Comments on: TOD Got Street Cred Yo

By: The Value Of Doomers | hugeasscity

The Value Of Doomers | hugeasscity — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:23:05 +0000

[...] case, compact communities with access to high quality transit become all the more valuable an an asset. In short, “location efficiency” [...]

By: Hey you who are reading this: Who are you, and do you vote? | hugeasscity

Hey you who are reading this: Who are you, and do you vote? | hugeasscity — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:58:29 +0000

[...] My most difficult choice. But this bit from the Stranger’s endorsement hit me right where I live: He has dozens of smart ideas, including rewriting neighborhood plans to accommodate more density, [...]

By: A Criminally Unfair, One-Sided, Amateur Blog-Style Q&A With (Or Without) David Miller | hugeasscity

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:31:19 +0000

[...] take.” Here you are no doubt referring to the “TOD bill,” but sorry David, HB 1490 as proposed did not mandate precisely where the density would go, other than within a half-mile [...]

By: Coming To Othello Station: The Future | hugeasscity

Coming To Othello Station: The Future | hugeasscity — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:35:23 +0000

[...] of economics and context. All in all, the Othello projects are exactly what we need to get TOD on the ground and start reaping the benefits of our investment in light [...]

By: dan bertolet

dan bertolet — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:07:02 +0000

Spencer@4,12:
http://hugeasscity.com/2008/06/17/the-burden-of-density-advocates/

Al Gore won the Nobel Prize. The environmental benefits of compact development have been widely covered in the mainstream media:
http://hugeasscity.com/2008/01/07/mainstream-time-magazine-leed-nd/

How severe does a crisis have to get before the responsibility for understanding what’s going on falls on the individual? And how severe does a crisis have to get before the people who do understand it have no choice but to take action, regardless of whether or not everyone else has bothered to figure out what’s going on?

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:53:17 +0000

Consider studying up on TOD

http://www.tcrponline.org/bin/publications.pl?category=14

http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=9549

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:44:29 +0000

@10
I think the combination of levity and seriousness here is refreshing.

By: spencer

spencer — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:43:17 +0000

Beal,

I totally get where you are coming from and I almost changed my mind until your second post. What a jacka$$ you are for stooping to a personal assumptive attack. I certainly understand where these bills are coming from. I support what they do in my work and my off time but it is hard for me to jump on the band wagon when people like you are so quick to plunge a dagger to the neck of any detractor. You should take applause for making my point so utterly clear. You assumptive nature and judgmental comments only make your arguments weaker. By marginalizing people you only reduce your own credibility.

With that said, give me one good reason why we shouldn’t be out on the streets empowering people with education to support the good things in these bills? With the support of a majority people we will never need bills like these. These great things will just happen because of their merit and will.

By: dan bertolet

dan bertolet — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:33:14 +0000

OK Max. But then I’d have to rename the entire blog, no? It’s a debate that I’ve been having with myself ever since I first decided on the name. I made a deliberate choice to make the blog informal and unpredictable, and hopefully a little less deadly boring than many planning blogs tend to be. And so I created a monster.

Oh, and people might take you a little more seriously if you used your full name. Same goes for the rest of you wimpy anonymous commenters!

By: max

max — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:38:43 +0000

People would take this blog much more seriously if you didn’t act like it was a joke 3/4 of the time. A joke from 2001 at that.