REALTORS, Smart Growth and Transportation

[John Flaherty]

To: NuPTA and CTC friends,

 

The Summer 2009 edition of On Common Ground, the online magazine of the National Association of Realtors (NAR), covers a variety of transportation issues that should interest all of us, including light rail, BRT, TOD and the opportunities for developing a new national transportation strategy.  Take special note (p. 24) of the 2009 survey that NAR conducted with Transportation for America about what Americans want when it comes to transportation.

 

http://www.realtor.org/government_affairs/smart_growth/on_common_ground_summer2009

 

John

 

 

John A. Flaherty

Director of Research & Communications

Grow Smart Rhode Island

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Providence, RI  02908

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About Grow Smart

Grow Smart Rhode Island is a diverse non-profit alliance of community leaders from the business, labor, academic, environmental, housing, development and other sectors promoting sustainable and prosperous growth and development. In its eleven years of advocacy, the organization has championed a number of incentives and tools to steer future growth to revitalized urban, town and village centers and to reduce development pressures on farms, forestland and the environmentally fragile areas of our coastline. Grow Smart Rhode Island's work has been honored with awards from the U.S. EPA, the RI Chapter of the American Planning Association, Rhode Island Housing, Preserve Rhode Island, the Providence Preservation Society, the Environmental Business Council of New England and the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission. Get our free monthly e-newsletter HERE.

 

[Jonathan Harris]

This report indicates that our job should be easy. It seems as though the public is with us. Now if we could just bring the politicians along.

 

I always find it interesting how often the desire for trains out paces the desire for buses. I would love to see some data on the emotions behind the numbers. Anyone?

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Jonathan L. Harris
Design and Planning, LEED-AP
116 Edgehill Road
Providence, RI 02906
(401) 837-6570