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Story of the little train that can’t
The San Francisco Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner
Aug 27, 2007 4:00 AM (841 days ago)SAN FRANCISCO

‘Transit-oriented development” is the buzz word for policies that promote high-density, mixed-use growth clustered around mass transit lines instead of more traditional settlements along suburban highways. TOD is much favored among urban planners who assume that people who live and work near rail lines won’t use cars to get around. That’s the theory, but it doesn’t always work in practice, as folks in Portland, Ore., have discovered.

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