Comments on: Rail Rising http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/04/12/rail-rising/ Moving Together, Faster Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:41:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: JM Palacios http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/04/12/rail-rising/#comment-6214 JM Palacios Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:21:00 +0000 http://www.evolvemiami.org/transitmiami/2008/04/12/rail-rising/#comment-6214 carlos, it's important to move freight efficiently too, and rail is better than trucks for moving goods. It's all for the people anyway. We buy or use the goods, so it benefits us.<br/><br/>m1ek, you have a valid point that some of the TODs have been around awhile. Did you read the Sun-Sentinel article linked to under Delray Beach? Though that idea has been around for a few years, Palm Beach County is taking steps to push it forward now. Even if these ideas have been around awhile, with the economy and housing markets the way they are now, they should all be getting cancelled or postponed. Yet we keep hearing about them moving forward. Yes, anything like this will take some time. But if there's no money to be made, private investment will go away. It hasn't, and that is my point.<br/><br/>The connections to Tri-Rail should get better as planned east-west rail lines come in. The Boca Raton TOD article even mentioned a possible light rail connection to FAU and businesses! carlos, it’s important to move freight efficiently too, and rail is better than trucks for moving goods. It’s all for the people anyway. We buy or use the goods, so it benefits us.

m1ek, you have a valid point that some of the TODs have been around awhile. Did you read the Sun-Sentinel article linked to under Delray Beach? Though that idea has been around for a few years, Palm Beach County is taking steps to push it forward now. Even if these ideas have been around awhile, with the economy and housing markets the way they are now, they should all be getting cancelled or postponed. Yet we keep hearing about them moving forward. Yes, anything like this will take some time. But if there’s no money to be made, private investment will go away. It hasn’t, and that is my point.

The connections to Tri-Rail should get better as planned east-west rail lines come in. The Boca Raton TOD article even mentioned a possible light rail connection to FAU and businesses!

]]> By: M1EK http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/04/12/rail-rising/#comment-6213 M1EK Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:04:00 +0000 http://www.evolvemiami.org/transitmiami/2008/04/12/rail-rising/#comment-6213 Those TODs have been pushing forward on about ten different occasions on ten different plans over the last ten years. Total number of housing built: zero.<br/><br/>Don't believe it for a second. Low-quality commuter rail service that requires shuttle buses to go anywhere on the other end isn't going to be attractive to potential tenants, meaning not profitable enough for developers.<br/><br/>You could probably get something built there just because they're not making any new developeable land in the area, but it ain't gonna be TOD like you see on a good light rail line in Portland or even Dallas. Those TODs have been pushing forward on about ten different occasions on ten different plans over the last ten years. Total number of housing built: zero.

Don’t believe it for a second. Low-quality commuter rail service that requires shuttle buses to go anywhere on the other end isn’t going to be attractive to potential tenants, meaning not profitable enough for developers.

You could probably get something built there just because they’re not making any new developeable land in the area, but it ain’t gonna be TOD like you see on a good light rail line in Portland or even Dallas.

]]> By: carlos miller http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/04/12/rail-rising/#comment-6212 carlos miller Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:13:00 +0000 http://www.evolvemiami.org/transitmiami/2008/04/12/rail-rising/#comment-6212 Wouldn't that $700,000 be better spent studying ways to improve rail transportation for humans rather than industry? Wouldn’t that $700,000 be better spent studying ways to improve rail transportation for humans rather than industry?

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