor, is quoted by Coalition On Sustainable Transportation August 14, 2014
From the Coalition on Sustainable Transportation:
Third, TODs aren’t really all that transit oriented. University of California, Irvine,
economist David Brownstone has found that the reduction in driving from higher densities
is “too small to be useful” in saving energy, while careful counts by Portland’s Cascade
Policy Institute reveal that people who live in TODs are just as likely to drive,
and just as unlikely to take transit, as they would be if they lived elsewhere. TODs
actually increase congestion because they concentrate more people on busy arterials.
For the full story, please visit http://www.costaustin.org/jskaggs/?p=4360.
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