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Ha! Catos OToole to Detroit: Dont Repeat Portland and Denvers Mistakes
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Ha! Catos OToole to Detroit: Dont Repeat Portland and Denvers Mistakes
by Angie Schmitt
December 9, 2011
DC Streets Blog
http://dc.streetsblog.org/2011/12/09/ha-catos-otoole-to-
detroit-dont-repeat-portland-and-denvers-mistakes/
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The Cato Institutes resident transportation pundit Randal OToole is best
appreciated as a comedian.
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A forestry expert with a penchant for 19th Century neckwear, OTooles
latest gag, published in The Michigan View, warns that Detroit is poised
to repeat the transportation mistakes of get this Portland and Denver.
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Let that sink in for a moment. OToole is warning Detroit that if the city
invests in light rail it could turn out like two of the healthiest, most
attractive cities in the country. Heaven forbid.
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Light rail is sooo last century, says OToole (an expert in prior
centuries, as you can tell from his tie). Residents of metro areas keep on
voting to tax themselves and build light rail, he continues, only because
of a giant hoax perpetrated on the taxpayers of the United States.
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He illustrates his point with what is no doubt one of the countrys biggest
transit oriented development success stories: Portland. Portland! Where
the streetcar led to billions of dollars being invested in TOD, according
to the New York Times.
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This is a direct quote from OToole: When Portland opened its first
light-rail line in 1986, planners rezoned the areas around each station
for high-density, transit-oriented development. Ten years later, planners
admitted that not one single such development had been built.
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See? Its funny because OToole doesnt actually name any Portland planners
who said the citys light rail system had not generated transit oriented
development. But the planners at Tri-Met, which runs the light rail
system, estimate that it has spurred $10 billion in TOD investment.
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OToole continues: When asked why they didnt build around the light-rail
stations, developers said there was no demand for such developments.
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Which developers would that be, exactly? Not the ones who built the
Crossings, Russellville Commons, or North Main Village.
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A Streetcar Named Development
By KEITH SCHNEIDER
Published: October 24, 2007
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/
automobiles/autospecial/24streetcar.html
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THE writer E. B. White once remarked in the 1930s that streetcars were
brilliantly obsolete. But in Portland, Ore., and nearly a dozen other
American cities, the whine of electric streetcar motors is fast becoming a
symbol of a thriving city center.
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Dallas opened a 2.8-mile line in 1989, and since then eight cities have
built new streetcar lines, including Memphis, Little Rock, San Francisco
and Tampa, all serving growing numbers of riders using restored cars or
replicas.
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Portland, which opened the first section of what is now an eight-mile loop
in 2001, was the first to use modern streetcars, designed and built in the
Czech Republic.
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A new 2.6-mile streetcar line is scheduled to open in Seattle in December;
a new line is to open in Washington in 2009; and a four-mile line is to
begin operating in Tucson in December 2010. Miami, Columbus, Cincinnati,
Phoenix, Missoula, Grand Rapids and some 70 other American cities are
studying the feasibility of opening lines, according to Reconnecting
America, a national nonprofit transit research group in Oakland, Calif.
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Not since the turn of the 20th century, when metropolitan regions built
elegant urban-rail networks, which were later dismantled, have streetcars
generated such intense interest, according to the American Public
Transportation Association, a Washington trade group.
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Much of the reason lies in what happened after Portland decided that a
streetcar, operating on fixed tracks and sharing the right of way with
cars, was not only a new option for getting from one end of town to the
other, but also a boon to developers as a new rail corridor for building
homes and offices downtown. The Portland region also has a 44-mile network
of light-rail lines, using faster and larger cars, that runs through the
center of the city to the eastern and western suburbs. An 8.3-mile, $575.7
million extension is under way, scheduled to open in 2009.
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All I can say is that the stars lined up the right way for Portland, said
John Carroll, a local home builder who is on a committee that oversees the
streetcars. The Portland streetcar demonstrated that the city was serious
about developing downtown at a time when the core was much quieter than it
is now. Our last seven or eight projects have been within a block, block
and half of the streetcar line.
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