Riders can avail themselves of DART and TRE services to move from Cowboys Stadium and downtown

Dallas will be the site of the Super Bowl next January. The influx of visitors will give the city another opportunity to showcase DARTs ability to move people around a city that hopes to shed its dated reputation. The convention and visitors bureau is capitalizing on the array of mass transit services the Dallas Area Rapid Transit has to offer visitors. Interesting to see how they view transit as an addition to the quality of life. Perhaps another vision of our future for Central Texas?

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[via Dallas Morning News]

Could Cars Have Caused the Mortgage Meltdown?

Could Cars Have Caused the Mortgage Meltdown?

In yet another analysis of the causes behind the current financial crisis, it turns out that vehicle ownership and a lack of access to public transportation may be just as predictive of mortgage foreclosure rates as low credit scores and high debt-to-income ratios.

Public Transportation Takes Us There

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Alex Marshall is a Senior Fellow at The Regional Plan Association in New York City. E-mail him at alex@alexmarshall.org.

Traveling At Good Speed

York Boulevard in the Highland Park district in Los Angeles

20 August 2009 – 12:00pm

Bill Fulton consults on a boulevard in Los Angeles, and concludes that sometimes the dense, mixed-use approach is too heavy-handed, particularly when transit is lacking.

Los Angeles’s York Boulevard is a village-scale commercial strip near Occidental College.

Bill Fulton: “I was there, along with several other planners, at the invitation of Councilmember Jose Huizar, who’s thinking about doing a new plan. The trick is to maintain the eclectic character of the street – and yet upgrade it at the same time. Striking this balance won’t be easy, but we planners had better figure out how to do streets like York really well. There are lots of emerging places in California that could be as good as York’s going to be, and in many ways they represent the future of the state.”

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Source: California Planning & Development Report, August 18, 2009